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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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How much quality time are you putting into your golf? How much practice time? How much mental practice time? Are you aligning with the flow of Well-Being and letting it happen, or are you struggling against the grain? Are you having fun? Is becoming a better golfer really one of your hearts desire?
All my life I wanted to be a better golfer. I worked really, really hard at it. I beat balls until my hands were bloody. I wiped the sweat off my brow so I could hit some more balls. I kept hoping I would find that magic elixir, the Holy Grail of being able to be in the groove with just the right swing. Year after year I kept getting the same results…until I had a breakthrough.
You see…what it takes is really putting forth the energy – much more than just playing and practicing. Sure, just doing it a lot will get you better results. I was just doing it a lot and it got me to about a 3-6 handicap in my prime. When I didn’t play or practice all that much my handicap would sore up to a 10 or more; I could barely break 80 anymore. Then I decided to recommit myself. I decided to trust the Universe with the power of intention. I decided to delve into my inner demons and really get to the heart of my fears. Yes, it is fear that holds many back from achieving their full expression on the golf course.
Fear of any kind is the number-one enemy of all golfers, regardless of ball-striking and shot making capabilities.”
—Jack Nicklaus
Therefore, if fear is the number-one enemy of all golfers, and who wouldn’t believe the #1 golfer of all time? Then, wouldn’t logic tell us that it is our fear, our inner demons that need to be worked on?
Although I knew this deep down inside – that I played scared golf some of, well probably much of the time to be honest. It took me many years to really, really get it. I needed to own it. I needed to embrace it. I needed to really observe myself and “be with” my fears and simply notice them. For what you look at, disappears. This is one highly effective technique that I use whenever I can. Does it always work like a miracle? Of course not! Yet, the key is to get back in the game. When you commit – I mean fully commit to your desire to play better golf, miracles will happen and you will be shown how. I was practicing and searching for the how before going within myself. I learned you don’t need to know “how,” that it will be shown to you.
The rest of my program is really designed to keep adding more and more beneficial beliefs to our own subconscious mind, which runs everything in our life, including our golf game. Beneficial beliefs gradually squeeze out the negative ones. You really become a new you – if you so desire to invest in yourself. It takes daily commitment. And I know most are unwilling. For those willing to put forth the commitment to playing better golf I invite you to follow me on facebook and on my blog at www.golfissupposedtobefun.com and please interact and post your comments. Together we can!
Be as you wish to seem,
Rand Marquardt
Spiritual Life & Mental Golf Performance Coach
New program begins January 1, 2011
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The Power Lies Within YOU!
Always has been…and always will be.
What is your greatest ambition in life and for your golf game?
What kind of a golfer do you know yourself to be? What do you want?
I came to this decision after years of trying very hard to work on my game – with very little to show for it. If only I could find that magic swing. If only I could drop into the slot. If only I could stay behind the ball. If only I could finish my swing; not be so nervous; remember what I’m doing; be on plane; figure this game out… If only I…
One day while in the middle of an intense internal “spiritual processing” program I announced that while I was here to work on my own internal understandings about God and about Life I also stated that it would be nice to play better golf too! It was if I was too afraid to ask to become a better golfer, ashamed of my fears – hiding behind an insecure little boy. All those years of trying so hard to figure it out – beating one range ball after another. The thought of becoming a better golfer kept coming up and I couldn’t deny it any longer. It was like, hmmm… perhaps this is another reason why I am here as well? I finally asked one of my Life Coaches about it while walking downstairs in a hotel while going to another processing program. Jim asked me what’s holding me back? I said I guess it’s my fears and afraid to play like I know I am capable of. He said, “Can you be with that?” Wow, no one ever gave me that kind of answer. Can I be with it?
As the 33 straight days of intense Life Education Program ended I came back home from my little cocoon, and gradually integrated myself back into “normal” society. Whoa, what a trip! I probably felt a little bit like Ricky Williams, the Miami Dolphins running back when he was off doing his healing and cleansing at his retreat, not too mention what Tiger is going through right now. It’s about coming clean, being authentic, and open to new understandings about life. Anyway, I took in quite a bit of stuff, to say the least. I also learned or was reminded about The Power of Intention, and to trust the power of The Universe, which at one time might have seemed more like the genie with the magic lamp – airy fairy woo-woo stuff.
After all this, I was now “ready” to put this stuff into play. It felt kind of like a test, like okay let’s give this understanding a real life experience. Let’s set a powerful intention. Let’s announce and declare, express and experience, become and fulfill who I really am. The “announce and declare” stuff is what I did. “I’m gonna be a five handicap or less by July 4th.” It stunned me to say this out loud. These are my words, my declaration, and my intention. I knew that you don’t have to know HOW, or BE READY. You just have to set the intention, commit fully, and really trust. That whole summer became an incredible roller coaster ride that tested my resolve, my fears, my acceptance, my perseverance, and my trust. I simply noticed, observed, and allowed whatever to come up, come up. Needless to say, my handicap steadily dropped from a 10 to a 7 to a 4.3 by July 4th. I then proceeded to set a new intention, “Okay Universe, awesome, I’m grateful…now I’m going to be a 2 handicap by the end of the summer.” I ended the summer at a 1.2 handicap.
The trick is learning to maintain an unwavering focus
upon your desired end result, your completed dream, the “finish line,”
without insisting upon, or even contemplating, its means of attainment,
no matter how logical, obvious, or tempting it may seem.
–Totally Unique Thoughts
This was and is my reality and my truth. What works for you, will be your reality and your truth. I’m simply inviting you to get in the game in a new way versus trying so hard to figure it out. Or perhaps you think you’ve already got it figured out? Is it working? That feeling of surrender and letting go, and letting God is what it was like for me. I tried the “I’ll figure this out path for 35 years.” Remember: The Power lies within YOU!
Three levels of awareness: I also see how this evolution and growth works in everything in life, including our golf game. Where are you?
1. Hope – I hope to make a thing happen, but it might not. I sure hope it does.
2. Belief – I have faith a thing will happen. I feel certain it will. I have faith in the outcome.
3. Knowing – I know a thing will happen. Knowing is a statement of fact. The energy of knowing is more powerful than any other energy in The Universe.
* Golf: I love it when I know I will sink this putt, stiff this shot, or hit a great drive!
Be as you wish to seem!
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