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The Fairway Of Life
Simple Secrets To Playing Better Golf By Going With The Flow ~
Rand Scott Marquardt
Life & Mental Golf Performance Coach 
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Andrew is both hungry and humble and now wants to play on the PGA Tour more than ever. I invite him to keep dreaming his dream and visualizing upon the kind of golfer he desires to be. Be as you wish to seem. Act as if it is so. Paint the picture and gravitate towards that. Walk, talk, play, and carry yourself like the champion that you are…all the while lightening up and having fun along the fairway of life. Not to take anything too serious here either. Isn’t being spiritual a weird thing? I know Andrew belongs, now it’s just a matter for him to realize that, similar to Baggar Vance. What will Andrew chose to be next? What will Andrew chose to do next?
Andrew and I texted back and forth on the phone and spoke at length from his disappointing return from Q-School last night while returning from South Carolina. 71-70-69-69 is nothing to be ashamed about. This time he missed by two shots. He has made it to stage II before. For the most part from tee to green his game is pretty darn good. It’s his putting that got the best of him on this particular trip and occasionally he gets ahead of himself out of the present moment thinking he must birdie future holes he hasn’t played yet. I also invite Andrew to think of a lie as just a lie, no judgments, simply an observation. Then commit to the shot.
At Q-School his putting let him down and a few other minor lapses. Like all of us, Andrew occasionally sends mixed messages to himself prior to executing his shots. I call this “vibrational energy” we are feeling. On certain shots he may think where he doesn’t want the ball to go, he sometimes gets in the mindset of having to guide it, and then when it comes to putting and certain shots he, “Wants to lose the junk and mixed messages, a feeling that I want to get rid of.” He said he has played and putted extremely well for the last three months, “now I couldn’t read the grain.” He got into a funk on the green unless he stiffed his shots. Notice when he said he couldn’t…that’s the energy we get back in return, usually in the form of a missed putt. Jack Nicklaus never made a putt that he first didn’t already make in his mind, in how he was visualizing it. There’s a feeling of allowing it v ersus resisting it.
I explain to Andrew that this vibrational energy is about aligning to the Well-Being and allowing that in. It’s about creating more and more beneficial beliefs and not trying to get rid of anything. That’s how we change. With golf shots or anything else we are either allowing the Well-Being in, going with the flow, or we are resisting, kinking up the flow. Resistance comes in many forms. In golf we call them demons: fear, negative thoughts, mixed messages, a limited belief about ourselves, and other foolish self-sabotaging behaviors like; anger; frustration, trying to impress others; or wanting something so badly we end up pushing it further away.
This Well-Being is what golfers call being in The Zone, pure positive energy flowing to and through us in the present moment. We are either allowing this in, or we are resisting it. To be more mentally tough is creating a champions or winner’s self-image by depositing more and more beneficial beliefs into the treasury of our sub-conscious mind. I also provide more insights about these and other enlightening golf mindsets in my new book, The Fairway of Life: Simple Secrets To Playing Better Golf By Going With The Flow. Remember the shot produces the swing, not the other way around.
Andrew knows he has two choices, and one of them doesn’t count. He can either evolve forward becoming better tomorrow than he is today…through his new awareness, or he can quit? Champion’s all overcame adversity by keeping on! Andrew’s asking to become better…and The Universe is answering. You must ASK! Now it is up to Andrew to allow it in. As we send our positive vibes to Andrew they return back to us.
Keep on keeping on!
Be as you wish to seem,
“Coach” Marquardt
Life & Mental Golf Performance Coach
Sport & Athletic Administration, MA
Inspiring Excellence Within!
* The one who wins is always the one who is clearest about his wanting and is most expectant of it. Expectation lies in our vibrational energy and it never lies. It is law. It’s a belief and a feeling of confidence in ourselves, or not? I invite you to post your comments at: http://golfissupposedtobefun.com
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I am grateful to create this post with Andrew’s permission and blessing because he too wishes others “will benefit from it. It’s everything we talked about and true,” Andrew Ruthkoski.
So, here’s the fine line between desires and putting out one’s intention then letting it go versus wanting it so badly and holding oneself in a space pushing or trying so hard. There is always a gap between where you are right now and where it is you desire to go. How we are able to be with this is key. Let it be and allow it to unfold. Find out the kind of demeanor and mindset that works and serves your best interest. You are either allowing the Well-Being (The Zone) in or you are resisting it.
Perhaps this message from Esther Hicks through Abraham will provide even greater insight into this incredible journey we call life, applying these principles to the game of golf.
“All is well, and you will never get it done. Life is supposed to be fun. No one is taking score of any kind, and if you will stop taking score so much, you will feel a whole lot better — and as you feel a whole lot better, more of the things that you want right now will flow to you. You will never be in a place where all of the things that you are wanting will be satisfied right now, or then you could be complete — and you never can be. This incomplete place that you stand is the best place that you could be. You are right on track, right on schedule. Everything is unfolding perfectly. All is really well. Have fun. Have fun. Have fun!”
Here are some important points that I most want you to get in this post. There will always be a gap from where you are right now to where you desire to be. In Andrew’s case he’s wants to be and play on the PGA Tour and right now he plays in certain tournaments throughout the state of Michigan, plus seeks to qualify for Nationwide Tour events and some PGA Tour events…he’s made the field in both of these and has pocketed some money. He’s in between. How does one get from here to there? Here are some points to reflect upon.
1) While many of us can’t jump directly from here to there instantly, unless you’re a Magic Johnson or a Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods type…however if you will…
2) Relax and turn your attention and focus in the direction that gives you the greatest relief in the thought you’ve made it. Find relief, drop the oars, let your canoe turn around, and go with the flow. Why?
3) Because in the releasing of that struggle and in the no longer paddling against the current, beating up on ourselves, you cannot stop the envitable of receiving the benefit of what you’ve been asking for!
You see, in our society over generations you and your learned paddling, or struggle against the current is the only thing ever that has kept you from this wonderful stuff that you have been asking to experience. We have been trained by well-meaning others (parents, teachers, coaches, etc.) and in the process of life we also train others to go against the flow. We are either allowing the Well-Being in and going with the flow, or we are resisting it, pushing against it. When Andrew embraces this principle he will be well on his way…because he is asking and his desire burns in his belly.
Now, here’s the thing…don’t expect you’re going to give it all up right now. But, when you do it…you’re going to know it! Don’t believe a word I have to say…go experience it for yourself! Because the better it gets, the better it gets! As in the words of Dr. Wayne Dyer, “I am no better than anybody else, I am just becoming a little better than I used to be.”