Congratulations, you made it!
At this stage, either your curiosity is piqued and you’re willing to experiment with the idea of triggers and anchors, or you’ve arbitrarily dismissed the concepts as delusional as you lace up your golf shoes and head for the practice range to beat an extra large bucket of balls.
If you are one of the elite players who have found a method that produces consistent results, then please give this book to someone else.
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
The material is offered as an alternative to the complex swing theories that transform a fundamentally simple game into a study in quantum mechanics. The notion that your game is a habit may seem too simplistic, until you experience the pain of trying to break a well-established routine.
Stop and consider how many of our daily habits are automatic and how disturbed you are when the ritual is disturbed (like an extra long line-up in the Starbuck’s drive thru). You can see how powerful long-standing habits can be.
Breaking a habit can be a long, drawn-out process or it can occur within minutes. It all depends on your beliefs and motivation.
Set up effective pattern interrupts and replace them with new, empowering routines. In just thirty days you can crash through the wall that has impeded your progress.
Develop the habit of reinforcing your best shots and your conscious mind will start to “play ball” with you. Memories embedded in our nervous system govern everything we do. New habits build new memories. New memories lead to new actions.
There is a poem I first heard on a YouTube video with the late Canadian golfing legend, Moe Norman. The original author is unknown, but it illustrates exquisitely the power of habit:
“I have a little robot that goes around with me, I tell it what I’m thinking, I tell it what I see, I tell my little robot all my hopes and fears, it listens and remembers everything it hears.
At first my little robot followed my commands, but after years of training, it’s gotten out of hand. It doesn’t care what’s right or wrong, or what is false or true, but no matter what I try now, it tells me what to do.”
Thanks for keeping an open mind!
I look forward to helping you create more happy accidents, when your innate swing slips through the filters of your conscious mind, and lets you see the hidden potential that’s been there all along.