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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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Our subconscious brain runs everything in our life, including our golf game. Stated another way, we become conditioned to same or similar patterns of behavior time and time again, unless we don’t. Unless we break free and create new neurological pathways. In other words, if we keep thinking the same thoughts, we keep getting the same results. How we play, how we respond, how we score, how we react are all conditioned patterns of behavior. It’s almost like clockwork. Over time these conditioned patterns of behavior fall into the realm of being in our comfort zone. Anything on either side of this comes across as a miracle, a fluke, being on, being off, or sometimes an outright aberration. However, for most of us we continue to stay stuck in the confines of mediocrity; within a few shots either side of our comfort zone. Our actual comfort zone can actually be pin pointed to a single score.
Finding Your Comfort Zone – page 279
Our Comfort Zone is actually comprised of a single score, while our general Comfort Zone in golf may on the surface appear to be three or four strokes either side of our actual Comfort Zone. It’s easy to find this single score. Once we find this score, we acknowledge it, know longer are we disillusioned or in denial. Applying the Mental Edge Golf Technique (MEGT) to our Comfort Zone can be a very enlightening experience.
It’s important for you to know your own Comfort Zone, without any self-deception, in order to start the process of lowering it. I also suggest you complete this procedure on a daily or perhaps weekly basis. How much time you invest in your own mental game is a direct match to what you reap.
Imagine lowering your Comfort Zone by a few strokes, or even a single digit or two. In the world of professional golf, the difference between averaging 69.5 and 70 could very well be millions of dollars. For many it’s the difference between making the cut, or not?
Here’s how you find your Comfort Zone. For the actual process of lowering it, buy the book, or let me Coach you.
Step One: Pick a score that is several strokes higher than what you normally shoot on your home course. The idea being that the first time you finish the statement, you will feel confident; it will feel true for you.
Example: I would pick 83 and begin there. If I were to play only 9 holes I would pick 42. Eighty-three, and forty-two is much higher than I normally shoot.
Step Two: Complete the following statement and then answer yes or no.
Statement: “I am confident I can consistently shoot _____ 83, answer (yes).
Step Three: Keep on repeating this process, one stroke at a time lower and you will get a feel for your own game. Keep on doing this until you get uncomfortable and you can no longer with 100 percent certainty say that you can consistently shoot that score.
Example: “I am confident that I can consistently shoot _____ 83 (yes), 82 (yes), 81 (yes), 80 (yes), 79 (yes), 78 (yes), 77 (yes), 76 (ah…no, can’t quite claim 76 consistently).” So, shooting 77 is my actual Comfort Zone number. The score just above where I could no longer say I can consistently shoot. Shooting a 76 (trombones) raised a doubt in my mind. I’ve just discovered my Comfort Zone. Have I shot 76 before, certainly! I also shot a few 70’s, 71’s, 72’s, 73,’s, 74’s, and 75’s. Besides my Comfort Zone limitation, shooting in the 60’s is also one of my self-limiting barriers that I wish to break through. I’ve only done it twice in my life.
Note: Disappointment is the understanding that we have settled for less than what we know we are capable of. Knowledge of this is critical to your ongoing and ultimate success. Most people want to think they are better than what their Comfort Zone tells them. It is okay to feel this disappointment. You’re supposed to feel slightly upset with yourself that you are not quite playing golf to your full potential. That’s what this book and my message is all about.
So, now that you know this what do you do to improve? One must change their internal programming in order to change what they get. It starts with your thoughts. You must create new thoughts that support your intention. What is your intention? What is your goal? What do you desire to experience yourself as? The MEGT will give you, your mind, body, and soul an opportunity to change and create new focus and beliefs.
In order to change, you’ve got to change your own internal paradigm. You’ve got to acquire new neurons and pathways to emerge from your new thoughts. You’ve got to believe it and practice it everyday. You’ve got to imagine the event happening already and it will find you. You’ve got to allow it to happen, and you cannot force it. You’ve got to feel it and actually become it before it has even happened. You’ve got to act as if it is already so. Then, the field of quantum mechanics and physics becomes a match to you.
My whole book can be summed up in one sentence – I’m gonna be a 5-handicap golfer…by July 4th. The time agenda need not be there either…I just didn’t want to procrastinate. Once I became a 5-handicap I set a new intention. “I’m gonna be a 2-handicap by the end of summer.” I ended that year at a 1.2 handicap index.
From this statement of intention, you don’t have to know how. Okay! Why, because that’s how The Universe works. The how’s will be shown to you when and only when you have fully committed. If you see the steps of how it’s unfolding, then that’s not it! Trust it, and it will unfold without your knowing of how. It will come even more wonderful than what you may have imagined. That’s exactly how the how’s started coming into my experience. The end result was even more incredible than I imagined it to be.
And – even before I set the intention, if I hadn’t done the internal work within myself, I wouldn’t have been able to get to the point to actually believe and trust the Universe / God in this process of creation. It would have been all woo woo kind of stuff, which most likely is for many of you. So, I get it…and each is on there own journey. There are plenty of paths, no one path better than another. I just share my message and what worked for me and believe me, I have dealt with plenty of demons and challenges and adversity on my way – and still do! It’s about keeping on!
Like I state in my book, The Fairway of Life, if you set an intention, or dream your dream and end up saying…but, or yeah but, or any number of negative statements, you end up killing the whole thing. I also give an in depth technique to lower our comfort zone. Like anything else, few will do it, some will only listen, and others will do nothing at all.
Life is like a circle. It is as simple, and as complex as that!
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