My summer

Testing….Testing…

Is this thing on? Sorry, it’s been a while and just wanted to make sure this thing still worked.

Long ago, I learned from golf that as soon as you think you have things figured out, you learn that you don’t. And while this may no longer apply to golf for Dee and I, we are the Golf Fitness Guys after all!, it certainly applied to the last year of my life. I thought I had my neck figured out last fall…I didn’t. So after a rough patch, I’m back to where I can spend more time working on a computer and I couldn’t be happier to return to blogging.

I thought long and hard about how I wanted to return, but I ultimately decided that having a big return is making more a deal of it that it really is. It’s like a New Year’s resolution. I don’t know the statistics, but I know that most New Year’s resolutions fail. I personally have much more success when I just decide that I am going to try and do something more often. I’ll start today, and then I’ll try to keep it going as long as I can. I feel that with this approach it is much easier to get back on track after inevitable slip ups. Or, maybe a more golfy example, it would be like stepping up to the first tee with the goal of hitting every green. This is a lofty and difficult goal because there is so much pressure associated with each shot. A better phrased goal for golf would be, “I’m going to try and hit this shot as well as I can.” Realistically, if I hit it solidly, and I pick the right club, and the right shot, then it should hit the green. But it doesn’t create the same internal environment as if I start out on the first tee with the goal, “I will try to hit every green.” Think about it this way, you don’t go to the range and say, “I’m going to try and hit every green.” You go to the range and hit a shot. In order to perform your best you should practice how you plan to play and imagine that when you play it is just like practice.

In my case my thought process goes like this. “I’m going to blog today.” I’m not going to make an outrageous claim to blog every day or even every week. I’m just going to blog today, put blogging back in my mental picture and on my to do list. I’ll start taking notes when I read, teach, or watch golf of topics that I would love to share.

Check back soon for tips from Dee and I to help your game.