David K. Payne

The Rules Give You a Way Forward
In golf, if your ball is unplayable, the game does not end.

There are rules.

You may have to take a penalty.
You may have to move the ball.
You may have to go back to where you hit the last shot and try again.

But the point is this:

There is still a way to keep playing.

Life has rules too.

Bad choices have consequences.
Loss has consequences.
Failure has consequences.

But consequences are not always the end of the story.

Sometimes the rule, the penalty, or the hard truth becomes the thing that gives us a path forward.

The game gives you a way to keep playing, but it does not let you pretend nothing happened.

The DKP Word 2026
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