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| Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter Issue 261: Tuesday - September 29, 2009 Hi Determined Golfer, Please do me a major favor, and tell your golfing buddies and golf instructor how "The Mental Keys" are helping you to lower your score, Michael Anthony. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "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! "My name is Tim Z.... I am a Class A PGA Head Professional. "Being the son of a Class A PGA Professional almost assured that I would be a decent player, if I had any desire at all. I played college golf (made All Conference my senior year) and when it came time to try Tour Q school, I just didn’t think I had the goods. "Loving the game as I do, I decided to follow in my father’s footsteps and become a Club Professional. I have never regretted that decision, but now that I’m 49 and counting, I am considering taking a shot at Champions Tour Q school. "I have used the Mental Keys (book and CD) since January of 2002. (I’ve got an autographed copy of your book!) During that time I have won numerous Pro – Ams, made three holes in one, and won PGA Chapter Player of the Year in’04,’05,’06,’07, & ’08. I finished second the standings this year, losing by only a few points; points I lost while thinking of the outcome during rounds instead of focusing on the process of each and every shot. "I have qualified and played in several Nationwide (Hogan, Nike, Buy.com) tour events through the Section, and it is there that this phenomenon seems most likely to manifest itself, although as I related earlier, it cropped up during quite a few tournament rounds this year. "I listen to the CD religiously…both before and after rounds…and I don’t hide from bad rounds. ( I just don’t like them!) I have reread the book many, many times. The daily affirmation evolved into my own daily practice of prayer and meditation. I know I’m on the right track; my life and game are much more satisfying. "Qualifying for the Champions Tour is my new outcome goal…do I just need to keep Polishing the Wheel until I can do it (stay in the present) every single shot, or am I overlooking something? I’m sure you don’t have enough of my information to give me “the answer”, but how would you approach a player who had “it”, lost “it” and needs “it” back pretty quickly!! "I know I have all the shots necessary to compete and win, so how do I develop unwavering trust? Pretty simple process I’m sure! Thank you for your time and The Mental Keys!!" After a phone conversation with Tim, he agreed that his thinking about the outcome was taking him out of his game. He agreed to stop thinking about the outcome, and to trust the process. A day later I got the following email from Tim. "After we hung up I played two balls on a 210 yd par 3 and 2 balls on a 543 yd par 5. My score was 2-2-4-3!!!!! I can do this." Thank you so much, TZ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 "Thinkin Is Stinkin" What are you thinking about when you are performing at your best in anything you do? If you are honest with yourself, you will realize that the answer is always the same. You are not thinking. You are operating on instinct! So how do you train your mind to stop thinking in order to perform on instinct? You do it in the four stages of learning which are the unconscious incompetent, the conscious incompetent, the conscious competent, and the subconscious competent. When you start learning a new skill, you are an unconscious competent. You are not even aware of what you are doing wrong. Once you begin to become aware of what you are doing wrong, you move up to the stage of being a conscious incompetent. Through practice and lots of mistakes, you gradually become proficient at your new skill. You know what you are doing and you can do it well. Congratulations, you are now a conscious competent and ready for the final stage of peak performance or being in the 'zone' as a subconscious competent. This is the tricky part because a subconscious competent performs without thinking or having concern about the outcome. It’s a catch 22. If you want the outcome, you can’t have it because it will bring you back into thinking about the results. If you don’t care about the outcome, you can have it because you mind is free to perform without fear of failure. Once you become a subconscious competent, what keeps you from remaining there is that you forget what got you there in the first place. In order to become a conscious competent, you gave yourself permission to fail over and over until you got it right. Now, that you are competent you expect yourself to be perfect and never fail or make a mistake. Well, it isn’t going to happen, especially in golf. Golf is such a precision sport that it is mechanically impossible to repeatedly strike the ball perfect every time. Without giving yourself permission to fail, failure to hit a good shot will pull you out of the zone so fast it will make your head spin. What is worse, it will make you start thinking about what went wrong and keep you from getting back into the zone. If you dwell on your failure long enough, you will start pressing and find yourself back at stage one of being an unconscious incompetent. This time your incompetence will be caused by negative emotions and distorted brain chemistry that will rob your body from its natural flow and rhythm. You will not even know why your performance stinks. You have to go back to square one and give yourself permission to fail all over again. Since your skill level is very high, you may not fail very often. But, it is important to trust the process, and allow yourself the freedom to fail so you can stop thinking about the outcome. After all, thinkin is stinkin. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.
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." Click Now to Lower Your Score -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"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.
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