{"id":794,"date":"2011-03-31T15:29:10","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2015-03-07T21:46:05","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T03:46:05","slug":"correct-thoughts-produce-correct-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/?p=794","title":{"rendered":"What The Mind Sees… The Mind Does"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cDON\u2019T HIT IT IN THE POND ON THE LEFT\u201d!\u00a0 \u201cDON\u2019T HIT IT IN THAT BUNKER ON THE RIGHT\u201d!\u00a0 These are very familiar thoughts during the course of a round.\u00a0 I have thought them; you have thought them; everybody that plays has thought something similar at some point on the course.\u00a0 The problem with these thoughts, as innocent as they seem, they even seem encouraging when thinking them, is that the mind does not recognize the \u201cDON\u2019T\u201d part of the thought.\u00a0 Even though you are trying to encourage a good shot the attention is directed to the hazard whether it be water, sand, trees, out of bounds or what have you.\u00a0 The focus of the mind is the hazard not that you don\u2019t want to hit it there, just the fact that the focus is there.\u00a0 The mind then executes the thought, absent the \u201cDON\u2019T\u201d, so in translation the driving thought of the swing you perform becomes, \u201cHIT IT IN THE POND ON THE LEFT\u201d!\u00a0 And that is what happens over and over again.<\/p>\n

What is necessary is a mindset that does not recognize the hazards but puts the focus on the truly desired result.\u00a0 A thought similar to, \u201cI want that ball in the middle of the fairway, I don\u2019t care how it gets there\u201d<\/em>!\u00a0 A thought like this allows the performance mind to create and perform a swing that will produce the result.\u00a0 Now sometimes the ball will end up where you want with a shot that is not considered \u201cgood\u201d,<\/em> this is the hard part.\u00a0 When you achieve the result you desire, the way it happens needs not to matter.\u00a0 If you allow yourself to concern yourself with \u201chow\u201d<\/em> it happened more than you concern yourself on the result, the mind will loose focus on the results you desired and focus more on the technique you \u201cthink\u201d<\/em> you should have used to create a \u201cbetter\u201d<\/em> shot.<\/p>\n

When you are trying to break 100, 90, 80 even 70 results are what are going to take you to the next level.\u00a0 There is an old saying that goes similar to this, we are not drawing pictures on the scorecard, just writing down numbers<\/em>.\u00a0 No one cares how you shoot a score that is lower then usual, they just wish they could have done the same.\u00a0\u00a0 I promise there are very few times one is happy with the way they played, regardless of the score and when one is, it does not last long.\u00a0 This holds true at every level, when you break 100 you are going to want to break 90, when you shoot even par you going to say, \u201cI could have easily been under par\u201d.\u00a0 This is evident in most interviews after a tour event, many tour players say. \u201cThey left some out there,\u201d they could have gone lower.\u00a0 We are all in the same boat!<\/p>\n

On the golf course, and in life, results are first scripted in the mind.\u00a0 If you can learn to see what you want to happen in the mind first, the desired result follows.\u00a0 I ask you to change your mind to see or at least think that what you want to happen will.<\/p>\n

Learn to experience the power of the mind!<\/p>\n

There is no real reason that you can\u2019t play better golf!\u00a0 If you want to, than you will!<\/em><\/strong> We will start providing videos and products, here at LGL that will give you the tools to get as good as you want.\u00a0 Keep visiting and participate in upcoming surveys.<\/p>\n

Good Golfing,<\/p>\n

JB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  \u201cDON\u2019T HIT IT IN THE POND ON THE LEFT\u201d!\u00a0 \u201cDON\u2019T HIT IT IN THAT BUNKER ON THE RIGHT\u201d!\u00a0 These are very familiar thoughts during the course of a round.\u00a0 I have thought them; you have thought them; everybody that plays has thought something similar at some point on the course.\u00a0 The problem with these […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[12,10,18,17,29,15,24,9,16,23,33,13,11,14,7,36,34,31,32,8],"class_list":["post-794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iblogit","category-rx-fundamentals","tag-be-a-better-golfer","tag-better-golf-scores","tag-better-golf-swings","tag-better-your-golf-swing","tag-easy-golf","tag-golf","tag-golf-blogs","tag-golf-instructions","tag-golf-news","tag-golf-swing-analysis","tag-golfing-mind","tag-how-to-improve-your-golf-swing","tag-improve-your-golf-swing","tag-learn-to-golf","tag-livegolflessons","tag-live-golf-lessons-online","tag-lower-your-score","tag-mental-game","tag-new-post","tag-online-golf-lessons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=794"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":797,"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794\/revisions\/797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/livegolflessons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}