What You Think Will Make You Who You Are . . . .

Motivational Power Quote

What You Think Will Make You Who You Are . . . .    

“Your thoughts control your life.”

Robert Stuberg, Expert on personal and professional success   

As I see it . . . . . . .

What you think will make you who are . . . .

I would like to share a story that I recently had with a professional golfer.

He had just returned home from the previous weeks stop on the tour and I was in town on business and we decided to meet at Starbucks to catch up.

He is an exceptional professional golfer and can hold his own against the best of them.  

We were talking about his year on the tour and how he had done the previous week and his response stopped me in my tracks. He responded to me and said “I just can’t putt” he followed that up and said I can hit the long one as good as anyone on the tour, but “I just can’t putt”.

After we talked for a short time I asked him a question.

The question was what do you think about when you’re lining up the putt? His first response to me was, I’m looking at the line that the putt will take and I play the line over and over in your mind before I putt.

I asked him are you thinking about anything else? He thought for a few moments and replied that he was also thinking about not missing the putt.

I asked him another question, did he ever think about missing the putt either when he approaching the golf ball or getting ready to putt? Again he thought for a few moments and said that he did.

Here’s the key question, I asked him if he thought about not missing his putt as he prepared himself to putt and he said no.

With a few additional questions and conversation he said that he had hit a rough spot the few months on the tour and had missed key putts.

He has convinced himself that he could not putt and focused on not missing the putt, hot making the putt. What he was doing was focusing on a negative of missing the putt.

We talked for awhile about changing the conversation that he was having with himself. We spoke about focusing on sinking the putt and lining up the putt in his mind and hitting the golf ball and watching falling into the cup.

Also we spoke about the next that he thought about missing the putt, to step away from the golf ball and visualize the dropping into the cup.

The following week he approached his putts by lining them up and visualized successfully sinking the putt.

He played that vision back in his thoughts several times before he took him putt. Yes he had a much better week.

What you think makes you who you are and in some cases a better professional golfer.

©2011 Lou Ludwig, Sales and Management Consultant, Success Coach, Speaker, Trainer and Author