How's Your Golf Swing?

"You must have a clear mental picture of the correct thing before you can do it successfully." Alex Morrison (expert golf teacher)

Morrison, widely known as the most successful golf teacher during his time developed a system of using the imagination to get what you say you want out of your golf game.

Rather than focus on skill development, which I’m sure he did at some point, he explained that the best use of the golfer’s time was to develop a clear mental picture of the correct thing FIRST. When you think about how the club feels in your hands after an amazing swing, where the ball goes on the green, and how you feel after an amazing time on the course, you download a program into your mind about how to be successful.

If you focus your thinking on HOW to swing, HOW to get the ball down the lane, and HOW to finish under par, you won’t be as successful.

So, how does this apply to leadership?

You spend your time wither thinking about what you don’t want or what you do want. Default or design.

• The difficulty of the problem OR the opportunity your team has to solve it
• Not knowing the BEST way to do something OR doing your best and figuring it out as you go
• Avoiding the work OR facing it head-on

When you spend time THINKING about what you really want, you change your feelings, values, and beliefs (i.e. YOU) and your behavior changes and the results you want to have a way of ‘magically’ appearing, almost as if you did nothing to make it happen.

How much time do you spend thinking about what you want and don’t want? Know yourself!