Talk to me Self…….talk to ME!!! Ahhhhh, that’s better. I love you too.
The average golfer spends thousands on equipment and then will spend thousands on lessons as well. Lessons to train the BODY, and nothing for the Engine, the MIND.
Not many of us can utilize an on off switch for the types of behavior that we demonstrate.
What I mean by this is that most people tend to show their personalities eventually no matter what activity or pastime in which they are participating.
If someone, for example, is struggling with patience is going to have a very tough time, sitting in a rowboat in the middle of a lake waiting for a fish to bite. it may seem like an eternity since you drop that worm in the water when really, it has just been a few minutes, but the silence and the lack of activity is absolutely driving you crazy.
You start fidgeting the boat starts, disturbing the placid water and your friend that your fishing with asked you if you were OK because you’re not going to help exercise of getting fish bite when you scare the crap out of them with your big ass flopping around in the boat
Golf is a pretty obvious activity for revealing character and behavior, in many people’s opinion.
The quote by legendary sportswriter Grantland Rice (1880-1954) is easy to find by doing a Google search. It goes like this: Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe or partner than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. As a sports writer, Rice did more than just relate sports stories. He truly appreciated sports for its ability to bring out the best and worst in people. That’s why it seems so natural that the roots of the famous saying, “It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you play the game” is found in his writings.
Rice is noted for making many comparisons between life, human behavior and sports, and with good reason. A lively game of competitive golf is full of drama, decision making, success or defeat, dedication, and effort and strategy, and all of it is compressed into a few hours of competition.
Obviously, the same is true on the golf course and it has been a saying since the beginning of golf itself that players on the golf course will reveal their personality and character eventually during a round of golf over eighteen holes.
If you catch up with someone that you have never played with before the round of golf and chat with them or hit golf balls with them on the driving range, you could start to feel the type of energy that they’re going to bring onto the golf course once you tee off.
Folks that are not hitting good shots on the driving range and letting it bother them and becoming tense are going to have a really difficult time out on the golf course if they’re already putting pressure on themselves for results on the driving range where it doesn’t matter at all.
On the flipside of that, you could see someone like me who shows up at the golf course and my priorities are making sure that my speaker is charged and that my legs are stretched because I’m going great and my focus is actually saying to the staff there at the property that perhaps I haven’t seen in a few weeks and catching up with friends and talking.
I may roll a few a few balls if I have a lot of time, but for the most part since I’m not concerned with my score and I don’t really give a shit what anybody thinks about me my priorities are the people with friends and getting ready to connect with myself in the process of what I like to call golf recess.
Where are all My Golfers at? Huh? Anyone……Bueller? Bueller? Bueller?
A friend of mine was visiting from California this past weekend in the conversation of handicaps came up and he asked me how I was scoring on the golf course, and I told him I had no clue.
He assumed that I was not playing golf. I explained to him that I simply do not keep a score when I play golf and I have to approximate what my score would be just going back and tallying it up.
His question was “what do the people that you are playing with think about that? Aren’t they bothered that you are not keeping score? Don’t they ask you your score after the hole?.”
I smiled and asked him. “Why would I be thinking about other people when I am trying to play golf and hit great golf shots? Just because I am not keeping score does not mean I do not want to play great and hit great shots. That is all I want to do in between connecting with nature and my breath and enjoying the walk.”
Shiiiiiiit. I should have just said…..”Huh? I’m The GratiDude”
The reality is whether you are playing golf to simply relax and have fun, or you are playing to achieve a great score and continually measure yourself against your own game and improvement. All those experiences can only be maximized by staying present connected to your breath and the moment of now.
In the moment now is when you can talk to yourself and encourage yourself, you can say your affirmations of self-love and positivity all in the moment of now.
There is no self-love in future thoughts, nor is their love in the rations of past that generate regret.
So regardless of why you play the game and what game you play being present and knowing why you are there and what is important to you is what allows you to be comfortable and enjoy the ride as much as you possibly can.
Whatever you do, don’t cheat like Goldfinger.
He was a Dick.
Daily practice and consistency are what allows you to show up present in the moment of now and it is something you can cultivate with the commitment to understanding how you can get comfortable with silence.
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