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Issue 236: Wednesday - April 16, 2008 Hi Determined Golfer, If you find this newsletter helpful, please tell your friends, associates and golf instructor. Thanks for helping out. "Keep Polishing Your Wheel" If you are new to my newsletter, welcome aboard. My mission is to help you lower your score by increasing your awareness of how your mind processes information and providing you with insights on how to improve your mental game. It is important for my new subscribers to g et up to speed as quickly as possible. If you truly desire to lower your score, read my book and listen to my CD (part one) before and (part two) after you play as well as read my mental tip newsletters. Once you have done your homework, you will have laid the foundation to have one of the best mental games around. The next step is to continue to work on improving your mental game (polish your wheel) until these insights become an instinctive part of your mental makeup. My advice to my old subscribers is to keep polishing your wheel if you want your scores to continue to fall. Since my mental tips are designed to enhance and reinforce your understanding of "The Mental Keys," keep reading them as well as rereading my book from time to time. Some of my newsletters contain new tips and others repeat past tips to refresh your tape. If you keep polishing your wheel, your scores will continue to fall. I guarantee it! Once in awhile, I send out a Golf Announcement to inform you of other golf products that will help you to polish your wheel. Please take a serious look at them. Play well and keep polishing your wheel, Michael Anthony P.S. Once you read this section "Keep Polishing Your Wheel" several times, you can skip it in future newsletters and go directly to the "Golfers Locker Room Bulletin Board" for inspiring success stories or updates from me. After several repetitions, just seeing the words "Keep Polishing Your Wheel" will automatically remind you to keep working on improving your mental game. Click for access to my private mental tip archive GOLFERS LOCKER ROOM BULLETIN BOARD I am pleased to announce that you can listen to my mental golf tips weekly at GolfSmarterTips Podcast. "I was a 12.5 handicap when I ordered your book and now I am a 6.7. My golf buddies asked me what I was doing. If I was practicing more or bought new clubs. I told them that I changed my mental attitude about the game and they all just kinda laughed and sipped their beer at the 19th hole. "One of them thought for a minute and told me, 'You are right. You are a different golfer. You never get mad at yourself and cuss anymore. You shake your head a few times and then move on and hit the next shot. Usually it goes right at the pin.' He did not ask then, but he later asked me what book I had ordered. "Afterwards I started analyzing what I was doing different and realized that it was your book that had changed my attitude about the game. Before I was always worried hole to hole about who was winning and whether or not I had won the last hole. If I lost the last hole and made a bad shot, it would drag me down for two or three holes. "Now I make the bad shot and move on to the next one. I try to learn from the bad one as you indicate in your book, but I do not let it affect my attitude or my approach to the next shot. "Until my friends pointed it out to me, I had not realized exactly how much of your boo k and email tips had sunk in and how much they were helping me in my approach to the game." -Bill ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It makes my day when you email me your success stories or ask for my help after you have read my book and listened to my CD. Don't be shy. It is always good to share positive feedback with your fellow golfers. Your generosity in sharing your experiences with others will help inspire them to keep polishing their wheel and help you sink an extra putt or two :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY "Playing in the Present" One of the hardest things to communicate to a golfer is the importance of changing their world view from outcome thinking to process thinking because they have been conditioned by society from birth to judge their success from their outcome results. It takes a leap of faith to trust that perfecting the process -- which includes staying in the present and not thinking -- will produce the results you are str iving to achieve. It's like trying to explain the Zen koan of "the sound of one hand clapping" used to train Zen Buddhist monks to abandon ultimate dependence on reason and force them into gaining sudden intuititive enlightenment. Would you like to increase your concentration and keep from losing your focus during a round of golf? Would you like to play without fear or being nervous? Would you like to eliminate mental mistakes and mental collapses when you have the lead? Of course you would. By training your mind to play in the present, you greatly increase your ability to do so. Playing in the present is exactly what it is: the present. You are in the present when you are without any thoughts or concerns about the past or future. Nothing else exists except the present and the truth of your circumstances. Your past brought you into the present and how well you do in the present will create your future. Any thoughts about the past or future take you out of the present and affect your ability to perform to your full potential in the moment, which is all you have. Golfers with a strong mental game realize that the present is all that they can control. They have learned to play in the present w ithout concern about the past or future outcomes. They realize the power of just being in the moment, with the full intention, and expectation to accomplish their desires, without attachment to the results. When they are at their best, they play on instinct and trust their subconscious -- or "It" -- to make it happen for them. The trick (or mental key) to being in the present is to allow yourself to learn from the feedback each shot provides, without your ego being involved in the outcome. By being honest about your present mechanical, strategic, physical and mental limitations, you will increase your awareness of what you can do to improve your present abilities. Then, it becomes a question of how strong your desire is to make the necessary changes or adjustments to improve. If you don't have the desire or time to do the work to improve, that's OK. Just make sure that you play in the present without thinking, or concern about the outcome, so you can get the most mileage from your present limitations. If you do, you will shoot lower scores. FYI - Making the Daily Affirmation a major part of your life is one of the best ways to train yourself to be in the present. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Super Bonus... When you order my book and CD, you will receive my new book Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tips, which contains 75 of my favorite mental tips. If you read a tip a day, you will be amazed at how much it will help you to keep polishing your wheel and shoot lower scores.
If you are not working on improving your mental game, you are playing golf with only half of the equipment. If you have not read The Mental Keys to Improve Your Golf, your mental game will benefit greatly by seeing the whole picture instead of just pieces contained in these mental tips. My book gives you the tools to improve your mental game. My CD Polish the Wheel makes it much easier to keep using them. "To develop a great mental game, it's critical to realize that your mental state affects the chemistry of your brain which in turn affects your ability to perform. Then, it's just a matter of reprogramming your m ind to optimize your chemistry so you can play in the zone."
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