Change your identity

Imagine if you will, your current golf game  as a canvas, upon which the brushstrokes that you have made on the canvas were your experiences, beliefs and emotions.  Basically you have painted a portrait of your golf game this season on the canvas in front of you and now you are looking at your creation.  Many golfers believe this is basically fixed and although they want to see greater change and better outcomes for the game they love to play, the admit the change they want to see is not happening as quickly as they want.

But if I what if I were to reveal to you that this canvas is not fixed, it can be changed. A new dynamic masterpiece can be created consciously and reshaped to fit the new picture or canvas you want to create. This is the essence of shifting your golf game to the new level of performance you want to see. For you to become a better golfer, you’ll have to change the identity of who you are. This will take an inner change; your inner identity shift of who you think you are, how you act, and how you react.

This is known as a process, where you are intentionally altering the beliefs about who you are and consequently your place in your every day life especially in your golf game, which will start to change.  I coach the swing to players and talk about process oriented practice and outcome oriented practice.  So this process is a little different than what I have written about before, but it is very important non the less!

When you change the perception of your identity, you then are changing things that you have managed to manifest. This simply means that if you want to create new outcomes for your golf game, you’ll have to create a new identity in your conscious mind of who you are.

Your old limited thoughts and beliefs have led you to where you are now . Consequently, new empowered visions emotions and beliefs will have to be intentionally created on purpose.

The question is, are you ready to begin a new journey that transcends the old you and awakens a new you, which has new potential and new outcomes? These new outcomes and  potentials are awaiting you. All that is needed as for you to identify with this new golfer for you wish to be.

You have to awaken the new potential of who this new golfer is. You must do this consciously and with tremendous intention. You cannot go about your day or the every day golf like that you were used to doing the same old things. Practicing the same old ways and expect new outcomes or better outcomes for your golf game....as you know the old you or your current identity needs a face lift!

Carrying around your old negative patterns of thoughts and beliefs is like you are carrying around an old golf bag. This bag was dusty and sat in the corner of your garage. You look at it you know that’s out of style, outdated. You know you need a new golf bag, but you choose to just continue to use the one you have out of habit.

This habit using this old bag has to be broken.

You have to make a conscious choice to get a new bag, one that is vibrant,  exciting and one that you really look forward to carrying when you play golf

So, as you can see to change your golf game in this example, your mind and mental attitude and outlook is like this old golf bag. The golf game you have needs changed. This will take a conscious effort on your part to change who you are in your golf game.

As I have talked about many times in my blogs here, golfers, get stuck in a rut of poor practice habits, and in general just go about doing things the same old way. Even if you are taking lessons and golf instruction, that alone would not guarantee the true potential of change for your golf game.

Changing your golf game will have to come from within also. The point of this message today is to show you that you must make a conscious choice to be a new golfer a new you. Changing the self  habits of thought and actions that you have taken will take discipline.

I think, deep down most golfers know that the attitudes that they have about themselves and beliefs in themselves, would not reflect what they see a very accomplished offer do. The issue, or the problem stems from a lack of discipline upon the golfer to take charge of their mind, and how they think and react to different situation, whether it be practice on the range or playing on the golf course.

So as the fall of this year is in full bloom at this time, it’s a good time for any golfer to reflect on this golf season that is coming to an end. Have you the golfer really had an empowered mental outlook for your golf season in 2023?

If not, then, a good starting point would be to begin to write down the aspects of yourself or your golf game that you don’t like. By doing this, you can see the habits that you’ve created, and the identity of who you are at this time.

Upon reflection of this, you’ll then know or have a sense of the identity of a player you want to be in 2024. Changing a golf game is a matter of changing your life also. This means that not only might you have to practice more or play more efficiently, but also you’ll have to change the mindset, or identity of who you are.

I’m sure as a kid when you were younger, you could imagine yourself making the winning putt in the U.S. Open or at The Masters. When you were imagining that, you were imagining someone greater than who you were at that moment. You were trying to foresee the new you years in the future of being the GREAT golfer.

As you head into this late fall and winter, the time is here again for you to look at your golf game like you did when you were a kid. For you to become successful beyond what you think is possible from what is behind you in 2023 you’re mine will have to have a new identity an outlook for 2024.
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To change your game for next year you will have to change your identity. The old you from 2023 cannot step forward into 2024 if you really want to see significant change to your golf game.

To change your golf game, you must change your identity.  It is that simple mental idea and concept that I encourage all golfers to embrace!