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I am currently trying out this Facebook App call Networked Blogs and this post serves as a test run to see if it shows on my personal profile page.
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This is just a short little post on my latest addition to the technology inventory I’ve begun amassing. My former computer was an HP that recently began to have difficulty. My time with it ended when I brought it in for repair and was told that my particular model had a genetic defect that caused the motherboard to overheat and blow out the hard drive and video card.
I ask a bunch of people on Twitter and Facebook about what my next computer should be. The overwhelming response was a MacBook Pro. I gave in to the peer pressure and ordered one and it arrived two days ago. I am still getting used to it and haven’t yet learned about everything it can do. I suspect that won’t happen till winter time.
So far, it is no better or worse than my other PC.
I’m just happy to have something to use again so I can return to writing “Information You Can Use.”
Please leave a comment about ideas for future topics you’d like me to discuss.
I am sure we have all come across players on the course who are shall we say, are colourful at best and downright rude at worst about your game, with their language. But they are not your biggest critic are they?
No, why have to wait for someone else to randomly come along and criticise your backswing, or your putting grip when you have a ready -made ‘in house’ individual who does that for you, for free!
If other players criticised your game as regularly and as harshly as you talk your own game down, how much airtime would they get and how fast would you be pencilling their name in for the upcoming prestigious pairs tournaments?
So it begs me to ask the question, why do you allow your internal voice to run your whole golf game down at the first sight of a wayward shot? And why stop at just teasing yourself about one shot when very quickly your internal cheerleader can reel off EVERY indifferent shot you’ve ever hit before; times, dates, holes, weather conditions-so much detail at hand instantly. Tell me again how they got the job?
All the money, time and effort you spend on grooving your swing, updating your equipment and investing in coaching lessons could be spent even wiser, by sacking your poorly informed cheerleader and starting an instant recruitment programme for a new internal fan.
Perhaps you could write down the job description and post it off as soon as possible or at least before your next game.
Oh, but wait a minute. Seems there is no real need to send that off to the local recruitment agency, we all know someone who is just perfect for the job, albeit with a little re-training first.
In order to get to a place where you can experience golf at a level which is closer to your potential, is it not about time you took your internal cheerleader to one side and reminded him/her of their true responsibility. Remind them, that in the past, they may have been somewhat disloyal and it needs to stop now or they are out of a job. You are in charge of your own game so ensure everyone you recruit is on your side, constantly.
So next time you are out on the course, on the range or even travelling to the club for a game, keep an ear open for this internal individual. If they are supportive, accepting, willing to learn and ready to explore all the opportunities that lie ahead, then they are in. If they are harsh, sneaky, underhand and sound like a broken record, well, you know what you have to do.
Make your internal cheerleader a clean talking, fun loving, purposeful and faithful friend. Together, you will have a golfing career that is a job worth keeping. Mind your language and experience how your language can manage your mind.
Andy Morrison, Golf Mindset Coach. www.progolfmindcoach.co.uk Free Report waiting for you!
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And so I prepare myself to be shot down in flames, which is great because it means you the reader, will be bringing new insights with you.
There’s no such thing as an ideal golf game…..daring statement to make?
Perhaps! However for me, even in a world where golf instruction worldwide promises you the IDEAL golf swing ( either in the form of following 5 simple steps, signing up to elaborate DVD or audio programmes, or indeed downloading 100+ videos ) pursuit of an ideal golf swing will forever be a false claim.
Because here’s how it seems to me until now. I’m guessing we all understand what the horizon is; that ‘line’ where sky meets land. You’ll also know that it doesn’t exist in the real world, it’s merely a mental frame set up in our heads to help us make sense of that place in the distance. If you doubt that’s true, walk to it and tell me when you get there! These mental frames, or ‘Ideals’, are a necessary part of our thoughts which help us make sense of the world around us and in that respect, are very much an asset.
BUT, in gauging progress and forming opinions as a result, it’s a pretty lame idea! Just as you can never walk to the horizon, so can you never attain an ideal golf swing.
Sure you can have a very effective swing, a swing which gets you great results and bring much reward, but it will never be ideal. And yet so many players find themselves wrapped up in the idea of achieving that distant dream. Their language reflects the belief whenever they describe their current work in progress. ‘Ideally, I need the swing to look like X’ or ‘my ideal score is to shoot Y’. More damaging is the fact that no matter what achievement s are secured, if it’s not ‘ideal’, constant self judgement can play out as we focus on the gap between what we are and what we believe to be ideal. That gap will always be there, just like the distance to the horizon, no matter how far we walk.
As a mental performance coach, I remind my players that it’s great to have well formed goals, standards to aspire to and to look for ways to improve your current skills base. What isn’t so effective is to set up goals using an ideal as the destination and then striving to get there. You’ll forever come up short in your expectation, opening the door for frustration and disappointment to flourish.
So if you are a reader who believes you’ll be happy when you’ve hit the ideal score or swing the ideal way, perhaps it’s time to revisit your goals and assess where you are, rather than where you want to be.
Is this posting ideal, certainly not, is it good based on my current skill level, I believe so. Will I have improved as a result of constructing this….certainly that’s possible.
So to come full circle, I believe that the ideal golf game remains just an elusive idea. Having said that, for all of you who have attained the ideal game, I’d be delighted to hear your thoughts!
Send any thoughts/feedback to info@progolfmindcoach.co.uk.
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I am currently in the process of creating a section on my forum where I can import rss feeds and I’m wondering if there are any golf pros that would like to have their blog feed display in another venue to increase exposure and ranking.
let me know if you are interested and I can fill you in on the the details. If you are the kind of person that goes and looks at a bunch of different blogs, this would give all of us a single place we could go to read them all.
John
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