Here I’ll be discussing things I’ll be doing and reading to live a life worth living. Socrates said that “an unexamined life is not worth living” so we will be examining our lives and making sure they are worth living!
Living Life On Purpose
Living a Life of Quiet Desperation
In our Mammalian brain we are always moving away from pain and fear and toward pleasure. Moving away from fear and pain is often a bigger motivator than moving toward pleasure, especially for those who lack a Vivid Vision of what they want.
Always be sculpting the vision of the future you want but be aware that most of the world will not be pursuing HUGE goals with a passion for fear of failure. Most people are just operating moving away from their fears into a comfortably numb state of existing where they are living but not thriving.
Here is a resource I found that addresses some of these issues in a little more detail and I will follow up with my answer to it in my next post, living life on purpose.
Acceptance = Responsiblity = Control
Bob Rotella the mind guru and sports psychologist to a good number of the players on the PGA tour says “Acceptance is the last step in a sound routine.”
You hit the shot yourself, so at some level you have to own up to it. If you don’t, that means that you are giving circumstances control over the outcome instead of taking control yourself. If you are still thinking about something that happened in the past, you can’t fully be focused on the present.
Changing a golf swing or a business practice or your life means aligning yourself correctly and working on the right things for a long enough time to start seeing results. There is no magic pill that can change an inconsistent swing into a consistent one. It often takes as long to dig yourself out of a mess as it took to get yourself in it.
You must do the self assessment to realize that where you are is not where you want to be. Often that is something that is hard for an individual to do and that is where a good coach can come in.
It is the job of your coach to help hold the mirror up to you so you can better see what is not so visible from the inside looking out. If you don’t have a coach you may start with your spouse. No one knows you better, cares about you more and is more concerned about your future than they are.
Beyond that, getting a professional coach that knows your industry and knows you can really be that boost that you need to set you on the path to winning in 2019.
ALIGNMENT AND YOUR WHY
Alignment-
This often overlooked part of the golf set up is the most prominent cause of a good player developing a faulty swing.
Good golfers can repeat the motion over and over again with amazing accuracy, but if they get just a few degrees out of alignment it can cause the ball to miss the fairway or the green and end up in the water, sand or even out of bounds. The player, not realizing that he is misaligned starts messing with an otherwise sound golf swing in order to get the ball back on line and can develop some really bad habits that disrupt what was a very sound motion turning it into an out of balance and out of rhythm lashing at the golf ball.
In sales, you’ve got to have goals and know what it takes to get there. When things are at their worst, you have to have a bigger reason that will keep you going even when you don’t feel like it.
There are always going to be obstacles and setbacks in golf, sales, and life for that matter. No one has ever shot 18.
You have got to have career and a purpose that is aligned with you on a deep level. Something that is greater than just money. It really needs to be something that resonates with your soul.
That is where having a really good WHY comes in.
Stay tuned for the next post- Finding Your Why.
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