#153 Web TV: How to Improve Your Concentration On The Golf Course

How to Improve Your Concentration On The Golf Course

Would you like to know how to better concentrate out on the golf course?

Did you say,  "yes Tiff! Yes, I really want to learn how to do it."

Well, today I’m going to show you how to concentrate when you are on the golf course.
Now, it was about thirty-one days ago that I sent out a video to share with you how to better concentrate out on the golf course. I talked to you about meditating.

A really simple strategy, all you had to do was breathe in for four, hold for four, breathe out for four and hold for four. Something really simple and the challenge that I had for you was to do it over the thirty-one days, every day for five minutes a day.

Did you do it?

Did you say, "yes, I did do it Tiff! Yes, I was really diligent."

When I put something out like that and people get all excited and say yes, I’m going to do it.

But, do you know what is really hard?

It’s actually hard just to make the effort to do it. It’s actually hard for you to sit for five minutes, can you believe it, five minutes, all you have to do is sit for five minutes and work on your breathing so that you can learn how to better concentrate.

Most people won’t do it, but I hope you did.

The reason that I wanted you to do that was to see if you were more aware about what was going on.

• Were you aware that your mind had been distracted when you were doing your breathing technique?
• Did that create any awareness for you?
• Were you finding that when you were out playing and standing over the ball you started to lose a little bit of focus and could feel your mind wondering?
• Was that happening for you?
  Or, were you finding that you were much calmer when you were playing?

Because, if you were feeling all this type of thing, then excellent. That means you have been doing the work, if you haven’t then I would suspect that you haven’t spent the thirty-one days just doing five minutes a day working on that specific technique.

Something so simple. I can’t stress it enough for you to actually go and do it.

So, what are we going to do and how are we going to continue that process?

Well, I’m going to assume that you have been meditating for your thirty-one days and I’m going to assume that you have the technique, the breathing technique sorted out.

I want you now to actually be aware of where your head is when you are standing over the ball. The reason I say that is because when people are actually playing and they set up for their shot and they go to play the shot, it’s like they don’t know what has just happened, the motion has been there, they had hit it and then go completely blank. They don’t know why they didn’t play the shot that well. The reason for that is because your mind has drifted off. You have started to think about something else.

Why has that happened? Well, that has shown us that you haven’t actually been focusing on what you need to be doing at that moment in time.

That’s the power of meditation. It teaches you not only how to bring yourself back, how to be aware of what’s going on, it teaches you how to stay focused in that moment in time. That is the power of it.

Like I said, I’m going to assume you have been working on it for the thirty-one days and what I want you to do is give me feedback on is the next round that you play, I want you to tell me where your awareness level was at when you were actually playing your game.

• Were you aware and staying in the moment when you set up to your ball?
• Or, did you find that your mind started to drift off when you were playing your shot?
• Did you find that you were blank when you played your shot and then thought, what just happened, I have no idea?

Try and get into your head and work out where you were. Because if you are not here in this moment playing your shot, you are not focused on what is actually going on, are you?

You want to be able to have that performance when you come out onto the golf course and play to the best of your ability.

I can’t stress this enough because I really want you to apply this strategy. I talk to so many people about doing it, and they don’t do it, and they are still having the same problem. I have the same conversation with the same people saying the same thing.

Go and meditate for five minutes a day, start training your brain. Start learning how to better focus. That will create awareness for you. That will actually show you what’s going on with you, whether you are focused and in the moment and playing your shot and you are aware that you are here, or you are aware that you are not, because that is how you will be able to bring yourself back.

What about when you play a bad hole?

What happens then, you have all the stories that go on in your head. You talk to yourself, "oh yeh, that would be right, you’ve missed the ball. And it’s just constant, you know, you can do better than that you stupid idiot", and all of that. Whatever it is that you are saying to yourself.

Suddenly it’s three holes later and you think what’s happened?

The annoying little voice that sits on your shoulder and says, "that would be right because you’ve made a mistake and now you have just lost three holes."

Why have you wasted three holes, because you were not aware of what was going on. You are not focused on what’s going on.

The ability of being able to meditate is the ability to be able to bring yourself back when you start to lose it. It’s the ability of being aware of what’s going on and it’s the ability to actually stay in the moment.

I will stress to you, I have so much running in my head right now that I want to say to you but I’m not going to say everything, but I will stress that if you are not doing this simple meditation technique, you are not doing this simple breathing technique, you are not going to get the results you want.

It’s not just physical. You know it’s mental. I’m very passionate about this, as you can tell. It’s not physical, you need to start working and getting your head right. You get your head right, and your shots will work really well for you because you understand what you need to do here. You are no dummy. I know that you know and that you understand what you need to be doing with the skills but you’re not using your head effectively.

You are not training your mind and not teaching it what to do.

Don’t let your head control you. You control your mind!

The thing I want you to come back and tell me is, are you aware that you are actually present and in the moment playing your shot?

If you are not, what is it that you need to do to help fix that?

If you don’t know, write to me and I will shoot a video on it, so we can create a strategy around how to fix that.

I want you to meditate so that it creates awareness and help you to stay in the moment and help you get focus so you can actually achieve whatever it is that you want.

Have an absolutely awesome day, take care, and remember; Tee it high and Let it fly.