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Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 272

2010-08-10T11:18:00.001-07:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 272: Tuesday - August 10, 2010

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,

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

The comments below just came in from one of my new affiliates. Left handed golfers will love his golf products.

"Thanks Michael,

"BTW I have read through the whole book and listened to the CD now. A nice side effect is that it is helping my game as well - the whole idea of being in the moment and not thinking, but seeing the ball being hit is helping me overcome my fear of hitting the ball (not been playing a lot recently as too busy working - sad!)."

Keith Milsom
Owner
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www.anythinglefthanded.co.uk

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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

"Fear Can Not Exist In The Present"

I have been interviewed on radio talk shows around the country. Many of the hosts who have read my book "The Mental Keys" commented about my statement that fear can not exist in the present. They had never looked at fear in that light. But, they all acknowledged that the concept makes total sense.

I have consulted with athletes in many different sports from Olympic Gold Medalists to low and high handicap golfers. All of them admitted that fear was public enemy number one on their list of negative emotions. Since an athlete, golfers especially, can not deny the reality of the mind/body connection, it is easy for them to realize that fear causes their performance to diminish. They, also, readily acknowledge that when thay are performing at their best they are not thinking. They are playing on instinct.

When an athlete experiences fear, he/she is thinking about a future outcome that has not occurred. Fear about an outcome triggers adverse chemical changes in your brain, which cause your performance to deteriorate. Because of the mind/body connection fear makes it impossible to duplicate the same stroke mechanics that you have when you are relaxed.

If you think about it, fear can not exist in the present. Since you can only physically exist in the present, you only have control of the present. In the present all one can do is execute at their curent level of proficiency. How well you control the present, determines the future outcome -- good or bad. It is only when you think about a future outcome that fear enters the equation and throws off your performance.

The vast majority of individuals have spent their entire life chasing the outcome. However, you can train your mind to ignore the outcome and stay in the present by focusing on mastering the process. This is a major cultural change for anyone brought up in the Western civilization's belief system of materialism and winning. Ignoring the outcome is a huge undertaking, but it can be accomplished.

In contrast, the philosophy of Zen is based solely on being the process -- be the ball. In the Eastern culture, centuries ago, samurai warriors were highly skilled in the martial arts. To be at their best, they were trained to fight without the fear of dying. Golf is a game! Golf is not a life or death situation. So have fun and relax.

Learn to have fun on the golf course and train your mind to stay in the present. If you do, you will have less fear and your scores will fall.

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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.

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

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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.

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
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(925) 855-1388
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Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 271

2010-07-27T11:22:00.001-07:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 271: Tuesday - July 27, 2010

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,

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

Mike,

"It's been a LONG time since I've talked with you (9-10 yrs), but I'm still forwarding people to your website. I just signed up for your emails again.

"I am a Full Time Realtor in jacksonville FL now, and doing GREAT in business!! Other agents are starving, but not someone like me, who's so competitive!!! I LOVE IT!

"I don't teach Golf much anymore, but always around golfers. IN fact, I went to Las Vegas to visit my Father, and spoke to a group of 40 juniors at a First Tee there and told them about you.

"TAKE CARE!!"

Jeannette Kohlhaas

The Kohlhaas Sales Team
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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.

MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"How to Regroup -- Quickly"

What do you do when you start out slow or fast and your game falls apart? How do you regroup quickly while you are playing a round of golf before it’s too late and you end up with a higher score than you are capable of shooting?

If you don’t have a plan for regrouping quickly, here are three questions that will help you get back on track fast. First, ask yourself “What time is it?” The answer is always NOW.

If you are upset about previous bad shots, you are living in the past. If you have fear about repeating past bad shots, you are living in the future. By asking yourself “What time is it?” you are reminding yourself that you can only play in the present, which is NOW. How well you perform in the present determines how well you execute your next shot. So stop agonizing about the past and worrying about the future and realize that NOW is the only time that exists.

Once you are in the present, ask yourself “Is my glass half full or half empty?” Every shot has a probability of success of making the shot and a probability of failure of not making the shot. If you are thinking about the probability of missing your next shot, you are playing with a glass that is half empty. At this point, start focusing totally on the probability of making your next shot so you can play with a glass that is half full. See my previous tip “Half full or half empty.”

The final question to ask yourself is “Do I believe?” This question has two parts. One, do you believe that you can make the next shot if everything goes right? Two, do you believe that everything can go right? No one is a fortune teller and you don’t know what will happen, but if you BELIEVE that you can make the shot if everything goes right and BELIEVE that everything can go right, you raise your chemistry and increase the probability of making your next shot.

If you don’t BELIEVE, you are back at question one where you are not in the present or at question two where your glass is half empty.

If this is the case, make sure you have a talk with yourself and ask yourself these three questions:

What time is it?

Is my glass half full?

Do I believe?

If your answers are NOW, YES and YES, you will regroup very quickly. If not, Old Man Golf is going to have a field day and kick your butt.

Since it takes time to reprogram your tape, start asking yourself these questions NOW before your next round of golf when the battle begins on the six inch golf course between your ears. If you do, you will regroup quickly. It’s your choice.

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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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 270

2010-05-20T11:24:00.000-07:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 270: Thursday - May 20, 2010

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,

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 have been using the mental keys as described in the book and listing to the CD to and from the course each day before and after I play. It really is helping me keep my mind in the right space to play good golf.

"I represented my home course North Lakes in division 1 pennants, a match play formate for 0-9 handicap players no handicap used in the match. I won 4 & 3, and this is due to me using the 4 step routine and alway thinking my glass was half full even when I hit a bad shot and let a difficult up and down.

"Thanks for giving me the tools to improve my mental game, which is so important in match play."

-Thanks Niven

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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.

MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"What If I Miss?"

This is a continuation of my last newsletter's tip "Half Full or Half Empty?"

If you believe that your glass is half full, you will have a higher level of chemistry than if you believe that your glass is half empty. As simple as this concept sounds, it can make the difference between making the shot or missing the shot because it makes the difference between whether your chemistry is high or low.

Assuming that your risk/reward ratio favors taking the shot at hand, you raise your chemistry by focusing totally on the probability of making the shot and expecting to make it if everything goes right. That's the key. You have to focus totally on expecting to make the shot, and not even think about the probability of not making it.

Let's assume your glass was half full when you hit the ball, but you missed your target. Does your glass remain half full or does it become half empty? If you're mentally tough and realize that missed shots are a part of golf, you will keep if half full. If Old Man golf has his way, he will have you convinced that your glass is half empty before the round of golf is over.

Many golfers normally blame their mechanics when they miss a shot. Then they start making swing adjustments while they are playing. If they are not careful, they will end up changing their entire game before the round is over. Then they have to go to the driving range to find their swing.

What happens in many cases, it’s not their mechanics that were off. It was their mental state that was off because they started thinking that their glass was half empty. This changed their chemistry and caused their mechanics to be off. That’s why golfers can quickly regain their swing on the driving range before they finish hitting a bucket of balls.

Once they become relaxed and their chemistry improves, it allows their normal swing to return. Unfortunately, they go away thinking that they found their swing, instead of realizing that they found a glass that was half full.

If you know what your probability of success is and make allowances for your missed shots, you will be able to keep your glass half full when you are playing. Otherwise, you will start blaming your mechanics and make it easy for Old Man golf to ruin your day.

So the answer to the question "What if I miss?" is make sure that your glass is half full before you start changing your mechanics while you are playing.

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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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 269

2010-04-14T12:45:00.000-07:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 269: Wednesday - April 14, 2010

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,

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

"Well, I did it. I won the Golf Channel Amateur City of Las Vegas Championship!

"My friend told me about the Golf Channel Am Tour a few weeks ago. I figured that the only way I can really test myself was during competitive rounds against opponents striving for the same thing as myself. I joined the Am Tour Championship/Scratch Division and my first event was at my home course of Las Vegas National where Vic teaches.

"I opened up shooting 4 over on the front 9 recording a double bogey on #6. Once again, I stepped aside and had a little talk with myself. I thought that I was in the right mental state throughout the round as I listened to you CD on the way to the course. However, after #6, I shot even par and then something happened...I entered the "Zone". I birdied 10, 12, 15 and 17! It was if (and it probably was) my subconscious took over. I shot 72 and won the Championship Division. For me, this is and was a great accomplishment towards my goals for the year.

"Mike, thanks for the continued words of support. I know that if I was not "polishing the wheel" of the mental game and studying the Mental Keys and not "polishing" the process with Vic, I would be right where I was a year ago.

"Thanks again for everything."

-Greg

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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

"Half Full or Half Empty?"

The whole goal of the mental game is to create a mental state that optimizes your brain's chemistry, which in turn increases your ability to perform. If you have fear or doubt that you can make a golf shot, you lower your chemistry and decrease your chance of making a successful shot.

You can transform your negative emotions into positive ones by creating a mind-set that your glass is always half full. You don't want to play with a glass that is half empty. The liquid is in the middle of the glass, but there can be two different emotions to the same fact. One is positive; the other negative. It is up to you to decide if your glass is half full or half empty.

The way you create the mind-set that your glass is always half full is to look at how your probability of success influences your emotions on every golf shot you face. If you have an easy shot and you're confident that you can make it, your glass is half full. However, if it’s a very difficult shot, many golfers feel that their glass is half empty and worry about missing the shot.

A way around this up-and-down swing of emotions is to select only positive emotions when looking at your probability of making the shot. Even if it’s only 1 in 100 that you can pull the shot off, you have a choice of focusing on the 99% of not making the shot or the 1% of making the shot if everything goes right and expect everything to go right. Your only other choice is to look for a safer shot if one is available.

If you decide to go for it, you can raise your chemistry by focusing totally on the 1% probability of making the shot and expecting to make it if everything goes right. That’s the key. You have to focus totally on expecting to make the shot if everything goes right and not even think about the 99% probability of not making it.

No one is a fortune teller and you don't know what will happen. However, if you train your tape that your glass is always half full and expect to make the shot if everything goes right, you will elevate your chemistry to a very high level. As a result you will make a lot more shots playing with a glass that is half full, instead of half empty.

The nice thing about it is that it's your choice and it will reflect in 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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 268

2010-03-30T10:59:00.000-07:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 268: Tuesday - March 30, 2010

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,

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

Mike,

"The New Year is off to a decent start. I have been mentally and physically training my mind and body over the past 2 months for the upcoming 2010 season. Vic hosted a Classic Club tournament this past weekend at Las Vegas National in which I entered and posted a 79, 78. (We used persimmon woods and pre 1984 irons and putter) Overall, I was pretty pleased, but one moment stood out.

"On day 2 (Sunday) I was 6 over after 5 holes! (Cock-a-Doodle-Doo is right!) I stepped away from my group to refocus. I said to myself, "One shot at a time; Focus on the process"...

"I do not know if it was nerves or pressure, but I knew after those 6 holes I had a decision to make. And like I stated before, I went on and played one shot at a time using the four-step routine to focus on the process. In the last 12 holes, I had only one other bogey. (par 71) A year ago, I probably would of packed it in and finished with an 83 or 84.

"Once again, thanks for tips and I'll keep polishing the wheel."

-Greg

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MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"The Importance of the Mental Game"

To fully comprehend the importance of the mental game of golf, a golfer has to clearly understand what is the purpose of the mental game, and how does one achieve a great mental game?

Almost daily, more and more research studies are being released that reveal that much of human behavior, health, and performance are affected by the chemistry of the brain. If a golfer knows how to control the variables that make up their mental game, they can positively influence the chemistry of the brain, and increase their performance.

One of the keys to developing a great mental game is to clearly 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, or at your highest level of mechanical proficiency.

In this limited space I can only briefly touch on some of the mental keys that will help golfers to lower their score. Your thoughts, diet, exercise, rest, environment, and physiology affect the chemistry of your brain. While they are all important, the fastest way to lower your score is to change your thoughts from negative to positive.

The easiest way to do this is to understand that all of your thoughts have two components: facts and emotions. You may not like some of the facts that you experience during a round of golf, but it is important to realize that facts are merely facts – fair or unfair. It is even more important to become aware that it is the emotions you attach to these facts that affect your performance.

Positive emotions cause your brain to secrete beneficial chemicals that will improve your performance. Conversely, negative emotions cause your brain to secrete chemicals that adversely affect your performance. As simple as this concept sounds, it cannot be denied that you will always play better when you are positive, then when you are negative. Now you know why the mental game is so important.

All I have to do to help a golfer shoot lower scores at any level is show them how to reduce their negative emotions and increase their positive emotions. It is almost like magic and works every time if you use “The Mental Keys”.

The more you learn to master your emotions, the better you will play at any level. The more you master your mechanics, the lower you will score. It doesn't get any simpler than that.

In golf most negative emotions originate from concern of the outcome. The key to controlling your emotions is to realize that you cannot serve two masters and be effective. You can choose to be process oriented or remain concerned with the outcome.

The only purpose that the outcome has is to give you direction and feedback to make the necessary adjustments to improve your mechanical and mental games. If you train your mind to focus solely on the process of improving and do the work, it is only a matter of time until you achieve your desired outcome.

If you insist on serving two masters by being concerned with the outcome while you are trying to improve the process, you greatly diminish your chances for success.

The next time you play a round of golf, stop looking over your shoulder at your score. Instead, play one shot at a time totally in the present. If you do, I guarantee you will end up with a lower 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.

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

"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

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Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 267

2010-02-03T10:03:00.000-08:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 267: Wednesday - February 3, 2010

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,

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

Michael

"I want to thank you for your work on the mental game. It certainly improved mine. I can't say it made my scores that much lower, but I made me far more consistent.

"I've had many rounds now without any doubles and that makes a huge difference in scoring, as anybody knows. Also, every time I stand up to a shot, I believe that I can make it. I don't make them all, but I'm making more - puts, approaches and even fairway woods. It's amazing how well you can put when you believe that the put, even a long one, could go in!

"When I'm going head to head, the pressure is just in the background and doesn't affect me as much. Take a breath, focus, make a swing and see what happens. Now that's living! Er, I mean golf!"

-Rob Baker

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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.

MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"Reduce the Variables of Golf"

Golf can be a very complex game because the mechanics of a golfer's swing is not a simple thing to learn and execute instinctively. However, the more you can reduce the variables of golf, the simpler the game becomes, and the easier it is to lower your score.

Unfortunately, many golfers trying to lower their score spend most of their time and energy on buying expensive equipment or practicing without taking lessons. Besides not taking lessons and practicing, the average golfer neglects to work on improving the simpler variables that they have more control over.

Fortunately, there are three other variables that influence a golfer’s performance and score. They are 1) course management or strategy, 2) physical condition, and 3) the mental game. These variables are much simpler to control than the mechanics of the golf swing.

Course management or strategy is simply playing the golf course within your mechanical and physical limitations. Whatever level of mechanical skill you have attained, learn what your probability of success is for each club in your bag and base your shot selection according to your skill level. Don't try to be a hero unless you have a legitimate chance of making the shot. Be realistic and play within your limitations.

Being in good physical condition is very simple to control, but requires strong discipline to follow a structured stretching and exercise program. A strong flexible body makes it a lot easier to repeat a complex golf swing, especially towards the end of a round of golf, when many out-of-condition golfers are getting physically tired. It's a simple choice. Either get - and stay - in shape, or pay the consequences by shooting higher scores.

The mental game is the simplest variable to control if you know how. It requires the total realization 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 to play in the zone at your full potential.

Golf is a funny game in that it has its share of ups and downs, which vary from hole to hole and from day to day. The most important variables that you can control are your attitude and state of mind. If you control your attitude and always keep your cup half full, it's a lot easier to put up with the emotional roller coaster of golf. A positive attitude allows you to remain confident when the golf gods turn against you and gives your subconscious a chance to figure out what is happening mechanically.

If you reduce the variables, you will have more fun playing golf and shoot lower scores.

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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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 266

2010-01-06T09:26:00.000-08:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 266: Wednesday - January 6, 2010

Hi Determined Golfer,

May 2010 bring you much prosperity, and lower scores. Happy New Year.

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,

Thanks for helping out,

Michael Anthony.

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GOLFERS LOCKER ROOM BULLETIN BOARD

Mike,

"I recently started studying with Vic Wilk over at Las Vegas National. He referred the website to me as part of my first lesson, and I ordered your product immediately. I have finished "The Mental Keys" and am now on to the "Mental Golf Tips."

"I can already see an immediate change in my mental approach to the game. I think the chapters that have influenced me the most are Chapter 2, Outcome Versus Process and Chapter 10, Four-Step Routine.

"I'll keep you posted on my goals for next year."

Take care,

Greg

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"A NEW BEGINNING"

New Year's Day is special because it marks the beginning of a new year. Many individuals make New Year's resolutions to improve their lives. Unfortunately, many of these resolutions go by the wayside in only a couple of days or weeks. Are you keeping your New Year's resolutions, or didn't you even bother to make any since you haven't kept the ones you made in the past?

Whether you have or haven't, here is a powerful way to improve your life as well as your golf. Develop the mindset that every day is a new beginning for the rest of your life. Also, realize that each day you are alive is a gift you can either use or abuse. Every night before you go to sleep ask yourself if you used your gift wisely or did you just throw it away.

What happens to most of us is that we expect to wake up tomorrow and get another gift. As a result, we don't truly appreciate the limited time that we have here. Our lives are a gift and every day is precious since our days are numbered.

However, many of us waste the days given to us and don't come close to reaching our real potential. Instead of making the effort to improve, we make excuses and put off today what we can do tomorrow. Worse yet, we put off this year what we can do next year. Hence, the vicious cycle of broken New Year's resolutions and wasted opportunities to improve never ends.

Of course, there are a lot of things we are doing right. But, there are some things that each one of us could do better. So if you truly desire to improve, start living your life one day at a time. Every day do the best you can for that day. If you slip or have a bad day, wipe the slate clean before you go to sleep and make a firm intention to make better use of the gift you get tomorrow.

This mindset can be applied to your golf as well. Start playing golf one shot at a time and use the 4-step routine to learn from the feedback. Allow every golf shot to stand on its own. If you make a good shot, congratulate yourself. If not, make the necessary mechanical or mental adjustments, start fresh and don't carry any emotional baggage with you to the next shot.

Every day, like every golf shot, offers you the chance for a new beginning as long as you get up on the right side of the grass:)

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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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 265

2009-12-09T09:22:00.000-08:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 265: Wednesday - December 9, 2009

Hi Determined Golfer,

If you are looking or a gift for your golfing friends that keeps giving through out the year, give them the gift of a great mental game and lower scores. It is still time to order "The Mental Keys" for guaranteed delivery of gifts before Xmas. Order now and save 50%.

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,

Thanks for helping out,

Michael Anthony.

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"Keep Polishing Your Wheel"

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GOLFERS LOCKER ROOM BULLETIN BOARD

Hi Mike,

"Just wanted to say thanks for you help. I purchased your books and CD over the summer, and I recently won my flight (6-10 handicap) at our club championship thanks to your mental tips.

"Our club championship is one day of stroke play qualifying and three days of match play. The most harrowing feat was the final match where I had a tough time finding my swing the front nine and was four down on the eleventh tee box. I was able to stay focused on the process, instead of the results, and played the next seven holes in even par to square the match on the 18th tee.

"I birdied the 18th to win the championship. What a great feeling it was to overcome such a deficit so late in the match.

"I think if I hadn't been reading and implementing your mental tips, I would have just thrown in the towel instead of fighting on and winning like I did."

Thanks again,

Mark

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"Thoughts for the Holiday Season"

With the golf season slowing down and the Holiday Season upon us, now is a good time to take a breather, give thanks and reflect on the changes that we still need to make in our lives and the fun game of golf. If you are new to my newsletter and are anxious to read mental golf tips, there are a lot of tips in my archive to keep you busy during the holidays :-)

To those of you that have been reading my mental tip newsletters and using my book and CD, you have to realize by now that my unique mental training program WORKS for life as well as golf. The most important thing that I try to do is increase your awareness that there is a cause and effect for all of your thoughts and actions.

In the world of golf, the mind/body connection does not lie and the feedback is immediate. In the game of life, the rules are not as clear-cut and the feedback usually is much slower. The Holiday Season gives us time not only to give thanks for all of our blessings, but also to reflect on our lives and what we want to accomplish.

A good place to start is with the Thanksgiving holiday, which has already passed. However, make it a point between now and New Year’s Day to spend more time in your thoughts and prayers giving thanks for what blessings you currently have before asking for more favors or things.

It’s like the man who felt bad because he didn’t have any shoes until he met a man without any feet. Make sure that you take the time to give thanks for what you have, and smell the roses while you are still on the right side of the grass.

Have a Great Holiday Season.

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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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 264

2009-11-18T08:59:00.000-08:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 264: Wednesday - November 18, 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,

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

Michael,

"I have found your concepts really helpful in getting me prepared to play. It seems when I listen to your CD, I relax more and focus on the process. I am hoping someday I will be able to quit focusing on the outcome. (I am getting better with repetition!)"

Thanks again!

-Suzanne

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MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"HANDLING FRUSTRATIONS"

Golf can be a very frustrating game if you allow it to be. Here is a typical comment I received from an honest golfer, “I know that I get nervous when I'm having a good round then start screwing up as a result. I know I get frustrated when I'm having a bad round and it just gets worse”. Does this sound like someone you know?

Even professional golfers have their fair share of frustrations. Plus, the best golf courses are designed to be very difficult to emotionally frustrate golfers. Yes, Old Man Golf just loves to frustrate you and leave you talking or cursing to yourself. Yet, golfers can’t wait to play another round of golf. Don’t you love this game :-)

Frustration is easier to handle if you understand why it exists. It is caused by not accomplishing or getting what you want. You can reduce your frustrations by focusing on what you can achieve and then build on your successes, instead of dwelling on your failures or frustrations.

Here is a simple game plan that will reduce your frustrations. First, start by selecting only one or two things to work on at a time. Try to accomplish small goals initially. Once you can handle small goals, move on to larger ones.

Change takes time because your tape is very good at keeping you where you are. It is almost impossible to change over night, so there is no need to get frustrated. Just acknowledge that it will take time to change and take it one step at a time.

This will relieve a lot of frustration if you are honest with yourself and acknowledge your present limitations. As you gain more control over yourself and improve, you will become less frustrated and more confident in your ability to eventually succeed.

Here are some comments from one golfer who is learning to handle her frustrations. “I tried to be a hero in the crab grass and it cost me a bundle. I stayed calm, kept breathing, took the thoughts out and merely said, ‘See it, then do it.’ After I simplified things, my game was more productive and MUCH more enjoyable. Things will always get better, the steps in golf are just smaller.”

If you learn to walk before you run, you will be less frustrated and more successful in the long run.

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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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 263

2009-11-04T11:16:00.001-08:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 263: Wednesday - November 4, 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,

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

Michael,

"How are you buddy? Things are fine out my way. In fact, I've recently been named Head Coach - Women's Golf Team at Jackson Communtiy College. And that's why I'm writing you.

"I plan to have them purchase your books or maybe I'll get them and make sure the girls all get them at once. I'll need 10 books and CD's. You're going to be a big part of my team's plans.

"I know how good your stuff is. I listen to you everyday during golf season and a couple of times a week during the off season. It seems like everytime I hear you, I get something new out of it. In fact, today I took pen and paper to you and listened to both sides. It's amazing.

"I'll keep in touch with you as we'll make the Mental Keys as much a part of our game as golf balls."

All my best,

Mark Jednak

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MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"You Have to Believe"

I would like to share an email correspondence about a question I received. You will find the following helpful in learning to trust the process.

"Michael, I have been using your mental keys for a while now, and combined with some focused practice, I am beginning to get back to my best playing. My confidence has returned and I am more focused on the "right" things. I have a question regarding how to deal with the days when I "don't have it".

"OK, so here's the question. I find that I can be process oriented and accept bad shots most of the time, but when it goes really bad, like the front 9 I just described, I need to find a way to "right the ship" sooner. I know the answer lies in trusting the process, but the hard cold reality that something funky is going on with your swing makes it very difficult. It's impossible to hit solid shots when your head is in front of the ball at impact, and subconsciously, when I know I haven't found the problem or the cure, trusting the process doesn't work for me. I still hit bad shots and it is very hard not to analyze and "fix it".

"I told you once before that I am a believer of Napoleon Hill's "whatever the mind of man can conceive, and BELIEVE, it can achieve". It's a catch 22, when I know something is wrong.... and I'm not sure what it is; I can't "believe"... That seems to be the heart of the problem for me. I have a club championship match tomorrow. Any suggestions?"

My response follows: Ed, the key is to continue in trusting the process. The process in this case is to trust your gut (subconscious) to come up with the answer for you. Since you are searching for a mechanical solution while you are playing, time is of the essence.

What you have to do is acknowledge that you need an answer to solve your problem. Second, you must free your mind of all negative emotions and keep firing away to the best of your ability. After each shot, if your mind is free of concern about the outcome from a scoring point of view, you will be able to allow your mind to objectively look at the feedback from your last shot.

It will use the feedback to come up with an adjustment for you to make. Then, fire away again. Use the feedback to see if "that" was the correct adjustment or what further fine tuning you need to make. Give your subconscious mind the freedom to fail (experiment). It will come up with the correct adjustment much sooner if you are not afraid to experiment or get frustrated.

Some times you will run out of time before you solve the riddle and have to work it out on the driving range. Other times you will solve the riddle after only one or two shots. It just depends upon how severe the mechanical adjustment is that needs to be made. Your gut will solve most of your problems very quickly if you allow it the freedom to find a solution without getting emotionally involved in the outcome.

Therefore, it is just another process that you have to trust. You have to BELIEVE that your mind has the ability to figure things out if you let it do its thing free of all negative emotions. While you are waiting for the riddle to be solved, by remaining positive the rest of your game will remain intact. Otherwise, if you become negative, it will affect your entire game and everything will fall apart. I hope this helps in time for tomorrow.

"Michael, thanks for taking the time to respond. You've made my day. I have enough confidence in my knowledge of the game and my abilities that I can "believe" I'll fix it. In fact, that's actually what happened in the round I described to you ...without realizing it ...I just went through my routine ...insured my setup was correct, and used "feel" keys to "right the ship". At least now I'll have a process to follow if something goes haywire today. I'm playing the guy I beat in the finals last year, so I'll need to be mentally tough."

Ed, I am glad I was able to help. Not that it really matters, but let me know how you do today. Winning or losing is not the issue. The issue is what did you learn today to be better tomorrow. Winning is the result of doing the process better than your competitor.

"Michael, The good news is, I won my match 4 & 3. The better news is that I didn't have my A game today ...I was blocking, pulling, and slicing my way around the course...but managed to make a few key birdies, and several scrambling pars, and dropped a few bombs on the putting green.

"Your advice about trusting my subconscious to "analyze problems and come up with the answer" was a key. I figured out what was wrong, fixing it was a challenge though because it was 2 things...and managed to get through the match.

"Another key thing that I may have mentioned to you previously, is that I have been blessed with the ability to be mentally tough when it's necessary. Your TMK, however, has given me more of a context to recognize what I was doing right...and wrong. It has actually added to my mental toughness because I am becoming a believer in your mental process and I have something definitive to fall back on. The more it works, the better it gets ...guess my tape is getting re-programmed ...smile"

Ed, Way to go. It's always good to see that the process pay off. What is so great about the system is that the mind/body feedback loop puts you in a box. You just can't get away with any negativity, especially when you are going for the Gold. All you have to do is be honest with yourself and make the mental and mechanical adjustments. But, you have to BELIEVE!

"Mike, I thought I'd let you know how the final match went. 21 holes...and as you can imagine, over that length of time there were many opportunities to "test" your game and your mental approach. Several "if you miss this putt...you will lose the match", and "how will I explain how I lost this match", and "wow, it will be great to be the champ 3 years in a row" " All the things that affect everyone. Well, your process was my "life preserver". I stayed in the present, most of the time, and I dealt with the fear of losing, and I managed to overcome the "dips" that jeopardized my goal and I was the winner on the 21st hole.

"There was one interesting moment that I know you will understand. Approaching the green on the 20th hole, my opponent said to me "well, no matter what happens, we've had a good match, you can't do much better than extra holes".....I knew immediately that my desire was greater than his. Extra holes wasn't the goal for me .....winning was. It's even similar to one of your examples. Thought you'd be interested.

"Thanks again for all the sound advice. You'll start getting some orders from here. Some of my friends are becoming believers."

Ed, Thanks for the update. I used our correspondence in my mental tip newsletter to help illustrate that these principles work in combat and are not just wishful thinking. Many golfers are afraid to let go of the outcome and trust the process.

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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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 262

2009-10-14T10:27:00.000-07:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 262: Wednesday - October 14, 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,

Thanks for helping out,

Michael Anthony.

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"Keep Polishing Your Wheel"

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GOLFERS LOCKER ROOM BULLETIN BOARD

Hi Mike,

"I really want to thank you for your Mental Keys. I started playing golf 18 months months ago. I had failed to break 90, especially during tournaments

"Now, I'm playing 80 regularly. It is incredible how the mind set and mind strength, especially making the right decisions under pressure can improve the game.

"I'm really enjoying all the info you provided to me."

Thank you again.

-Innocent Rutamu
Kigali, Rwanda

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"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 tip "Trust Your Triangle" in my "Mental Golf Tips" book.)

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 Tiger.

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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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 261

2009-09-29T11:17:00.000-07:00

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,

Thanks for helping out,

Michael Anthony.

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"Keep Polishing Your Wheel"

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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

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"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.

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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.

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

"The Mental Keys to Improve Your Golf"

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

(925) 855-1388
mike@mentalkeys.com

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changing of the guard

2009-09-15T09:34:00.001-07:00

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Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 260

2009-08-19T10:59:00.000-07:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 260: Wednesday - August 19, 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,

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

Michael,

"My golf team used the mental keys and would read the golf tips, and talk about old man golf. We won our first district championship in 13 years.

"I think all high school golf programs could improve with this program. Thanks!"

Greg Manthei
John Foster Dulles H.S.
Career & Technology Systems lab
Head Boys Golf Program

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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.

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 because the more you focus on the process, the less you will be concerned about the past or future outcomes.

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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"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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 259

2009-08-04T11:55:00.000-07:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 259: Tuesday - August 4, 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,

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

Michael,

"I have the passion and work hard at improving my game. I am 25 hcp and the reason is short game, most the 20 yards in and around green. My driver and middle and especially my wedges are above average, I leak stroke due to chipping and hitting the 40 yard shot.

"But thanks to you, I keep greasing the wheel and I work hard on the process and believe it works and works well. I just started practicing again on the short simple but finess shots around the green.

"With working the process and using my passion I at 61 years old will regain my confidence and realize the process is the KEY..."

THanks,,,, Mike IVey, Fort Myers, Fl

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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.

MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"Experiencing Non-Thinking"

When I work with a golfer, or any athlete, I always ask: "What are you thinking about when you are performing at your best?" The answer is always the same: "I'm not thinking." They are operating on instinct. If you ask yourself that same question, I'll bet your answer will be the same: "I'm not thinking when I perform at my best."

In spite of the above, I get emails asking me: "How does one forget about the outcome - or accomplish such a 'I couldn't care less about the outcome' state when I want to win, birdie, par, look good, or whatever? Some part of me always knows I really do want to win. Pretend you don't want to win and you'll win? Doesn't sound like something you would agree with? So why does reading your book or listening to your CD every time I play help me enter this 'hoot less' state?"

It's not that you care less about the outcome, but you greatly increase your probability of success to achieve the outcome you desire by not thinking about it. Just expect to be successful if everything goes right, trust your triangle and focus on seeing the ball being hit without thinking about the outcome. Another way to increase your probability of success is to take lessons and work on improving your mechanics so you don't have to think about them while you are playing.

The ability to clear your mind of all thoughts takes time and mental training to accomplish. It has taken me years to be able to accomplish this and I'm still working at it because negative thoughts still pop up. When they do, I take a deep breath, talk to myself, tell my thoughts to go away, and then go about my business without thinking about the outcome.

I don't make all of my shots, but I make a lot of them. The one's that I don't make, I don't worry about because I'm not perfect and I'm willing to allow the outcome to happen - good or bad. Then I learn from the feedback how to improve. This process works for me, and will work for you if you work at it.

It's impossible to explain to your mind the experience of being in the present without thinking about the outcome because your mind's job is to think. It's your spirit that experiences non-thinking. It took Eugen Herrigel, the author of "Zen in the Art of Archery," six years of Zen training to experience the experience of non-attachment to the outcome.

My unique mental training program gives your spirit very exact sign posts to follow that will allow you to experience the experience of non-thinking without taking six years of intense study under a Zen Master. The proof is in the pudding. If you read the testimonials on my website, you will find that many golfers have experienced that experience by following the sign posts explained in my book. My CD "Polish the Wheel" makes it easier to follow them.

The choice is yours. You can keep thinking about the outcome or use "The Mental Keys" to experience the experience of non-thinking and lower scores.

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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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 258

2009-07-22T10:43:00.000-07:00

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.

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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"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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 257

2009-07-07T10:42:00.000-07:00

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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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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"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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 256

2009-06-17T10:09:00.000-07:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 256: Wednesday - June 17, 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 heard an interview you gave on Smarter Golf Podcast. I was impressed with what you said about the mental aspect of the game and how we neglect it.

"I went to your web site and read several of the testimonials, which convinced me to make the purchase. After reading your book, I understand how being in the moment is the key, whether it's golf or life in general.

"Your insights are very clear and well stated. I will go onto challenge the demons of my old tape and create a new positive outlook. Thanks for your hard work!"

Sincerely,

Alfredo

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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 lowering 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 round 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 making 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.

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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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 255

2009-06-02T09:53:00.000-07:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 255: Tuesday - June 2, 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

"I had previously ordered and received your Mental Keys program and asked for a refund because I thought that the program was not helping,

"In the time since, I often think of your "tips", sometime refer to my printouts of your tips, and have improved my golf scores significantly. (handicap index about 5 points, though I haven't kept real good track of when Istarted.)

"So, I owe you ....hence I am purchasing your materials one more time, and thank you."

-Pete

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MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"Training, Training, Training"

After a friendly game with a stranger, he bought me a drink and told me that I had intimidated him. Then he said firmly, "I don't get intimidated."

I asked him why he got intimidated. He replied that my level of confidence never changed whether I made or missed a shot, and I always played as if I would make the shot. Then I asked him what he did. He told me that he coached wrestling and was the lead man for a swat team.

Being curious, I asked him what exactly does the lead man for a swat team do. He told me that he was the first person through the door and his job was to take out whoever was on the right side of the hallway or room before he was shot or killed.

I told him that I was a mental trainer and asked him how he mentally prepares himself to do his job. He told me that it's the same for wrestling or being the first one through the door. Training, training, training was his answer.

He trains himself to focus totally on executing the process without any fear or concern about the outcome. I asked him if he had any fear. He said his only fear was that the second man through the door behind him wouldn't take out whoever was on the left side of the hallway or room.

Then he told me that he relies on his partner's training to keep him out of harms way. Can you rely on your mental training to keep you out of harms way on the golf course or do you still get emotionally involved and think about the outcome?

Scientific research has revealed that human beings learn and remember what they have learned through repetition. Isn't it amazing then, that so many golfers expect to read a piece of information one time and retain it forever?

You may think my newsletters are somewhat repetitious, but that's OK. They are designed to be repetitious to help you to keep polishing the wheel until you have the best mental game around. Once you have a great mental game, it's important to keep training, training, training to keep it that way.

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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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 254

2009-05-12T13:37:00.000-07:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 254: Tuesday - May 12, 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

Bula from Sunny Fiji Michael,

"I started playing golf 2 years ago at age 53, and must admit I am a person that has been virtually coached on the Web.

"Your mental inputs to the game have indeed given me that edge to think through my game before I take any shot. My handicap is now at 14 after being rated at 27 when I started, and I aim to take it below 10 before the year is out.

"Thank you for your inputs."

Cheers,

Tubu

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MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"The Importance of the Mental Game"

To fully comprehend the importance of the mental game of golf, a golfer has to clearly understand what is the purpose of the mental game, and how does one achieve a great mental game?

One of the keys to developing a great mental game is to clearly 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, or at your highest level of mechanical proficiency.

The easiest way to do this is to understand that all of your thoughts have two components: facts and emotions. You may not like some of the facts that you experience during a round of golf, but it is important to realize that facts are merely facts - fair or unfair. It is even more important to become aware that it is the emotions you attach to these facts that affect your performance.

The more you learn to master your emotions, the better you will play at any level. The more you master your mechanics, the lower you will score. It doesn't get any simpler than that.

If you insist on serving two masters by being concerned with the outcome while you are trying to improve the process, you greatly diminish your chances for success.

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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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 253

2009-04-28T10:12:00.000-07:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 253: Tuesday - April 28, 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

"Hi michael,

"I have just read your ebook and its brilliant. I am a 1 handicap and I played fear free for the first time ever. Thank you,"

-Declan Toal

FYI - My fr~e ebook is available at www.howtobehappy.org

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"Fear Can Not Exist In The Present"

Learn to have fun on the golf course and train your mind to stay in the present. If you do, you will have less fear and your scores will fall.

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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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 252

2009-04-14T10:34:00.000-07:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 252: Tuesday - April 14, 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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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

"Dear Michael,

"It was last year around August that you entered my life when I received the Mental Keys that I had ordered.

"At that time my game was in shambles!! I had a perfect back swing, but could not reproduce the same when I stood over the ball. I was a different person when I faced that ball. I remember reading your book and I even exchanged mails with video clips of my golf swing. Thanks to your mental keys and few pointers from your friend Karl Fischer (the Director of 555 Golf Academy), I was able to turn my game around.

"Looking back, I had a 24 handicap back then and within 8 months, I have moved to being a 18 handicap. The good thing is that I know the handicap is moving south, and shall get lower as the months go on.

"The things that worked for me were definitely the words: "DESIRE" - "HARD WORK" - "FORGET ABOUT THE OUTCOME". I had a real deep rooted desire to improve and this was mixed with a lot of hard work. A disciplined schedule of having a coach and practicing on my own has helped the game improve.

"The part about "forget about the outcome" plays a very important role during this phase and continues with me when I play a round. Therefore, the PROCESS has been put in place. I have noticed, that I am much more relaxed and not bothered about what happens.

"I am also aware that when I get all excited about playing well and then start counting the strokes, there after the game crumbles and I come out not playing that well after all. Again, this brings back the reference to the OUTCOME.

"Overall I am very pleased with what this has done for me, and I use your principles to what ever else I do in life, which also includes improving my health. I have lost over 20 lbs in the same time using the words "Desire and Hard Work".

"Thanks so much and God Bless!"

-Shamit Vasa
Mumbai - India.

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"How to Regroup -- Quickly"

What do you do when you start out slow or fast and your game falls apart? How do you regroup quickly while you are playing a round of golf before it's too late and you end up with a higher score than you are capable of shooting?

If you don't have a plan for regrouping quickly, here are three questions that will help you get back on track fast. First, ask yourself "What time is it?" The answer is always NOW.

If you are upset about previous bad shots, you are living in the past. If you have fear about repeating past bad shots, you are living in the future. By asking yourself "What time is it?" you are reminding yourself that you can only play in the present, which is NOW. How well you perform in the present determines how well you execute your next shot. So stop agonizing about the past and worrying about the future and realize that NOW is the only time that exists.

Once you are in the present, ask yourself "Is my glass half full or half empty?" Every shot has a probability of success of making the shot and a probability of failure of not making the shot. If you are thinking about the probability of missing your next shot, you are playing with a glass that is half empty. At this point, start focusing totally on the probability of making your next shot so you can play with a glass that is half full. See my previous tip "Half full or half empty."

The final question to ask yourself is "Do I believe?" This question has two parts. One, do you believe that you can make the next shot if everything goes right? Two, do you believe that everything can go right? No one is a fortune teller and you don't know what will happen, but if you BELIEVE that you can make the shot if everything goes right and BELIEVE that everything can go right, you raise your chemistry and increase the probability of making your next shot.

If you don't BELIEVE, you are back at question one where you are not in the present or at question two where your glass is half empty.

If this is the case, make sure you have a talk with yourself and ask yourself these three questions:

What time is it?

Is my glass half full?

Do I believe?

If your answers are NOW, YES and YES, you will regroup very quickly. If not, Old Man Golf is going to have a field day and kick your butt.

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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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 251

2009-03-31T11:54:00.000-07:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 251: Tuesday - March 31, 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

Hi Mike,

"I am currently representing my home course North Lakes in division 1 pennants, a match play formate for 0-9 handicap players no handicap used in the match. I won 4 & 3 on Sunday and this is due to me using the 4 step routine and alway thinking my glass was half full even when I hit a bad shot and let a difficult up and down.

"Thanks for giving me the tools to improve my mental game, which is so important in match play."

-Thanks Niven

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MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"What If I Miss?"

This is a continuation of my last newsletter's tip "Half Full or Half Empty?"

What happens in many cases, it's not their mechanics that were off. It was their mental state that was off because they started thinking that their glass was half empty. This changed their chemistry and caused their mechanics to be off. That's why golfers can quickly regain their swing on the driving range before they finish hitting a bucket of balls.

So the answer to the question "What if I miss?" is make sure that your glass is half full before you start changing your mechanics while you are playing.

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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.

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

"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

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Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 250

2009-03-17T15:32:00.000-07:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 250: Tuesday - March 17, 2009

Hi Determined Golfer,

If you find this newsletter helpful, please tell your friends, associates 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

Michael,

"I'm enjoying your books and CD. You are right on.

"Listen to your CD on the way to and from the course. Your approach has helped my game a great deal, and when I can focus on the process rather than the outcome, it absolutely works.

"I am a 'late-bloomer', started playing in 2006 at age 63--but loving it.

"I'm also taking lessons that are very supportive of your approach. In fact my instructor, PGA professional Stu Aden here in the Olympia,WA area put me onto your book.

-Leon Chickering

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MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"Half Full or Half Empty?"

The way you create the mind-set that your glass is always half full is to look at how your probability of success influences your emotions on every golf shot you face. If you have an easy shot and you're confident that you can make it, your glass is half full. However, if it's a very difficult shot, many golfers feel that their glass is half empty and worry about missing the shot.

A way around this up-and-down swing of emotions is to select only positive emotions when looking at your probability of making the shot. Even if it's only 1 in 100 that you can pull the shot off, you have a choice of focusing on the 99% of not making the shot or the 1% of making the shot if everything goes right and expect everything to go right. Your only other choice is to look for a safer shot if one is available.

If you decide to go for it, you can raise your chemistry by focusing totally on the 1% probability of making the shot and expecting to make it if everything goes right. That's the key. You have to focus totally on expecting to make the shot if everything goes right and not even think about the 99% probability of not making it.

The nice thing about it is that it's your choice and it will reflect in 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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 249

2009-03-03T10:45:00.001-08:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 249: Tuesday - March 3, 2009

Hi Determined Golfer,

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

Michael Anthony.

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GOLFERS LOCKER ROOM BULLETIN BOARD

Since golf is a microcosm of life, it's important to realize the same negative emotions that ruin your golf game can, also, ruin your life if you let them.

The last time that I looked today, the Dow Jones was down to 6,771. This fact has a lot of individuals bummed out around the world. Hopefully, today's mental tip will help you to shake off any negativity that may be affecting your life and well-being.

For those of you that have not ordered "The Mental Keys", I have a surprise offer to help you get on top of your mental game for both golf and life.

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MENTAL TIP by MICHAEL ANTHONY

"The Power of Shaking It Off"

When things don't go your way during a round of golf, do you dwell on the negative or do you shake it off and keep on going? You will always be better off staying positive than letting old man golf with his amazing bag of tricks frustrate you and get you down.

Here is a story that vividly illustrates the power of shaking it off until things go your way. It's about a wise old mule, and the moral of this story can help you stay positive until you overcome your challenges.

Once upon a time, there was a farmer who had a dry well on his farm. It was about thirty feet deep and totally useless since it had been dry for many years. One day his mule, which was very old, accidentally fell down the well.

Hearing strange noises coming from his well, the farmer looked down and saw his mule crying out. At first the farmer didn't know what to do because there was no way that he could lift the mule out of the well. Since his mule was very old and the well was dry, the farmer decided to fill the well with dirt. He figured the mule was going to die soon anyway and the dry well was a hazard.

So the farmer got his shovel and started to throw dirt down the well. When the dirt started falling on the mule's back, the mule knew that he was in deep trouble. So the mule started to shake off the dirt and step on it with his feet. Shovel after shovel the dirt kept on coming. But, the mule kept shaking it off and stepping on it.

After a long time of continuing to shake off the dirt and stepping on it, the wise old mule found himself at the top of the well and walked away. What a powerful story to remember when old man golf is doing his best to bury you in your frustrations.

You always have a choice about your attitude and emotions. You can be negative or you can smile and keep on shaking it off until you rise to the top like the wise old mule.

This holds true for your life as well as your golf. The insights revealed in "The Mental Keys" can help you get through these tough economic times if you use them.

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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.

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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.

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

"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

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 248

2009-02-18T14:43:00.000-08:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 248: Wednesday - February 18, 2009

Hi Determined Golfer,

If you find this newsletter helpful, please tell your friends, associates 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.

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GOLFERS LOCKER ROOM BULLETIN BOARD

Michael,< br />
"Bless you man! I have read your book twice (plan to read it again) and have listened to the CD perhaps a hundred times."

"Your logic and wisdom drove me to seek lessons and to practice more which has really made a difference on the course, but I must say that my mental training and mental state on the course has made an equal advance.

"I will be eternally grateful to you for what you have taught me about golf and about life. I now see it as a process, a journey - I will continue to get better because I plan to never stop working to improve the process."

Warmest Personal Regards,
Mike Jayjock

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"Reduce the Variables of Golf"

Golf can be a very comp lex game because the mechanics of a golfer's swing is not a simple thing to learn and execute instinctively. However, the more you can reduce the variables of golf, the simpler the game becomes, and the easier it is to lower your score.

Being in good physical condition is very simple to control, but requires strong discipline to follow a structured stretching and exercise program. A strong flexible body makes it a lot easier to repeat a complex golf swing, especially towards the end of a round of golf, when many out-of-cond ition golfers are getting physically tired. It's a simple choice. Either get - and stay - in shape, or pay the consequences by shooting higher scores.

Golf is a funny game in that it has its share of ups and downs, which vary from hole to hole and from day to day. The most important variables that you can control are your attitude and state of mind. If you control your attitude and always keep your cup half full, it' s a lot easier to put up with the emotional roller coaster of golf. A positive attitude allows you to remain confident when the golf gods turn against you and gives your subconscious a chance to figure out what is happening mechanically.

If you reduce the variables, you will have more fun playing golf and shoot lower scores.

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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 hel p you to keep polishing your wheel and shoot lower scores.

"To develop a great mental game, it's criti cal 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

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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.

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 s end 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

"The Ment al Keys to Improve Your Golf"

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

(925) 855-1388
mike@mentalkeys.com

www.mentalkeys.com

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip NL - Issue 247

2009-01-05T10:54:00.000-08:00

Michael Anthony's Mental Golf Tip Newsletter

Issue 247: Monday - January 5, 2009

Hi Determined Golfer,

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

Best wishes for a Happy Holidays and a Great New Year in 2009.

Michael Anthony.

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GOLFERS LOCKER ROOM BULLETIN BOARD

Merry Christmas Mike,

"Thanks for all of your golf tips during 2008. I'm positive they helped me in achieving my first hole in one on December 2!

"It was a beautiful day, fun golf partners and in general, a totally positive day that allowed me to hit such a shot...140 yards at Indian Valley in Novato."

Happy Holidays and a very happy, healthy, prosperous 2009!

- Trudy Costes

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"A NEW BEGINNING"

If you have or haven't, here is a powerful way to improve your life as well as your golf. Develop the mindset that every day is a new beginning for the rest of your life. Also, realize that each day you are alive is a gift you can either use or abuse. Every night before you go to sleep ask yourself if you used your gift wisely, or did you just throw it away.

What happens to most of us is that we expect to wake up tomorrow and get another gift. As a result, we don't truly appreciate the limited time that we have here. Our lives are a gift, and every day is precious since our days are numbered.

However, many of us waste the days given to us, and don't come close to reaching our real potential. Instead of making the effort to improve, we make excuses and put off today what we can do tomorrow. Worse yet, we put off this year what we can do next year. Hence, the vicious cycle of broken New Year's resolutions and wasted opportunities to improve never ends.

Every day, like every golf shot, offers you the chance for a new beginning as long as you get up on the right side of the grass.

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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< /strong> 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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Michael Anthony
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Happy New Year | Putt Better for 2009

2008-12-31T12:48:00.001-08:00

Well, it's the time to wish you all a very Happy New
Year and to look forward to a great 2009!

We belive that 2009 will be the year that you make
great strides in your golf game and we're here to help
you do just that.

Many of you already belong to our membership site and
as you know we have almost 16 hours of video
instruciton back there covering every possible swing
malfunction that you could think of!

Whether you are hitting it fat, thin, left, right,
off plane, or no power - you name it we have it
covered.

In addition we also have a very active forum where
you can ask questions and get answers to all of the
swing maladies you may have.

Many of you send us emails asking questions about
your swing and we look forward to receiving those and
providing the answers to your question, so please
don't stop!

2009 is already a very busy year for us. We have the
PGA Show in Orlando Florida in January, our Junior
Player Development Bash on the Beach in February with
Juniors coming from around the world.

This Bash on the Beach is open to all Juniors and
included in the Instructional Staff this year is
mental game guru, Carey Mumford.

Carey has worked with over 300 Tour Players around
the world, as well as the PGA of America, showing
players how to overcome the "mental jitters" and how
to incorporate mental training during practice and
playing rounds.

Wouldn't it be really cool if you could control your
thoughts during a round!

You can read about the Bash by going to
http://snipurl.com/9a8jn

Now let's talk about a little something that will
help your game.

If your golf swing never changes but, you learn
better short game techniques, then you WILL drop 5-7
shots off every round - plain and simple!

A good short game is the great equalizer for those
whose ball striking is less powerful than others so
let's start with putting.

There are basically two types of strokes for putting,
Arc putting and non-arc putting.

To go along with these two types there are also two
ways to power the putter - shoulders (pulling) or
trailing arm (pushing), for right-handers that is the
right arm.

An example of someone that powers the stroke with
their right arm would be Jack Niclaus, probably the
best clutch putter of all time.

Players that use this type of stroke also use the
non-arc style of putting.

The right elbow bends and straightens powering the
stroke just like a piston - pushing the club through
the ball while keeping the sweetspot of the putter
"looking at the target", no sweetspot rotation!

If you are a left-eye dominate person, and a
right-handed player - then this is the ONLY procedure
that will work consistently.

Left-eye dominate players MUST open their bodies to
the target line so that they SEE the line. Otherwise
when they set up they will ALWAYS aim to the right of
target. This now requires that the face be closing
through Impact.

If you are an arc style putter - like Ben Crenshaw -
then the player MUST align square to the target.

Arc style putters use their shoulders to power the
stroke - pulling the club through Impact. With this
type of stroke the sweetspot of the putter opens and
closes during the stroke making ball location
absolutely critical!

Out of all of the players that have come to our schools
only ONE player has aimed the putterface to the target
and he is 11 years old...AND a great putter!

We recently had a player that had won over 30
tournaments around the world and when we measured them
they were aimed eight inches to the right of the hole
- the player is left-eye dominate!

Now you could argue that this player has had a lot of
success doing what they are doing and you would be
correct. But aiming that far to the right and having
to close the face just enough is a tough thing to
measure.

I wonder how many more tournaments they could have
won IF they had been aiming where they thought they
were!

Once we showed this player how to set up - ala
Nickalus style - they aimed the putter perfectly every
time!

So the choice is yours...keep doing what you've been
doing, and getting the same results, OR make a New
Years resolution to get serious about improving your
game. Either way we're here for you and will be gald
to help anyway we can.

OK, enough for now.

We'll have a couple of more announcements around the
first part of February to share with you so until
then...Happy New Year!

Chuck & Randy

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One last thing.

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your game very seriously and we don't have a "day job"
this IS our job...making players better!

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