Happy New Year everyone! It's that time of year where we all have grand ideas about bettering ourselves but unfortunately in a few months generally it's back to more like the way it was---the past seeming to jump into the future and repeat itself over and over again. What will make this year any different?
Tim Gallwey wrote in his book The Inner Game of Golf "without desire, there is no goal, & no action."
So in order to keep the past from repeating itself, in order to honor those commitments you made to start this new year, the vision you have for the future has to be empowering/interesting enough to generate the energy and desire required to honor those commitments.
Let's say you want to lower your handicap from a 15 to a 9. What would you have to learn to remove 6 shots from your score? Where would you have to put your attention while you are practicing? How much time would need to be created so that you can develop your awareness enough to make such an improvement? And how could you practice so that the awareness that was developed is something that stays with you forever?
Or what if you want to play with more joy, creativity and freedom. First you will have to identify what is interfering with it. What is stopping you from having fun? Being creative? Playing with freedom?
Now you have a direction, a path you can begin to travel and one that is so interesting you can't help but explore what's possible.
Or let's say you have never played the game in your life and have been curious but hesitant to try it. What's holding you back? What vision of the future (generally a past based experience or belief like "I am no good at sports," or "I will be terrible and everyone will laugh at me.")is keeping you from discovering what's possible? Is it possible to create a different vision of the future? One that fuels your present actions(the difference between making an important phone call or never dialing the number)and gets you what you really want?
Hope that gives you something to check out and again, Happy New Year and may your resolutions be inspiring enough that you wake up so excited you can't wait to get going!
~Brandon
Golf with Freedom Lesson Center
www.GolfwithFreedom.Net
