Golf lessons for improving your life

My husband plays golf.

He is totally self taught these last three years. This weekend he did 18 holes and achieved a 92. The beauty off that score is that he tied with my dad who has been playing for over 20 years.

So you don't play golf and don't know if that is a good score. I don't play either, but my husband was excited about his score. It signified improvement. After a couple of years, he looked back and saw improvement. Yes, you read that right. A couple of years of very part time practicing and he has shown improvement. Let those ideas sink in for a moment. Learning any new skill takes time to be reliably proficient.

One significant trick he did share with me has to do with focusing your effort. First consider that he has educated himself on the game. Videos and books on improving his game fill our library. The obvious implication here is that he uses them regularly to feed his mind with the valuable information the professionals have to offer. However, the trick is to take your information and pick one area you want to work on improving. For example, he would take one tip on a particular golf swing and memorize it. He would focus on that one tip during his warm up. He takes that tip and uses it on the course. He doesn't focus on his score. His focus is on improving that one swing. He analyzes what he was doing before and if this new technique is working for him.

In business and in your personal life, you may have a long list of areas you want to improve. Educate yourself in the new habit or skill you want. The focus. By concentrating on improving small areas at at time, you will be rewarded for your consistency of focused effort.