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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 244



Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 244: Tuesday - September 22, 2008


Hi Determined Golfer,

If you find this newsletter helpful, please tell your friends, associates and golf instructor. Thanks for helping out.

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"Keep Polishing Your Wheel"

If you are new to my newsletter, welcome aboard. Please read "Keep Polishing Your Wheel" at the end of this newsletter.

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GOLFERS LOCKER ROOM BULLETIN BOARD

I am pleased to announce that you can listen to my mental golf tips weekly at GolfSmarterTips Podcast.

Hi Michael,

"I thought I would drop you a line and let you know how I am going using "The Metal Keys."

I have been frustrated with my golf over the past year. I came in from 14
to 9 in a matter of months after I gave Cricket up and concentrated on
golf. For 12 months I have been unable to move from 9 handicap. I have read "Golf is not a game of perfect." "Eye on the Ball Mind in the Game." "Think like Tiger," and a number of other self-help books to go to the next level and get to low single figures.

"All the books I have read about self-help and how to improve the mental game for golf never explained it in the way you do. I received your book "The Mental Keys" and CD,10 days ago, and have read the book and listened to the CD a number of times.

"On the weekend was the first round I have played using your play in the moment, and focus on the process method. I did not get the 4-step process correct each time, but did play in the moment about 80% of the time.

"I thought about the result a couple of times, but caught myself and refocused on the process. I missed a couple of putts. As I was doing my process, one of the members of my group said you have made every put from this length today, the put is in. I lost focus and missed it it. No matter I thought, and did not let this get me down. I went to the next hole, and made a 15 footer for par.

"Only using the process correctly 80% of the time, I shot 75 net 65 and won by 3 shots. New handicap 8.9 down from 10.1. This is all due to using "The Mental Keys" and playing in the present, and doing my process with out focusing on the result.

"I would like to say thanks. This is the first Mental improvement book and CD that has given me the knowledge I need to feel confident that if I follow the process, I will achieve my goals and succeed."

Thanks,

Niven Bawden

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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 :-)

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MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"Relaxed and Poised"

One of the keys to playing well is the ability to relax and play without stress and tension. Once you are relaxed, the key to playing at your best is your ability to become poised to enter the zone. This is quite an undertaking for the average golfer, but poise under pressure is what all great golfers have in common. This trance like state is what they love and live for.

Unfortunately, many golfers find it hard to relax because they are too stressed out trying to play well and shoot a low score. Some golfers who can relax complain that it is hard to play well because they are too relaxed. That's because they don't take the next step and get poised before executing their shot.

Let's quickly review the four-step routine in "The Mental Keys"; 1) feedback response, 2) relax, 3) preparation and 4) instinctive execution. Once you make your shot whether it was good or bad, learn from the feedback. Since it's over and is now just history, take the time to clear your mind and relax before you prepare for your next shot.

Now that you are relaxed, it's time to prepare for the shot you're facing. First, you have to take in all of the inputs necessary for your mind to calculate the requirements to execute the shot at hand. Then, it is time to become poised so you can prepare your mind and body to execute while in the zone, which is when you play at your best.

So how do you become poised? The answer to this question is the key to excellence in golf and life. Once you are relaxed and have taken in the inputs, you focus intently on your target expecting to hit it without any concern about the outcome. While doing this, slow down and take your time. It's similar to putting yourself into a trance like state of mind. By making this practice the most important part of your preshot routine, you will start to get a feel for what is it like to be poised and ready to execute in the zone.

You will be in the present without any thoughts about the past or future. You will not have a care in the world except your total focus on your target. Your mind will have its full intention on hitting the target without being attached to achieving the outcome. Your brain's chemistry will be at its optimum and you will be poised to execute your shot instinctively.

It takes time and effort to train yourself to become poised. Once you master this art, your game will never be the same because you will fully realize that controlling your state of mind is the key to increasing your ability and probability of making the shot. (You will benefit greatly by rereading my previous tip "Trust Your Triangle" in my member archive.)

So if you want to lower your score, forget about scoring. Focus on becoming relaxed and poised so your subconscious can do the work for you. This is what great players do. If you doubt this, just ask Jack, Arnold or Tiger.

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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.

super bonus

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 mind to optimize your chemistry so you can play in the zone."
- Michael Anthony

Click Now to Lower Your Score

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"Keep Polishing Your Wheel"

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 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 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. 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


"The Mental Keys to Improve Your Golf"

Michael Anthony
P.O. Box 35
Danville, CA 94526

(925) 855-1388
mike@mentalkeys.com

www.mentalkeys.com

© Copyright 2008 by Michael Anthony. All rights reserved.


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Thursday, September 4, 2008

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 243



Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 243: Thursday - September 4, 2008


Hi Determined Golfer,

If you find this newsletter helpful, please tell your friends, associates and golf instructor. Thanks for helping out.

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"Keep Polishing Your Wheel"

If you are new to my newsletter, welcome aboard. Please read "Keep Polishing Your Wheel" at the end of this newsletter.

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GOLFERS LOCKER ROOM BULLETIN BOARD

I am pleased to announce that you can listen to my mental golf tips weekly at GolfSmarterTips Podcast.

Hi Michael,

"You were generous and kind enough to speak with me on the telephone. You encouraged me to more fully embrace "The Mental Keys" daily affirmation, and suggested that I focus a bit on tracks 6, 7, and 11 on your CD.

"I have been making the (now MY) daily affirmation a part of every day and have listened to the tracks that you suggested over and over again. In addition, I have made a couple of other changes to my normal routine while playing golf. When I started listening to your CD and reading your book, I stopped keeping track of my score from hole to hole. I would however add up my score after playing nine holes before making the turn. It seems that I was sabotaging my game by doing so... If I was having a good round, my subconscious mind seemed to take over and make the appropriate corrections to insure that I played in the mid to high 80's where I have been stuck (my comfort zone).

"Today, I made an explicit decision to not add up my score after the first nine - I knew of course that I had a good round going, but I did not inform my subconscious mind by adding up the numbers. Instead, I just kept playing one shot at a time while focusing on the process of making each shot. This I hope will assist in reprogramming my tape to a new scoring comfort zone.

"Today, I shot 78 (par 71 course) breaking 80 for the first time in six months. I had only broke 80 three times before, and have been stuck in the mid 80's all this year (except for an occasional excursion into the low 90's).

"Thank you, Michael for helping me to get and stay focused, I am eager to continue Polishing My Wheel. My handicap index has dropped by two strokes in the past two weeks since we spoke - all of my rounds since that conversation have been less than 85 and most below 83."

-Jeff Winders

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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 :-)

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MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"Playing in the Present"

The hardest thing to communicate to a golfer is the importance of changing their world view from outcome to process thinking because they have been conditioned from birth by society to judge their success from their 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 one is striving 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 and being nervous? Would you like to eliminate mental mistakes and mental collapses when you have the lead, or are shooting a great round? Of course, you would. By training your mind to play in the present without concern of the outcome, 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.

Explaining the present is the easy part. The hard part is to fully REALIZE that the present is the only thing that matters because it is the only thing that exists. Everything else is just a fairy tale that exists in your imagination or desires.

Golfers with a strong mental game realize that the present is all that they can control. They have learned to play in the present without 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 to make it happen for them.

Learning to play in the present on instinct requires time and effort. That is why experience is such a priceless commodity. Because when all else fails, the truth emerges from one's experiences if you are honest with yourself. By training your mind to play in the present, you can shorten the time required to experience the power of being free to play on instinct and in the zone. Unfortunately, many golfers never learn to stop dwelling on their past and future outcomes. How about you?

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 Mental Keys" Daily Affirmation a major part of your life is one of the best ways to train yourself to be in the present.

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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.

super bonus

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 mind to optimize your chemistry so you can play in the zone."
- Michael Anthony

Click Now to Lower Your Score

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"Keep Polishing Your Wheel"

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 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 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. 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


"The Mental Keys to Improve Your Golf"

Michael Anthony
P.O. Box 35
Danville, CA 94526

(925) 855-1388
mike@mentalkeys.com

www.mentalkeys.com

© Copyright 2008 by Michael Anthony. All rights reserved.


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'The Mental Keys to Improve Your Golf'

Michael Anthony
P.O. Box 35
Danville, CA 94526

http://www.mentalkeys.com


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