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Issue 243: Thursday - September 4, 2008
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. Please read "Keep Polishing Your Wheel" at the end of this newsletter. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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" 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. 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. 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 mind to optimize your chemistry so you can play in the zone." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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 © Copyright 2008 by Michael Anthony. All rights reserved. |
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