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Deepak Chopra, MD

You see everyday life as a lucid dream, incredibly vivid but still an illusion. You can actually, magically improve the dream without getting trapped in it if you know the method.

Joy becomes the only measure of success because your essential nature is ‘Joy’. Pleasure is the beginning and endpoint of every journey. (Golf can be your unique ‘Journey’!)

You understand what it means to thrive. You savor the diversity of life, which brings richness to your ever unfolding story. There is a “Light That Lives”!

PLAY IN OR OUT OF ‘THE UGLY ZONE’
Create Real Tolerance For Pressure!

One must practise and learn how to recover from ‘Golf’s Valley Of The Shadow Of Death’! We shall unavoidably come head-long into trials and tribulations. One’s ‘Ugly Zone’ and ‘Self-Esteem’ must become immunized and grow to be comfortable bedfellows. Human conditioning!

What is the insurance key? An ever-present professionally resilient ‘Pre-Shot Routine’! Don’t short-cut as your critical mind and conscience will know if you cheat!

The Challenging 'False-Hope Syndrome'.

Documented cases of this psychological problem have indicated that the issue might be the result of setting expectations too high. Overconfidence might hinder your ability to succeed. ‘Pie In The Sky’ goals can become obstructionary and counterproductive.

Think about how you practise. Start with the putter and work up from there. Try to set small and more easily measurable goals as your foundation. You will remember that “A Chip Is A Putt With A Hop!” The ‘Pre-Shot Routines’ are very similar! Having more attainable goals helps you feel more likely to improve. (see ‘Micro & Macro’)

How many of us have dumped a ‘Small Bucket Of Bullets’ on the driving range grass and hit all of them too quickly without ‘Plan or Purpose’? There will usually be about 50 balls in a small to medium bucket. That being the case, you will have ‘10 Reps Of 5’ at your feet.

Is this ever genuinely efficient practice? Sorry but your ‘555 Team’ refers to this as “Golf Masterbation”. Not much purpose … certainly not honing ‘Playing Skills and Mentality’!

How often do we get ‘Mulligans In Play’? Seldom if at all, right? The one that’s done counts!

Firstly, your expectations must be realistic and very results oriented. To precipitate this end, establish a written point-form game plane with a defined timeframe. Monitor your progress.

Do you know that expectations can be negative stress generators? No point in inviting ‘Negative Energy’. You know that a ‘Negative pH’ is heading you into the ditch? The opponent you do not want to meet in the battle ring or stage is yourself!

Break your expectations into easily-managed ‘Time Task Units’.

Proper Set-Up – A Chip Is A Putt With A Hop

Ensuring your Set-Up is correct and consistent is ‘Job #1’. The winner’s opportunity! Once your Set-Up positions or criteria are established, you can focus on the quality of the procedure and actual ‘Swing Energy’. (see ‘Body Clocking’) Putting and Chipping are both ‘Stage One’ … No Wrist Cock or Pivot … very ‘Quiet Triangles’ and passive ‘Lever Assemblies’. You can execute these two procedures with ‘Irons, Fairway Metals and Hybrids’. The latter two implements, due to their deep flat, trim tab soles, tend to slide, glide and pinch through the ‘Impact & Separation Zone’. This is a powerful weapon procedural asset that provides predictability and consistency!

If you want to be successful and respected, ‘Solve The Problems Of Others’, “Continually”!

If you help clients (or strangers) to succeed, you shall be rewarded.

A key in this life’s equation is ‘Gratitude & Reverence’.

Enjoy both!

Not magic but pivotal! Just ‘Bread & Butter’ with some honey! It stands to reason that a ‘Proper Set Up’ with all your golf clubs is an ‘Essential Element’ on the road to success. For one to enjoy golf to its fullest, repetitive procedures matter. Might I keep this discussion sensibly simple?

What if we were to ‘Set-Up’ all our golf strikes, regardless of which club we are using, (Putter To Driver) using the same basic technique and sequence with small variations as required for precise mechanics or execution due to club length? All golf strikes are well-served establishing and maintaining a precise ‘Bottom Of Swing Arc’ (BOSA). Worthy of mention … our general, one-handed Target lateral location ‘BOSA’ is directly under the Target Shoulder Socket. The central location is ‘Sternum or Spinal Column or Axis’. ‘Mid Collar Bone’ commonly efficient.

We dedicated, current and proficient pilots often accomplish flight tasks “Habitually” by using the ‘Flight Deck Autopilot’. The process includes defining needs and selecting tasking. Turn the knobs. Then press the appropriate buttons! Our autopilot is like a spare flight crew … highly beneficial to reduced workload in the real world!

In an alternative parlance, we need to learn how to get or make golf procedures ‘Subconscious - Habit’ rather like a ‘Human Auto-Pilot’. Good conditioning (training) definitely means reduced stress and minimized fear! Good performance attributes when sitting in the left seat or swinging a golf club right or left-handed are within your grasp so reach out!

If we can understand ‘The 5 Set-Ups and Mastering Golf Basics’, we will be able to make sound golf strikes. With proper preparation and conditioning, if we can make one great swing and golf shot, we can make them repeatedly! How about some great drives ‘On Demand’? You up for that? Your ‘555 Golf Team’, as we have done for thousands of clients over decades, can show you the light and the way! Simplicity rules! “I Drive As I Putt!” is realistic and sincere! A drive is really a very extended putt. You will soon get this human truth!

Think about the ‘Upper Body Machine’ (UBM - Shoulder Sockets, Upper Arms, Elbows, Forearms, Wrists, Hands and the actual Golf Club). We must very much control this ‘UBM’ major golf aspect or cooperative. The sibling aspect is, of course ‘The Lower Body Machine’ (LBM - Feet, Knees, Hips, Core Vertebral Column, Shoulders, Neck and Head’)

When Set-Up at either Address Ready or Impact Fix, ones ‘Lever Assembly Triangles’ (UBM) must be very ‘Quiet’ and nonmanipulative. You do not want overly active Shoulder Sockets, Elbows or Wrists’. (see ‘Primary Articulating Joints’ - PAJ) If this errant blight infects your golf swing, you shall be overly challenged in making on-line or on-target strikes. If you visualize your ball flight in your ‘Pre Shot Routine’, you might as well stop wasting your time and energy! ‘Probability Of Success’ (POS) shall just be a cancerous myth! If you are fortunate, it might just be a benign participation!

UBM PAJ movements directly bastardize ‘Club Face Aim and Clubhead Path’. Of course, so much for ‘Ball Flight Performance’. You and the 555 Team agree that the game is really about ‘A To B’ or relatively straight lines? Strive to see and feel them cooperatively evolve!