Abolish Your Comfort Zone -
It's Killing Your Golf Game
Wade Pearse
Your comfort zones are destroying your ability to shoot low
scores. Whenever you are about to move outside your comfort
zone your swing will "mysteriously" betray you. Yet is it
really so mysterious?
We all have what I call an inner game thermostat. It
governs your inner game temperature, so to speak. Your comfort
zone is like a climate controlled room. If it gets too cool
then it's time to heat up. If it gets too hot the air conditioner
turns on to cool things down.
So your inner thermostat does exactly what it is preprogrammed
to do - bring your game back to *normal*! How? By producing
what appears to be the "wrong swing at the wrong time". Yet
in reality it is actually the "right swing at the right time!"
Your inner game thermostat calmly runs beneath your conscious
awareness. Perfectly controlling your game.
Have you ever had the feeling that you have no idea where
the ball is going?! This can happen when we reach either side
of our comfort zone.
The same goes for when you are approaching 80. Yet there's
something funny about this settings on the low side of our
comfort zones! The thermostat seems to kick in with even more
authority!
(Have you ever noticed that even though your scores might
be climbing and you dislike it it feels easier and somehow
more acceptable than going really low? I'm not saying you
don't want to go low. I'm saying that you are *familiar* with
shooting higher scores because you've done this more often
than shoot really low scores.)
As you get nearer to breaking your personal best it kicks
on and returns your game to "normal". How? You card a couple
bogies in a row and guess what? You magically shoot 80! Your
comfort zone is maintained*...
Comfort zones are a long and slow death to any hopes
you have of reaching your potential. I don't care what kind
of goal setting plan, or mental game worksheet you follow.
Your internal setting for what you "believe" about your game
is what calls the shots. Pun fully intended. :-)
There are specific strategies for creating new settings on
your inner game thermostat. Nothing complicated yet they are
extremely powerful and effective. But hey,
only you know how much you want to break out of your comfort
zone.
...it's kind of like the proverbial frog in a pot of water.
Set the frog in a pot of water and slowly bring it to a boil
and the frog stays there because it is comfortable along the
way...
Reach the next level in your game and make the changes you
want now. After all, the water is slowly coming to a boil...
Wade Pearse
http://www.golf-mental-game-coach.com
Keeping you on target!
Wade Pearse is a Peak Performance Coach with a Masters
in results. For 7 years he researched and applied the most
advanced mental game strategies and identified what actually
produces results. By applying these strategies his handicap
has dropped from a 26 down to a 3. All without any golf lessons.
He'll show you how to do the same. Step by step.
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