Category: Spirit of Golf

March 24, 2013

There is often a mindset of, “I’ll work hard now so that I can reap the rewards and relax and enjoy later on.”  From the standpoint of Law of Attraction, it doesn’t quite work that way.  For starters, nothing can come into our “now” experience that doesn’t require lots of hard work (and usually the accompanying toil, burnout, and grind).  Then, just about the time we get ready to reap the rewards, life continues to be challenging and hard, not because it really is, but because we never learned we could have anything we wanted the easy and effortless way.

St. Lucie West, FL – March, 2013 

March 22, 2013

Most of us overlook the importance of the inner game because we’ve conditioned ourselves to fixate on the physical stuff.  Yet what science is telling us time and again is that the physical stuff is pretty much insignificant – and almost non-existent – when compared to the consciousness (imagination, thoughts, emotions, beliefs) which “molds the clay” of every-thing. We can stay stuck in the grinding and trying mode or we can begin to include into the action stage the effort-less power of the mind.  In either case, mind over matter (thought over action) as an energy for peak performance is a concept that is here to stay.

Dunedin, FL – March, 2013

 

March 17, 2013

What’s important to keep in mind is that all emotions –when repeated often enough – become highly addictive to the cells of the body. Anger, anxiety, struggle, or worry all begin to feel normal and desirable, at which time the body finds any way it can to get its chemical rush. We’ll do whatever it takes – have a meltdown, toss a club, get sloppy with a shot – just to stimulate the addiction and keep the juices flowing and alive.

Phoenix, AZ – March, 2012 

March 15, 2013

As long as we keep thinking and feeling equal to what we already know, all that we see will be more of what we already know. In other words, something’s gotta give on the inside – we’ve got to picture and imagine ourselves differently – before the physical proof can come our way. Once we do make the necessary internal shift with our thoughts and emotions, however, change happens very quickly. It’s the habitual patterns we stubbornly hold onto that drags things out and get us into trouble every time.

Orlando, FL – January, 2013

March 15, 2013

As long as we keep thinking and feeling equal to what we already know, all that we see will be more of what we already know. In other words, something’s gotta give on the inside – we’ve got to picture and imagine ourselves differently – before the physical proof can come our way. Once we do make the necessary internal shift with our thoughts and emotions, however, change happens very quickly. It’s the habitual patterns we stubbornly hold onto that drags things out and get us into trouble every time.

Orlando, FL – January, 2013

March 10, 2013

Peak performance ultimately comes down to going inside and learning to feel good.  Not good because our golf games have improved or scores are lower or shots are going closer to the hole. Those are actually the byproducts of the feel good instructions we are sending to the body via the mind.  The goal instead is to retrain ourselves into feeling good for no good reason at all, since a body/mind that is tension and resistance free is going to take any subject and find a way to prosper and thrive.

Cleveland, OH – December, 2012 

March 6, 2013

Whenever we buy into the opinions of others and whether or not we should have done this or that, we can kiss inner guidance goodbye. Standing on our heads to try and please others is never going to keep us – or them – happy for very long, since there are way too many fickle attitudes, judgments, and perspectives to keep anyone other than ourselves happy for very long.  The inner journey requires that we move toward – not away from – what makes us feel happy and whole.  We begin the all-important journey of empowering ourselves, which can never take place until we “withdraw” from the opinions of others and how they would like for us to behave.

– In response to a reader’s question on whether or not we think it is appropriate to withdraw from a golf tournament 

March 2, 2013

It helps to understand that all emotion is neither good nor bad – after all, how we feel is how we feel – and that emotion is simply an internal barometer that lets us know when the energy of our thoughts and beliefs is aligned or misaligned with the deeper, more soulful essence of who we already are (our kindest and most loving self).

Boston, MA – August, 2011 

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March 1, 2013

While many of us have come to believe (falsely) that success is dependent upon the time-honored tradition of struggle and grind, nothing could be further from the truth. It is the stories we tell ourselves the most – and the emotional energy underlying the stories – that invents and defines our games. The success or failure that eventually manifests is not about effort but about what we believe, since the type of action we take is always preceded by imagination and belief and how easy or difficult we think the game should be.

Boston, MA – August, 2011 

Upcoming events

Join us in the following cities for upcoming Spirit of Golf workshops and clinics. For a full listing of our upcoming events, click here.  To discuss private coaching opportunities with Tim, click here.