RSS FeedI had to take a 4 day hiatus, thank the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. I really hope everyone has had a chanced to watch just to see how truly beautiful my home province of British Columbia is. Now onto my post for today.
Every now and then we hit a bad shot! How we deal with can help us play better or worse, it’s up to you to decide. It took me YEARS to figure out that there is nothing we can do to change the past and once that happened, it helped my game. After hitting a bad shot I would get frustrated and the same can be said for when I would catch a bad break after executing a shot the way I wanted. I’m sure I’m not alone on this and that some of you react the same. Doing this only hurts us as we prepare to hit the next shot. Our minds are busy thinking about what could have been instead of what is. We must except the fact the we have hit bad shot and move forward because there is nothing we can do to change the past.
I am reading a book called the ‘Power of Now’ by Eckhart Toole because in every day life, my mind is always in the past or the future instead of being in the now! I love to travel and play golf and all I think about is traveling the globe playing golf. This takes my mind away from the present and I lose motivation and sight of what it is I need to achieve to make my dream come true. This relates perfectly to what I talk about when learning to forget about the previous shot. We want to get the ball in the hole in the lowest amount of strokes possible but we need to focus on how we want to do that.
After a bad shot, laugh it off right there and once you start to move towards your next shot, draw your minds attention to the preparation needed for the next shot.
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