Start Being So Childish…
Yesterday My daughter Learned to ride her bike for the first time…
I lifted up the stabilizers so she had to get used to her balance, she did that for a little while, and then she said
take them off,
She struggled a bit and then she sussed it.
Now the thing is, her determination would have outlasted anything that I was saying, anything that anyone else could have said, she was just adamant
“No I’m Gonna Do This”
Every time she fell off. She said something,
Pick the bike up and had another go.
She just kept going.
With everything that's going on right now.
Sometimes we need a childlike attitude.
Just to fall and then
GET UP, FALL, GET UP, FALL
and just say to yourself “I'm doing this no matter what”,
As adults We're more worried about one little failure, how it looks to others, what it says about us, then to act like a kid and just keep going.
As a kid,
You don't even think about the mistakes because your eyes are on the prize, your eyes are on the target.
My daughter yesterday just wanted to ride the bike with no stabilisers so that was her target.
She wasn't thinking about anything else. And then she did it.
So how could you take a childlike mind and turn that in to a reason to get what you want?
To Just say to yourself, “you know what, this is what I'm doing. And I don't care how many times I fall, I'm just going to carry on”
Think about how many times people have started fitness routines since the lockdown started (this time and the first time).
How they’ve said they were going to take action, how they said they were going to do this and do that and they start something…
they miss, or fall and it falls to pieces.
What if those same people just kept going.
What people struggle with is the commitment side of things, and keeping yourself accountable.
This is why the “function” part of the fairway four system is so crucial
How can we link all of the targets we want outside of golf “TO GOLF”
Just link what you're doing now, where you want to go, the mindset you need and a skill set you need, to golf, and your obsession with golf, and you will get the results.
If the last thing you want to do is exercise.
You're not going to exercise.
However, if the last thing you want to do is exercise, but know that leveraging your mindset is what gets you to do the exercises that make your golf better then,
Game over…
So If it makes you hit the ball further it could means,
you're going to be closer to the hole which means,
you're going to have a wedge instead of a nine iron,
which means you can get closer to the pin,
which means you're more likely to win your match.
Then it brings on a completely different focus.
So where are you right now, acting like an adult when you'd be better off acting like a kid.
If you want to join a bunch of adults who think “stop being so childish” is a compliment and want to improve your body and golf at the same time, click the link below.
John Seton