Are you ready to take your game to the next level?

 

Do you know that you’ll always find a way to do whatever you need to do in your life?

Regardless of how easy or challenging something may seem

Your mind and body are amazing at pulling out an answer, a solution, an outcome

Sometimes…

Quite often shall I say

Those solutions will be nothing more than just a bundle of what you’ve learnt before mashed up together to get to your outcome

By hook or by crook

You’ll get there!

YET!

Is it possible that there is a

Quicker

Easier

More efficient

More effective

Way of getting where you want to get to?

Of course there is!

Yet

There’s a price tag on that one!

Awareness, responsibility and then different action

And all that while being right here in this moment

That’s what it costs…

Are you prepared to invest the time to be present?

Are you prepared to do things differently?

Even though it may feel harder and a long winded way initially?

It takes commitment to figure out a way that works best

As by now

You’ll have a whole load of pre programmed responses, patterns, ways to go about things in life

And when you want to change something in your life

It feels hard right?

But does it have to?

See, I had my second golf lesson this morning

I was so freaking proud of myself for how good I’ve been hitting the ball in my own practice

And so was my coach

YET!

He, as a golf pro

Was able to instantly see how and why the ball wasn’t going as far as it could

Or how it could go even higher

Or how I could improve the direction of it

My swing after the first lesson and a couple of practice sessions I did in between

Was a collection of pre learnt movement patterns

That weren’t a golf swing

Some from weightlifting

Some from other sports and activities

My body moves well

Yet

It’s never really done a proper golf swing before

So it did what it could

With the information it had from the actions that seemed similar to this one

And it put it all together in a mashed up way to get my desired result

To swing the freaking club and to hit the ball

Easy right?

Yet!

With the patience and presence I was willing to invest in what I was doing

With the advice of the dude that’s a pro at this game

With a few tweaks

By the end of the lesson

I was hitting the ball way further and straighter

Yet the freaking bit in the middle

Making the adjustment

Implementing changes

Hitting (or attempting to ????) the ball differently

Boy did I at points want to smash the club on the floor and launch the balls at my teacher

Yet I laughed and smiled instead

Saying to my coach Rob

How much golf is like life

How when you’re aware of what you don’t want anymore (certain bits of my swing)

You get the awareness (you know what you want to change)

You then take responsibility for it (take on board my coach’s advice in this instance)

And then you get to move to step 3 – implement the freaking action!

The different and modified action

You get to do something different to get a different result yeah?

And for me today it was breaking down my swing into pieces

And putting it back together

The thing is – this shit applies to EVERYTHING in life

When you want to change your business, your body, your relationship

When you want to change how you look at things

You break the way you went about it into pieces

And you put the freaking thing back together again

Just in the order that you more prefer in this moment

Sometimes you’ll breeze through it

And sometimes

You’d want to throw the toys out the pram and give in before you even started

It’ll feel hard

It’ll seem pointless

You had an ok-ish result before after all right?

So why change things…

The question here is

What do you prefer?

What do you choose?

And what do you want to commit yourself to?

A shitty swing that gets the ball up in the air ok yet only to a very limited distance

Which will of course massively affect the long game

(I’d not be able to get on the course a play a game with a swing like that, it’d take me days to walk the whole course lol, and that’s if I haven’t lost my ball several times in the meantime!)

Or practice, commitment and dedication

To an outcome that you DO prefer

That lets you play a good game

That gives you an even greater, more epic and more fulfilling result

And feel freaking awesome as a result of that as a bonus?!

M x

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