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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 258



Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 258: Wednesday - July 22, 2009

Hi Determined Golfer,

Please do me a major favor by telling your golfing buddies and golf instructor how "The Mental Keys" are helping you to lower your score,

Thanks for helping out,

Michael Anthony.

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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.

GOLFERS LOCKER ROOM BULLETIN BOARD

Hi Mike,

" I am JUST LOVING your book and I play the CD on my way to and from work everyday. I haven't made much improvement in my score yet (only been about 2 weeks) but I HAVE learned to relax, clear my mind and use only my gut reaction for each shot and most of all KEEP my eye on the ball and forget about the hazards and the pin.

"Your tips are terrific. I haven't finished the mental keys book yet but HAD to lend it to a friend who is trying to pass the exam to become a golf pro. I think it will help him tremendously.

"Thanks for your help,"

Nancy

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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 :-)

 

MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"Anger or Instant Amnesia?"

While in his prime, Seve Ballesteros was asked during an interview how he keeps from getting angry when he misses a putt or shot. He replied, "Instant amnesia." Instead of getting and remaining angry, Seve merely forgot about it, and went right back to the business of playing golf.

Unfortunately, most golfers get upset or angry when things don't go as they wish while playing a round of golf. To compound matters, golfers tend to carry their anger for several holes or even the entire round after they have made a mistake or missed a putt or shot. Does this happen to you?

It is important to understand that your anger adversely affects your brain's chemistry and performance. If you allow anger to be a part of your emotional make-up, your stroke mechanics and mental clarity will suffer as a result. Your anger will cost you extra strokes.

Here is a game plan for reducing and hopefully eliminating anger. First, as soon as you become aware that you are angry, stop and acknowledge that you are upset. Do not suppress your anger or rationalize that you have a right to be upset because your anger will build and fester. Your performance will continue to suffer as a result.

After acknowledging you are angry, realize that you are merely reacting to a fact and have a choice how to respond emotionally. You can continue to be upset or you can decide to release your anger. The obvious choice is to regain control of your composure so you can play better.

Here is an excellent method for releasing anger. While taking ten deep breaths and exhaling slowly after each breath, talk to yourself. Tell yourself that you refuse to let a fact upset you no matter how unfair or unjust the fact may be. Realize that facts are merely facts!

You may not be able to control the facts, but you can control your emotional response to them. Once you are calm and have a smile on your face, get back into the present and focus on your next shot.

If you train yourself to have instant amnesia, you will become a better golfer and shoot lower scores.

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Super Bonus... When you order my book and CD, you will receive my Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tips book, 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
and Get 50% OFF Your Order for Helping Out

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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.


"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 2009 by Michael Anthony. All rights reserved.


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Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 257



Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 257: Tuesday - July 7, 2009

Hi Determined Golfer,

If "The Mental Keys" are helping you to lower your score, please tell your golfing buddies and golf instructor.

Thanks for helping out,

Michael Anthony.

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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.

GOLFERS LOCKER ROOM BULLETIN BOARD

Hello Mike,

"I purchased the mental keys last spring and have really improved my mental game.

"As for my progress (in case you may be wondering) I have really improved this year with issues like first tee shots, short putts, ect. In fact, I was able to win my clubs President's Cup (one of our majors) this summer in a playoff with about 50 people watching (and betting on me). I kept my cool and kept my body and arms relaxed. I concentrated on the act of making a good rhythmic swing and expected to hit good shots. Just like you said.

"By the way, I have found it a huge help when I am nervous to take a few slow, deep breaths. This breathing has been very important for me to sort of 'talk myself down'. Once I have take a few breaths, I think about the mental keys. I remind myself that this is only a game (not life and death which is what it feels like) and I focus on making a good swing with relaxed hands are arms. I now expect a good result, even under pressure. The results are just facts for me now and I don't react emotionally to the facts. Actually, when I won the event I didn't even feel too excited -- it was just another fact!

"For many years I thought it would be impossible for me to hit great shots under pressure. I just figured that I am not the type of person who can play tournament golf and therefore quit my college golf team and gave up my scholarship. I wish I had your book back then."

-David Gray

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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 :-)

 

MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"Desire, Belief and Patience"

What do desire, belief and patience have in common? They are all important ingredients of success in anything that you do or try to accomplish. If you want to shoot lower scores, take an honest look at the above recipe to see what you could be doing better.

Let's start with desire. How strong is your desire to lower your score? On a scale of one to ten, with ten being the highest, if you are not doing everything under your control to improve your golf, your desire is less than a ten. That's OK as long as you realize that your success will be limited according to the actions you are or are not taking.

If you claim to desire scores lower than what you are willing to work for, you do not have a desire. You have a wish. A wish will never be strong enough to attain the scores you supposedly desire. You have two choices. Either change your goal and accept higher scores, or take more action to lower them. Why frustrate yourself if you only have a wish and not a strong desire?

If you truly have a desire and are backing it up with positive thoughts and actions, you have to believe that your efforts will pay off in the end. Otherwise, why do the work? It is important to believe in the processes that you are working on to improve. If you have selected legitimate processes that will result in lower scores, don't keep looking over your shoulder at your scores until you have mastered the process.

Always keep in mind that the outcome is merely a by-product of the process. Keep focusing on improving the process until your lower scores become a reality. What happens in many cases is the golfer gives up on the process before the results appear, and blames it on the process not working. Rarely does the golfer blame himself for not working the process.

Instead of always looking for new techniques, training devices or equipment to try out in the hope of lowering your score, have patience and master what you are working on. When you plant a seed in a garden, you don't dig it up before it has a chance to grow and bloom. Patience is a very important part of the learning process and golf.

When you play golf, belief and patience work together. Before attempting any golf shot, you must totally believe that you can make the shot if everything goes right. Otherwise, change your shot selection. You must believe in your percentages of success for making the shot and have the patience to trust the process.

You won't make all of your shots, but if you are patient and believe in your ability to make your share of shots, you will be a lot more successful and accomplish your desire to shoot lower scores.

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Super Bonus... When you order my book and CD, you will receive my Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tips book, 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
and Get 50% OFF Your Order for Helping Out

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"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.


"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 2009 by Michael Anthony. All rights reserved.


***************************************

'The Mental Keys to Improve Your Golf'

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

http://www.mentalkeys.com


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