Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter Issue 239: Wednesday - June 18, 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 f or my new subscribers to get 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 reinf orce 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, Michae l 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. Michael, "I shot a 79 on Saturday and followed it up with an 82 in my Member-Guest tournament on Sunday – we won first place!
"I began the tournament by shanking my very first drive about 40 yards into the heavy rough. I then went from rough to rough and ended with a 7 on the first hole. But, using your keys of staying in the present and forgetting about the past, I stepped up to the second tee and hit a beautiful shot. Similarly, I was also able to recover without any lingering effects from a couple of three putts as well. "Your tips have been incredibly helpful and I look forwa rd to reading your book in its entirety as well as using the CD on the way to the course! I can’t wait to learn your entire program!" -Bill Garden
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 :-) < p class=style1>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY "Success or Disappointment" If you want to have more success in golf, it is important to inoculate your mind to be free of disappointment. Webster defines disappoint as "to fail to meet the expectation or hope of." Since it is impossible to hit a good shot everytime and golf courses are designed to challenge even the best golfers, how does a golfer keep from becoming disappointed without loweri ng his or her expectations? It is done by changing your mindset and type of goals. The vast majority of golfers judge themselves by the scores they shoot. How often do you play a round of golf and feel totally satisfied that you shot the lowest score possible that day for your level of play? More than likely, you probably felt you could have shot a lower score if only your putt didn’t lip out or hit a spike mark, the wind didn’t cause your ball to land in the bunker or the water, your perfect shot down the middle of the fairway didn’t land in a divot, et cetera. So you went home disappointed because your score didn’t reflect what could have been. What is even worse is that you were disappointed with some of your shots and putts during that round. We all know that we play at our best when we feel good about ourselves. The only way to get out of the trap of trying to play well when you are disappointed is to change your outcome goal of scoring and become totally process oriented. An excellent definition of success is the progressive realization of a worth while goal. If your goal is to learn and improve from the feedback you receive each time you hit, chip or putt the ball, you can eliminate the concept of disappointment from your mindset. Let’s narrow our discussion and focus solely on your attitude after each shot you take during a r ound of golf. I’ll make a friendly wager that after a good shot, you tend to feel good and after a bad shot, you tend to feel bad. I’ll make another friendly wager that when you make a good shot and feel good, your chances of making another good shot are higher than when you feel bad about yourself or your last shot. Do I have any takers on these bets? Now, let me ask you question. Is it easier to control the outcome everytime you step up to the ball or to control your attitude before and after each golf shot you take? The obvious answer is that it should be easier to control your attitude since it is impossible for even Tiger Woods to make all of his shots. Since a good attitude increases the probability of m aking good shots, the logical conclusion is that it is much more productive to focus on the process of always maintaining a good attitude than to focus on the outcome of your shots, which you cannot control. If you take two golfers of equal talent, I’ll make you another friendly wager that the one who has and maintains the better attitude will win many more times than he will lose to the other golfer who allows himself to be disappointed by his outcomes. Now, I’ll make one last wager with you. No matter what your talent level is, if you train your mind to focus on improving your attitude no matter what happens when you hit the ball, your scores will fall and you will not be disappointed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. I f 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 mind to optimize your chemistry so you can play in the zone."
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