Maintain Your Passion for Golf-Four Ideas to Consider
If you have to take a break from golf during cold winter months, it can be difficult to maintain your passion for the game.
Here are four ideas to help keep that passion as strong as ever: Understand your value system Why do you play golf?Here are a few reasons why people I know play:
Know what makes you passionate about golf and find an easy way to ensure it, then step back and understand what trends yield positive results.
For example, I live in a northern climate and therefore every April and May is an adventure.
So to keep from getting discouraged to the point where I will not want to play in the summer months, I have a rule: my stroke total doesn't count until Memorial Day.
Instead, I focus on getting one good shot on every hole and maximizing how many rounds I can get in on warmer days before the end of May.
By the time June rolls around, I have managed to shake off the rust and I cannot wait for that 5AM Saturday alarm.
Understand positive and negative influences I play a lot of golf as a single, and I am frequently paired up with another twosome or threesome.
I can usually tell after two holes how the round is going to go attitude-wise.
There is nothing like either an uncommunicative threesome, or a group not understanding basic golf etiquette, to put me on "tilt.
"(It is not that they are necessarily bad people - they are just playing golf with a different set of values.
) As a result, I've started carrying an old MP3 player with me whenI go out solo.
If I get a lousy pairing, I will have a tool to help block them out and focus on how much I am enjoying myself.
On the other hand, I recently played with a father/son scratch pair while I was on a December weekend getaway to Florida.
The son was a budding pro on a minor league circuit, and I think the father was actually a better golfer than the son.
I had not touched a club in over two months until the day before, and I really felt that I was going to slow them down.
Instead, I had a fantastic time because both of them were thrilled at the idea that I would fly to Bradenton for 48 hours to get in some golf, and they understood how to be encouraging.
Stress continuous incremental improvement In his book Awaken the Giant Within, Tony Robbins uses the concept of compounding interest to describe how making a series of 1% improvements at something for which you have passion pays off over time.
Similarly, most business process guides discuss continuous improvement as a key for success.
Once you understand how to measure your passion for golf, develop a plan for making every round of golf, training session, book, or TV show generate just a fraction more passion than before.
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Here are four ideas to help keep that passion as strong as ever: Understand your value system Why do you play golf?Here are a few reasons why people I know play:
- To get exercise and fresh air
- To carve out time with close friends or family members
- To challenge oneself (either physically or mentally)
Know what makes you passionate about golf and find an easy way to ensure it, then step back and understand what trends yield positive results.
For example, I live in a northern climate and therefore every April and May is an adventure.
So to keep from getting discouraged to the point where I will not want to play in the summer months, I have a rule: my stroke total doesn't count until Memorial Day.
Instead, I focus on getting one good shot on every hole and maximizing how many rounds I can get in on warmer days before the end of May.
By the time June rolls around, I have managed to shake off the rust and I cannot wait for that 5AM Saturday alarm.
Understand positive and negative influences I play a lot of golf as a single, and I am frequently paired up with another twosome or threesome.
I can usually tell after two holes how the round is going to go attitude-wise.
There is nothing like either an uncommunicative threesome, or a group not understanding basic golf etiquette, to put me on "tilt.
"(It is not that they are necessarily bad people - they are just playing golf with a different set of values.
) As a result, I've started carrying an old MP3 player with me whenI go out solo.
If I get a lousy pairing, I will have a tool to help block them out and focus on how much I am enjoying myself.
On the other hand, I recently played with a father/son scratch pair while I was on a December weekend getaway to Florida.
The son was a budding pro on a minor league circuit, and I think the father was actually a better golfer than the son.
I had not touched a club in over two months until the day before, and I really felt that I was going to slow them down.
Instead, I had a fantastic time because both of them were thrilled at the idea that I would fly to Bradenton for 48 hours to get in some golf, and they understood how to be encouraging.
Stress continuous incremental improvement In his book Awaken the Giant Within, Tony Robbins uses the concept of compounding interest to describe how making a series of 1% improvements at something for which you have passion pays off over time.
Similarly, most business process guides discuss continuous improvement as a key for success.
Once you understand how to measure your passion for golf, develop a plan for making every round of golf, training session, book, or TV show generate just a fraction more passion than before.
Copyright 2007 tryagolfschool.
info