What’s The Shot I Know I Got?

by Chris Dorris on May 15, 2012

Michael Allen

 

As a Personal Transformation Coach, I work with folks on retraining their minds so that their minds SERVE them.

As a Mental Toughness Trainer, I do a lot of work with golfers on reprogramming the mind so that it serves to access deeper levels of athleticism and excellence and mastery.

Today I want to address one very specific moment that is SO critical to success in the game of golf. It’s the moment when the players decides what shot to play.

The operational word in that sentence, of course, is DECIDES. But golfers, even at the highest levels, often do not decide on the shot they are going to execute. Instead, they kind of, sort of get, like, an idea of what, you know, might be a good play here, maybe.

There’s no more powerful state for a human to be in when performing than the ALL IN state – or the DECIDED state. Knowing. Doubtless. And all states are simply a choice away. We choose the state from which we operate. (That rhymes. That’s catchy.) So when playing golf, when deciding what shot to play, DECIDE. Get infinitely committed. Don’t “try”. Don’t “hope”. Decide!

The skeptic might ask, “Well how in the heck can you just “decide” where the ball’s gonna go?! There are so many variables that are out of your control, like wind and where the ball lands and divots, and your swing, and blah blah blah…”

And the answer is: “How could you possibly “decide” that you’re going to successfully drive your car to the golf course?! There are SOOO many variables out of your control like traffic, all the decisions other drivers make, accidents, car jackings, road rage incidents, alien abductions…”

The point is, we are capable of existing in the decision state regardless of the fact that there are variables beyond our control that could easily influence the outcome. State doesn’t depend on anything external!

And here’s one tidbit that’ll help you, the golfer, get into that decision state when choosing how to play each shot. Ask yourself the question, “What’s the shot I KNOW I got?”

Play the shot that is the easiest to fall in love with. The shot that you know you could execute 8 out of 10 times. The one that takes the least effort to feel confident about. There are occasions in which the situation requires you to take risks, yes. But most of the time, that’s not the case. So barring that, ask yourself, “What’s the shot I KNOW I got?” And play that one.

Create miracles!

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Being Certain in an Uncertain World

by Chris Dorris on March 14, 2012

 

I got pulled over the other day. Decided to try something new with the cop. He came up to the car and told me I had been speeding. I asked him if that was, in fact, his observation, that my velocity had been exceeding the legal limit. He squinted at me a little and said, yeah.

So I ask him if he’s familiar with the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle. He said no. I explained to him that that principle shows us that the energetics involved in the act of making a conscious observation of something changes either its velocity or position in space-time. Therefore, we could never know if I really was speeding since the act of him observing me altered either my speed or where I was in the world.  We just couldn’t really be sure if I was, in fact, speeding.

That didn’t really work out the way I thought it would, but it did give me an idea for my next blog post.

Here’s the paradox:

What we can know is that we can’t really know anything.

We live in a world that is characterized by uncertainty. We can’t know that the sun will “rise” in the east tomorrow. We can only have a high degree of certainty around that based on our historical observations. However, there’s an interesting thing about the human mind. The mind permits us to act as if we know even though we know we can’t know. In other words, even though science show us that we can’t really be 100% certain about anything, we can still get ourselves into a state of absolute certainty about something and act from that state. Which is actually quite cool, given that when we do that, we are more masterful at whatever it is that we’re doing.

I go to stand up out of my chair. I am so certain that I will succeed in standing up that I don’t even consider the possibility of failure. That’s the knowing state. It is possible that at the moment I go to stand up I could have a stroke, my friend could have walked into the room silently and could hold me down in the chair, the chair could break and I fall. There are an infinite number of possibilities that would have the result of me failing to stand up in that moment. But yet I am certain that I will stand, so I have no hesitation and I stand with doubtlessness and fluidity of motion. It’s a masterful act because it comes from a place of pure doubtlessness or knowing.

I want to apply this to everything I do in life. I want to reprogram myself to operate from the knowing state with the things that are most important to me in life. I want to be certain in an uncertain world and create miracles.

I cover this thoroughly in my audio program, ALL IN! Here’s a link where you can get access to that program: (clicking the link will open a new tab)

ALL IN!

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