What you say out loud and, in your head, will expand in your golf game. The more you talk about a thing the more you are attracting it into your round. Think about this for a moment: do the people who always talk about slicing it ever stop? Do the people who always talk about being bad putters ever have 24 putts in a round?
Now that you have decided to improve your mental game and you are serious about it, you are going to have to start taking control of the things you say. You have to decide to speak well of yourself and stop unnecessarily putting yourself down. You are not pretending you are perfect here; you are simply realising that it cannot possibly be helpful to allow the sound of you moaning about every area of your game to vibrate through your body and mind.
When we think about how the subconscious mind works, this makes taking control of the words that we are using even more important because that which is repeated to the subconscious mind with power and intensity becomes reality. The words that we are saying with emotion are always finding their way into our subconscious minds, staying there and ultimately becoming part of our golfing identity.
In your golfing life so far, you have probably been ‘trying’ to improve your mental game, right? You’re ‘trying’ to improve your chipping, you’re ‘trying’ to improve your accuracy and you’re ‘trying’ to hole more putts. Imagine for a moment what your golf game would be like if you stopped ‘trying’ to do things and you just did them. If you are persistent and disciplined with yourself to eliminate the word ‘try’ from your vocabulary then you will train your mind to be the type of golfer who decides to do something and then does them.
Every word you say to yourself on the golf courses matters.
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