Battle Tough

There will always be tests in your growth -- on and off the golf course. Sometimes you will find one particular test that is especially tough to overcome. But it is these tough trials that create situations that will ultimately develop patience and fortitude. These times will develop your inner character which will serve you so well in the tournaments and tougher times ahead. These trying times of change are strength builders, and even when you don't like the path you are on, you have to be willing to let the situation strengthen you into a better player and a better person. The trial is a test for your character. Human nature and ego want to be impatient. Sometimes you need the long way around instead of the short cuts. The challenges that you face with a change in your golf swing will be all the more worthwhile if you go through the growth period.

Frustration just shows your unwillingness to go through the fire. Once you quit the fight that you put up to change, the surrender becomes a welcome to the change. You will always be tested in the areas that you need the work the most. Your weakest points have to be exposed. The more you try, the worse it gets, and you can't even fake it. Looking at a situation from the other side is often an interesting prospective. What if you happen to get to the finals of the State Amateur? Or you get to the Horse race next year in your Member-Guest Tournament. Wouldn't it make sense to apply yourself to waiting out the changes and the uncomfortable feelings that your body and mind are trying to figure out?
 
Often, the future may hold something you had better be prepared for. These changes may bring out impurities of your swing, but isn't it better in the long run to be rid of them instead of having one more round with no confidence with your driver or a certain iron shot that just always seems to ruin a good score?

We are all like a lump of clay, we need to become soft so that the potter can mold us. Your golf swing is no different. There are times that I hear my students saying; "I just can't". I see that as one more opportunity to let go and become softer to change. The first place to become unbounded and unlimited is your thinking. Quit looking back at those bad shots that happen during change and understand that each bad one will bring you one shot closer to greatness. When you drive in your car you have this big front window and this little bitty rear view mirror. That's because what is in your past isn't nearly as important as your future. 
   
You don't ever have to be an average golfer, don't settle for just breaking ninety or eighty. There is a golf game out there that you may think is perhaps way beyond your wildest imagination. Not so, I have seen golfers do amazing things by the seed of believing that they can; by pushing through and toughing out the changes that had to be made to get to the next level level. They broke the negative cycle and they never look back.

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