In this insightful episode, Karl interviews Howard, who shares his long journey in the world of golf. They reminisce about their early days, discuss Howard’s influential book 'The Making of a Coach,' and delve into the inspiration behind it, catalysed by personal loss.   Howard narrates his life filled with valuable lessons learned from family, the impact of influential figures in golf, his experiences with player coaching, and his time at various prestigious golf clubs. His stories highlight the evolution of golf coaching, the importance of understanding individual player needs, and the profound impact a coach can have on a golfer's personal and professional life. The episode also touches on Howard's late-in-life reconnection with his faith, bringing full circle the theme of life's purpose and the lasting influence of dedicated mentorship.

00:00 Introduction and Early Friendship
00:42 Inspiration Behind the Book
02:36 Early Life and Family Background
04:19 First Steps in Golf
06:17 Challenges and Lessons Learned
08:50 Turning Professional
15:09 Coaching and Mentorship
16:34 Impact on Irish Golf
28:57 Mastering the Short Game
30:40 Lessons from Henry Cotton
32:19 Innovative Coaching Techniques
35:16 The Importance of Impact
37:24 Holistic Approach to Golf
49:45 The Role of Faith in Life and Golf  

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In this episode, Karl Morris invites Howard, a seasoned radio host, comedian, and avid golfer, to discuss the intricacies of the mental side of golf.   

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Howard shares insights from his multifaceted career, his experiences in various golf competitions, and how he transformed his approach to the game from one of frustration to enjoyment. 

The conversation delves into the parallels between performance in comedy and golf, the importance of being present, and the journey of separating self-worth from performance outcomes. 

Howard also highlights key influences like Dr. Raymond Pryor and Fred Shoemaker on his mental game and offers listeners practical advice on embracing the challenges of golf with a positive attitude.

00:00 Introduction and Warm Welcome
01:00 Howard's Diverse Career Journey
03:51 The Mental Side of Golf
05:43 Personal Growth and Golf Epiphanies
12:06 Stand-Up Comedy and Golf Parallels
17:13 The Importance of Presence in Performance
24:21 A Tough Day at the Qualifier
24:48 Embracing Positivity and Encouragement
25:29 A Heartfelt Email and Personal Growth
26:11 Reflecting on the Journey and Achievements
26:39 The Paradox of Selflessness in Golf
27:13 Learning from Mentors and Personal Evolution
28:30 Finding Joy Beyond Scores
30:15 The Art of Practicing Golf
32:02 Facing Fears and Embracing Challenges
32:56 Overcoming Self-Loathing in Golf
34:04 The Importance of Enjoying the Game
35:48 Tinkering with Technique and Equipment
38:27 The Philosophy of Golf and Life
43:56 Final Thoughts and Takeaways
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The Skill of ACCEPTANCE and why it is SO important to develop – Karl Morris

Why you will always fall short of your true capability without this skill

Thanks for joining me on today’s Brain Booster which is a solo run from me. I wanted to take the opportunity to bring together some of the key concepts from the previous months and some of the recent guests.

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At the heart of so much of what we have been discussing is the SKILL of acceptance.

If we are not willing to be ok with the variability of potential outcomes the game can throw at us then we will always be at less than our best.

Acceptance is NOT resignation. We are not trying to pretend to be happy after a bad shot or a missed putt but we ARE willing to deal with the reality and move on

So many people are sold the idea that this swing fix or this ‘secret’ will PROTECT them from a poor outcome yet in reality NOTHING will ever protect us from the need to develop a robust relationship to undesired outcomes

• Acceptance is an ongoing set of skills that requires a diligent and consistent approach
• Today I will share with you the building blocks of acceptance
• Skills that have helped many players at all levels to ACCESS their current skills
• Why the skill acceptance begins well before the round starts
• Why ‘contamination’ of your shots is such an issue
• The value of journaling
• Why making a commitment to develop acceptance is so important
• What acceptance does to your physiology
• Why the expression of your technical skill is dependent on your acceptance skills
• An opportunity for you to really bring together and clarify some of the key Brain Booster concepts of the previous few months
• HOW you can actually take action and release more of your capabilities ....Enjoy!

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Today we welcome back onto the show Jon Sherman author of the brilliant ‘Four Foundations of Golf’ and his latest book ‘The Foundations of Winning Golf’

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We had a wonderful conversation all about competing in tournaments. What we discussed is so relevant to anyone wanting to get the best out of their game when it really matters.

The great thing about John is that he shares so much of his own personal experiences and challenges playing at a very high level of amateur golf

His first book has had a major impact on golfers all over the world and his website Practical Golf is a veritable mine of great information.

He also has a wonderful podcast which I have been invited onto a couple of times called ‘The Sweet Spot’ with Adam Young

 

Today we have a slight change in focus with our guest but one that nevertheless you will find fascinating and a great inspiration Mike Moir.

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Mike is the CEO of the highly renowned clothing brand FENIX

I met Mike recently at the PGA Conference in Thailand

He was one of the main speakers and what he had to say had the whole audience in the palm of his hand.

He gave a very emotional description as you will hear today about how he managed to build his business despite tremendous personal and social challenges.

Issues with his own health and then a global pandemic that tragically took the life of one of his extremely valuable team members.

• Mike’s story is one of resilience and determination
• He was a very promising young player in the north of Scotland
• Went to America on a scholarship but struggled to make the progress he wanted
• Eventually turned his attention to business and began a journey of self discovery
• The journey to South east Asia
• We talked about what it takes on a day to day basis to ‘stay on the path’
• The importance of valuing other people
• Building a great team ethos around you
• Having clarity of PURPOSE

Listening to Mike you will be inspired to get clarity on your own purpose and what it takes to succeed in the tough world of business

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On today’s show we have former BBC sports presenter Simon Mundie who has recently released a tremendous book called ‘How to find success without losing yourself’

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Simon has spent many years interviewing and being around some of the greatest names in sport.

People who have achieved what others may think as being the ‘ultimate’ experience

Yet often he detected there was an underlying dissatisfaction

Champion Thinking is a counter to the ‘success evangelism’ that is so prevalent.

Typically, we think we’ll be happy when X happens (the job, house, relationship, World Cup win, Olympic gold medal). However, frequently people reach the top of their success Everest and feel underwhelmed or even empty.

But the experience of flow is inherently enjoyable. Why is that? Because as thoughts about past and future drop away, so does our identity and sense of self. And we love it when that happens! The trophy is just a symbol of that moment. That’s why we love losing ourselves – in sport, music, conversation, books, dance – the portals are vast.

While we think we want to become a ‘somebody’, we are happiest when we experience being ‘nobody’. On that level, we are always at peace, whole and fulfilled. The trick then is to embody this recognition, even when we are not 'in flow', and this book can show you how.

This is a great conversation exploring some of the deeper topics around our experience.

• What is ‘non duality’?
• How can we incorporate this in our everyday life?
• What is the difference between our ‘thinking mind’ and our ‘observing mind’?
• How to create some separation from our thoughts so we don’t get so caught up in the content of our thinking
• What are the best way to set goals?
• What does make us truly happy?
• A really thought provoking session from someone who has been able to see through the illusion of ‘I will be happy when”

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C Champion Thinking is a counter to the ‘success evangelism’ that is so prevalent.

Typically, we think we’ll be happy when X happens (the job, house, relationship, World Cup win, Olympic gold medal). However, frequently people reach the top of their success Everest and feel underwhelmed or even empty. 

But the experience of flow is inherently enjoyable. Why is that? Because as thoughts about past and future drop away, so does our identity and sense of self. And we love it when that happens! The trophy is just a symbol of that moment. That’s why we love losing ourselves – in sport, music, conversation, books, dance – the portals are vast.

While we think we want to become a ‘somebody’, we are happiest when we experience being ‘nobody’. On that level, we are always at peace, whole and fulfilled. The trick then is to embody this recognition, even when we are not 'in flow', and this book cg is a counter to the ‘success evangelism’ that is so prevalent.

Typically, we think we’ll be happy when X happens (the job, house, relationship, World Cup win, Olympic gold medal). However, frequently people reach the top of their success Everest and feel underwhelmed or even empty. 

But the experience of flow is inherently enjoyable. Why is that? Because as thoughts about past and future drop away, so does our identity and sense of self. And we love it when that happens! The trophy is just a symbol of that moment. That’s why we love losing ourselves – in sport, music, conversation, books, dance – the portals are vast.

While we think we want to become a ‘somebody’, we are happiest when we experience being ‘nobody’. On that level, we are always at peace, whole and fulfilled. The trick then is to embody this recognition, even when we are not 'in flow', and this book can show you how.

 

Today we welcome back onto the Brain Booster my good friend Jim Waldron.

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Jim has had a BIG input on players who listen to the show and I wanted to get him back to talk at more length about a subject that is unfortunately very relevant to a LOT of golfers the YIPS.

We had another wonderful conversation about how to dig yourself out of the doldrums if you are being affected by the yips in certain parts of the game.

• We discussed why the yips are becoming more and more prominent these days.
• Why an overload of technical input can be so damaging to your game
• How poor chipping concepts are often the cause of the yips to start
• Why we tend to fall into the trap of extremes
• Being able to find the ‘middle way’
• How your unconscious mind is trying to PROTECT you from outcomes
• Separating your sense of self from golfing outcomes
• How golf can be a vehicle for psychological transformation
• Letting go of the sense of ‘I am not good enough’
• Peer group approval  and why it is hard wired into us
• The journey of golfing evolution
• The process of self contemplation

A wonderful conversation with a truly great coach who has made such a difference to golfers and their experience of the game

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Why IDENTITY is so important to your development as a golfer

Facing up to your FEARS and shattering the illusions of what the game means to us

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Today we have a wonderful conversation with Jay Carter who is the National Coach of the New Zealand golf team.

Why does New Zealand punch above its weight in terms of producing great sports men and women?

The influence of the ALL BLACKS

It was a very open conversation about his own struggles as a player and some of the deep thinking he has done about what actually makes a difference to players who want to make the very best out of their development

Why context is so important and how the brain responds differently depending on the environment you are in

• The limitations of data taken out of context
• The need for curiosity and exploration
• Why your IDENTITY as a golfer is so important and will influence everything you do
• Being clear WHO you are
• What have been your influences?
• What about your ancestry?
• Your culture?
• Can you see golf as an opportunity to explore?
• Can you be creative with what you do in your TRAINING?
• Could you get out onto the golf course with more purpose and engagement?
• Why do people make such good progress in Martial Arts and yet often stay the same in golf?
• Separating SKILL from technique
• Ryan Fox and the influence of the conversations around the All Blacks

A really interesting conversation with a top coach who is passionately involved in trying to help golfers get better.

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On today’s Brain Booster we have one of the world’s leading experts on hypnosis, Dr David Spiegel.

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David Spiegel is one of the United States’ most respected experts in the clinical uses of hypnosis. He is Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University and directs the Stanford Center on Stress and Health and Center for Integrative Medicine. David has over 40 years of clinical and research experience studying psycho-oncology, stress and health, pain control, sleep, hypnosis, and psychotherapy for cancer patients.

We had a fantastic conversation with David about what hypnosis is and perhaps more importantly what it ISN’T

The origins of modern hypnosis

• Why hypnosis can work when other modes of therapy may not
• Hypnosis is a state of highly focused attention
• Cognitive flexibility – trying out being a ‘different person’to solve the problem
• How Tiger Woods developed his mental game with hypnosis
• How could you utilise hypnosis for your game?
• How you can begin to trust your BODY more instead of always interfering
• How you can devlop a program of self hypnosis
• The benefits in making changes with hypnosis
• A wonderful conversation with a leader in his field
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Today on the show we welcome Mike Carroll one of the top golf trainers in the world who has had tremendous success with players at all levels but more recently his app ‘Fit for Golf’ has had phenomenal worldwide success.

We discuss Mike Carroll’s essential message:

• Make fitness and training part of your IDENTITY
• Otherwise nothing will stick
• How you can utilise your existing habits to enhance the habit of training
• The importance of DOING something every day for your physical fitness
• Once that basic is in place you can then BUILD and build to gain some fitness momentum
• How we can navigate our way through the excess of information out there
• The BASICS of health and fitness REMAIN the same
• The two Keys of Muscle Strength and VO2 Max
• One day of RESISTANCE training
• One day of cardio vascular training
• How strength training can DIRECTLY improve your scoring potential
• How you can improve your flexibility through strength training
• The importance of stressing your muscles appropriately
• How you can accumulate ‘good days’ from a strength and fitness  perspective
• What gains can you STILL make at 50, 60 or even 70 years of age?
• How fitness can be such a positive benefit for your mental game
• The sense of DAILY achievement
• Building momentum on a consistent basis

A really great session with a top coach who is having a major influence on so many players all across the world with his Fit for Golf app

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Today on the Brain Booster we have a live recording of a webinar I conducted with Raymond Prior.

The event was over subscribed with people trying to get into the Zoom call after it was full.

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Raymond and I collaborated on what we believe to be a ground breaking project called ‘Building Stable Confidence’

It is a program that has had wonderful reviews and could be a wonderful assistance this year to help you get the best from your game.

During the webinar we discussed the key concept of

‘Separating SELF from CRAFT’

How can we develop the capability to create some space between our capability as a golfer and our self image as a human being

How being ‘concerned’ about our value as a human is tied to our evolutionary development

The early messages we receive as youngsters from important people around us and how this can weave into our identity

• The need to develop a ‘SAFE PLACE’ to play from
• How our performance can become a THREAT to our identity
• How this leads to unstable confidence
• Why your relationship to the game can become so toxic

The necessity to ask yourself the question ‘Why do I play golf?’ Not to take your initial answer but to look deeper to what is REALLY important to you

• What are your INTRINSIC and SELF DIRECTED values to play the game?
• Challenging your core BELIEFS to see if they REALLY work for you
• The fragility of EXTRINSIC values and why you can never ‘get enough’
• The need to JOURNAL your experiences and why that is so important
• What am I committed to TODAY?
• Think about WHY you play golf WHEN you play golf
• Being INTENTIONAL and on purpose

This is a wonderful session with Raymond and Karl as they go into some real detail as to how to get the very best from your game

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 Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by an extraordinarily special guest Dr Ellen Langer

Dr Langer has been one of the most influential people in the world of psychology over the past 40 years

She was the first female tenured professor in psychology at Harvard

Has written numerous books

She has conducted so many incredible experiments, most notably the ‘counterclockwise’ experiment where she had older men go into a ‘pod’ that took them back to their younger selves.

The results as we find out today were extraordinary

She has been studying Mindfulness for the past 35 years and makes clear that mindfulness is NOT meditation

Mindfulness is being aware of what is ACTUALLY happening as opposed to what we think is happening based on our auto pilot responses

• Why we need to realise that we DON’T know
• How our assumptions keep constantly tricking us
• How research only gives us PROBABILITIES not absolutes
• The ‘counterclockwise’ study and the amazing possibilities that open up
• Is ageing a direct consequence of our beliefs surrounding what we believe SHOULD be happening?
• Can we think ourselves WELL?
• Can we think ourselves SICK?
• What living a mindful life looks like

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The Essence of Being: Insights on Authentic Self and Performance

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In this thoughtful conversation, host Karl Morris welcomes Garrett Kramer to discuss recent developments in Garrett's life, including personal projects and the release of his latest book. 

The dialogue delves deep into the philosophical and practical aspects of self-awareness, the search for fixes in sports and life, and the pursuit of excellence. Garrett elaborates on the role of coaching, the illusion of seeking external validation, and the true nature of human consciousness. 

The discussion highlights the importance of expressing one's true self, the misinterpretation of insecurity, and the holistic connection between mind, body, and nature. 

Through engaging anecdotes and profound insights, Garrett emphasises the difference between seeking external success and finding inner peace and fulfillment.

00:00 Welcome Back, Garrett!
00:19 Life Updates and Exciting Projects
01:08 Golf Memories and Family Moments
02:47 The Endless Search for the Next Fix
06:58 The Role of Coaching and Pursuit of Excellence
09:10 Understanding True Self and Inner Peace
10:12 The Coach as a Guide and Mentor
11:37 The Illusion of Fulfillment in Achievements
16:26 Exploring the Nature of Self
29:24 Expressing True Self Through Sport
35:17 Superman's Realization and Insecurity in Sports
35:52 Federer, Nadal, and the Spirit of Competition
36:34 Golf as a Cooperative Challenge
37:39 Embracing Adversity on the Golf Course
38:51 Personal Golf Anecdotes and Lessons
41:16 Expressing Self vs. Seeking in Golf
44:49 The Illusion of the Outside World
47:01 Strategies and the Purpose Behind Them
59:04 Knowing Thyself: The Ultimate Goal
01:03:00 Conclusion and Book Information

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How could online coaching make a REAL difference to your game.

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Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by top coach Ryan Mouque who has built a really outstanding career online as a Skillest coach

He had a background playing Rugby League in New Zealand

We talked about the difference in other sports regarding specific training

How we need to be much more specific about our training plans

Being aware of what would ACTUALLY make a difference to our scoring

Developing a tremendous online business

How Ryan took adversity in terms of a job situation and turned it around into a fantastic online business

• The plus factor in online coaching
• How communication can be so much stronger
• Creating better accountability
• Understanding what drills are ACTUALLY effective
• How to train your own SKILL
• Knowing what SHOTS you have on a given day
• Work with opposites to balance your game
• How to make practice more challenging and engaging
• What are the best ways to speed up your swing changes
• Taking swing changes to the golf course

A great session with a really forward thinking coach

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We welcome back onto the Brain Booster Andy Morrison for a further chat about his coaching experiences

We delve further into the nature of experience and how it is all generated by your thinking

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Andy is very prolific on Twitter/X

His main message is that he offers the opportunity to develop your game without using lots of mental game strategies and techniques

• Why we fall into the trap of focusing too much on the CONTENT of our thinking
• This often actually creates the opposite effect of actually making the mind even busier
• What could we put our faith in that will have some longevity?
• What is the true nature of thought?
• What is actually creating our experience BEFORE the content of our thinking?

The difference between having a clear INTENTION about the shot as opposed to falling into the trap of thinking ‘what does this shot say about me?’

• How we hang on to our ‘personal thinking’
• Changing our relationship to what the game actually means
• The ability to ‘stay in the game’
• Why trying to ‘fix’ our thinking can be so detrimental
• A really interesting session with a coach working with players at all levels of the game

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Today on the Brain Booster we welcome onto the show long term Mind Factor client Bronte Law. Fresh from her recent victory on the Ladies European Tour with a stunning final round in Morocco of nine under par.

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We took a wonderful trip down memory lane to Bronte’s early days as a junior player in Cheshire

How she has stayed with the same coach Richard Green all through her career from the age of 7 until the present time.

• Why it has been so important to work with someone who REALLY understands her game
• To have a coach who keeps pushing her forward to develop her skills
• But also to have the confidence as a coach to keep it SIMPLE
• How a simple text message can keep a player on track

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• Looking at all aspects of the game even from a very early age.
• The desire to be a professional golfer and pursue a dream
• Spending time with a legend of the game and former Masters Champion Ian Woosnam in Barbados
• The effect of being in the company of excellence
• Observing a true shotmaker and artist of the game
• Being clear on what a good day looks like in terms of training and application
• Accumulating GOOD DAYS
• The benefits of starting the day REALLY well
• Playing competitive golf ON THE GOLF COURSE
• The role of crucial decisions to influence the path of your life

A great conversation with a top player who has battled back from some adversity and some poor form to challenge again at the very highest levels of the game.

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Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by Andy Mathews from Neuropeak Pro

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It is a fascinating story.

Andy is a tournament player himself and relates how understanding HOW to breathe more efficiently made such a difference to his game

Since joining Neuropeak Pro he has become the breathing coach to many of the worlds very best players including Viktor Hovland and Jordan Speith

• We discussed the mechanics of effective breathing and what it does for your game
• Why most people are breathing incorrectly
• Why the rate you breathe is so important
• How your breathing is like a metronome for your brain either giving signals to avoid or pursue 
• Controlling the STRESS response
• Why your physiology will determine how well you can co ordinate your movements
• How effective breathing can help the response to poor shots
• How to train your breathing in a systematic way with just 10 minutes a day
• Make SIXTY good breaths a day and you will totally reset your system
• Understanding the importance of Heart Rate Variability 
• The difference between trying to control your breathing as opposed to trying to control our breathing 
• How breathing is the link between conscious and unconscious processes
• How better breathing can transform our sleep
• The application of effective breathing in other sports and how it can influence RECOVERY
• The THREE foundations of effective breathing

A really insightful conversation with so many practical applications to your game

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The opportunity for the coach of the future

What is technology going to do to the future of coaching?

More importantly what can we DO to be ready and to offer great EXPERIENCES to our students

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Today on the Brain Booster we welcome back coach Will Robins who has been working closely with the PGA of America over the past number of years coaching professionals on how to deliver more EFFECTIVE coaching

We had a great conversation looking at how technology will impact the future of the game

What will AI do to the coaching model?

Yet there is still a wonderful opportunity to help players on the GOLF COURSE

Finding out what is TRULY happening on course as opposed to what we think is happening

Getting the very best from your CURRENT level of skills

We looked at:

• The Art of scoring
• The Art of Playing more freely
• Better thinking
• Better strategy
• Dealing with your tendencies
• Finding ways to engage more with the golf course and not just playing golf swing

 

Will is a real free spirit with a very creative mind and an ability to see future opportunities when others only see problems

If you are a coach or a player you will gain so much by questioning HOW and WHAT you deliver in your lessons

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Today on the Brain Booster we welcome back a wonderful guest in Dicken Bettinger.

Dicken completely changed his approach to psychology after meeting Syd Banks and understanding the ‘Three Principles’

He then spent over twenty years studying with Syd and is now acknowledged as one of the world’s leading teachers of the principles.

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During a very wide ranging conversation we discussed the ideas of Mind, Consciousness and Thought

• How we spend so much time trying to ‘control’ things with the intellect
• Trying harder
• Thinking more
• Being so involved with our thoughts
• Trying to ‘change’ our experience
• Why the intellect alone cannot solve our problems and issues
• Understanding what WISDOM is and how we can learn to trust it more
• A deeper intelligence when we are fully PRESENT
• A quiet mind that is FULLY PRESENT
• A KNOWING that cannot be explained
• How to access true WISDOM
• How the intellect creates tension and upset
• The limitations of trying to ‘think’ positive
• No human being can ‘think’ their way to contentment
• The ‘NO THOUGHT’ state
• What is it?
• How is it accessed

A really wonderful conversation with Dicken to get you to consider just how much our intellect is trying to run the show.

There is another way and Dicken explains beautifully what it is

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 How to find out what is RIGHT for you!!

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 The need to adapt coaching depending on the level of the student

 The need to be flexible in your approach

 Today we are joined on the show with a true great of coaching, Jim McClean.

 We had a wonderful conversation

Over his illustrious career he has sought out and worked with some of the best coaches of all time

Coaches such as Jimmy Ballard, Ken Venturi, Bob Toski, John Jacobs

He has also taught himself some of the greatest players in the game.

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We discussed in this episode:

• How Jim’s coaching has evolved
• The use and misuse of technology
• Video, Trackman, Force Plates the benefits and drawbacks of using technology
• What are the common factors with great players?
• The 25% Theory – Which is the most important for you and WHEN?
• Ball Striking
• Short Game
• Mental Game
• Management Game
• How can you better manage BOTH your game and your life?
• The genius of Bruce Lietzke and how a great PERSPECTIVE can give you access to your skills
• The benefits of understanding YOUR shot shape 
• The need to develop YOUR philosophy 

 

Jim has taught and influenced some of the very best players in the world

Jim McLean has taught US Open Champion and LPGA Champion Cristie Kerr, US Open Champion Gary Woodland, Curtis Strange and Greg Norman, PGA Champion Keegan Bradley, US Junior champion and ANA Champion Lexi Thompson. Cristie and Lexi both attained the #1 rank in junior golf and women’s amateur golf as teenagers. 

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Today a slightly different show with a solo effort from myself. I have had a few people ask me recently to clarify some of the key ideas from the Mind factor trainings so here we go.

What path are you ACTUALLY on?

Could you embark on a ‘path to mastery’ as opposed to being on a path of fear, anxiety and avoidance?

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• What game are you ACTUALLY playing?
• How is the game of golf occurring for you?
• Are you allowing golf to be a judgement on your VALUE as a person?
• Does the golf course appear as a threat or an opportunity?
• How can you change your ‘story’? A story that is holding you back
• What do you want to really experience with your game?
• Understanding what TRUE GRATITUDE actually is
• Why gratitude is a PERFORMANCE state

In this short session we explore some really important territory and ask some question that are not ordinarily asked of golfers.

Yet if we don’t ask these questions we will NEVER get to the real source of performance and perhaps more importantly what is holding that performance back.

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Today we welcome back onto the Brain Booster my good friend and legendary coach Jim Waldron.

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Jim has been on the show a number of times and there has always been a wonderful response to his words of wisdom.

He has an incredible background in his coaching development over many years looking into all areas of the Mind Body connection

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We discussed in great detail perhaps the most overlooked opportunity to improve your game.

The 90% of golf that isn’t golf!!

We spend so much of our golfing time NOT playing golf and yet how many golfers really look into what is happening during this time and HOW they can maximise their experience?

I have long contended that the quality of what you do in the 90% will have a DIRECT influence on what you do when it comes to play your shots.

We discussed:

• The value of being EXTERNAL in between shots
• Making a conscious decision to connect with the beauty of the golf course
• Connecting and coming to your SENSES
• The connection with the ‘Power of NOW’
• Losing your absorption in your own SELF
• Connecting with other people and how this can cross over into your life
• Your behaviour in between shots and how this becomes totally unconscious
• The pace of you walk and the ‘Mind Body’ connection
• The danger of focusing too much on OUTCOMES

How tuning into your external world helps you LISTEN to the golf course. Being attuned to your ENVIRONMENT and then being able to RESPOND to that environment

• The value of good conversation and being WIDE with your focus
• The feeling of ‘lightness’ and how that can help you get into the shot
• Moe Norman and ‘positive indifference’
• Random reinforcement syndrome – what is it and why do we fall into its trap

It is such a pleasure to speak to Jim

He has such a wonderful INTENTION to help golfers

You can only benefit from is wonderful wisdom.

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Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by Scott Dixon a top coach from Dalmahoy in Edinburgh.

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We had a wonderful conversation about his journey as a golf professional.

How in the early days he had no instruction, developed a great love of the game.

Then turned professional and began to take LOTS of lessons and receive so much information about what he was doing WRONG.

Over a period of time his game got worse and worse and eventually he developed the full swing yips.

Things changed for Scott when he met Kendal McWade who has been on the podcast many times.

They started to explore a more instinctive way of playing the game

The looked at ATTENTION and where to place your attention to hit SHOTS

Why we need to keep coming back to attention and its vital role in skill development

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•  Technique but technique born out of the TASK
•  The transformation of his own game and his own experience
•  Exploring his own ACTUAL experience
•  Developing SHOTS
•  What is really going on when you hit a good shot
•  The JOY of hitting different shots and giving himself the FREEDOM to explore
• The experience with the golfing MONK
• Learning and then teaching meditation
• Playing golf from a QUIET place 
• His evolution as a coach
• The challenges of changing his approach
• The absolute JOY of creating shots

A really fascinating conversation with a coach who has been brave enough to challenge his own beliefs and go directly to his own EXPERIENCE

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Today on the show we are joined by former European Tour player and coach Paul Affleck
Paul played for a number of years on the main tour after winning the Challenge Tour to secure his playing rights.

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We had a wonderful conversation about his development as a player from the early years as an assistant at Heswall Golf Club under the tutelage of Alan Thompson 
Playing in the Open whilst still working in the Pro Shop

Life as a tour player and how using an ‘Inner Game’ technique gave him access to his best skills 

How searching for better ‘technique’ with a well known coach took his game completely off track 

The development of a really great short game and how this was SHOT lead 

Paul is a really deep thinker about the game and has been heavily influenced by the time he has spent with multiple time Mind Caddie guest Kendal McWade 

The courage to do things differently 

Why you might consider a 10 finger Baseball Grip 

Exploring different ways to apply the club to the ball
Hovering the club above the ball and the freedom this creates 

The joy Paul has now on the golf course being creative 
Exploring shots not just swings 

Enjoy listening to a top player and a top coach

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Happy New Year to everyone and welcome back to a new season of the Brain Booster.

We get the new year of to a great start by welcoming back a good friend of the show and top coach Adam Young

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Adam has produced some wonderful material over the past few years including his wonderful book ‘The Practice Manual’

He has a tremendous ability to simplify what we need to pay attention to as golfers and how to get the absolute maximum from our practice time.

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How can we REALLY simplify the game to make significant progress?

We explore in great detail THE BIG THREE of impact and why they are so vital to your improvement

Virtually EVERY single shot you have hit in the past that you don’t like will have been affected by one of these three factors

• Club Face Orientation
• Strike Location
• Ground Contact

Yet so often we then focus on almost everything else to try to find a solution.

Yet if you can stay with the BIG THREE you will be dealing with actual evidence from the scene of the crime IMPACT

Why are we trying to master the swing when it can NEVER be mastered?

Yet we can move in the direction of mastery with the BIG THREE

We can aim to have so much more fun in practice as we EXPLORE our capabilities around these areas.

• Can you present the face slightly open?
• Slightly closed?
• Off the toe?
• Off the heel?
• Now you can find the middle
• Now you can find SQUARE

We got to explore so many interesting avenues in this conversation and I believe it perfectly ties in with the Mental game Big Three of Intention, Attention and Attitude

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I have just collaborated with Raymond Prior on a program that I believe is a must for anyone serious about developing their game.

‘Building STABLE confidence’ is a video/audio/ slide program that will give you the true inside track on how to systematically build this VITAL component.

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• Good players equally miss the fairway both left and right
• Why meditation can make such a difference
• How to reduce the emotion with decision making
• The ‘Tiger 5’ and what you can learn from perhaps the greatest of all golf minds
• Why simplifying the game is so necessary

So it was wonderful to welcome Raymond back onto the show to discuss more around this fascinating topic.

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Amongst other things we discussed:

• Why playing in poor weather can actually help you build resilience
• How learning the game in ‘perfect’ conditions could actually be detrimental
• How entitlement can be such a dangerous mindset to developing golfers
• The entertainment industry and how certain performers are able to ‘access’ their true skills
• Performance anxiety in the acting world
• How social media drives an over attachment to results relative to your peers
• How you can be BOTH grateful AND competitive
• What anxiety REALLY is and more importantly how to sill perform in its presence
• Why STABLE CONFIDENCE is so important to be able to access your skills
• What are the ingredients of stable confidence?

 

This is such an important episode with so many valuable nuggets to work with.

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It is the perfect time of year to work on these ideas.

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Today we welcome back onto the show Scott Fawcett from Decade golf.

He is someone who has made a significant contribution into how we think about the game.

His system DECADE golf helps you make informed decisions based on reality as opposed to how we ‘perceive’ reality.

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We had another brilliant and fascinating conversation

We discussed:

• Why it is so important to go with ONE shape of the tee
• The absolute need to avoid the ‘double cross’
• Why you can’t ‘eliminate’ one side of the golf course 

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• Good players equally miss the fairway both left and right
• Why meditation can make such a difference
• How to reduce the emotion with decision making
• The ‘Tiger 5’ and what you can learn from perhaps the greatest of all golf minds
• Why simplifying the game is so necessary

A great session

Your game cannot help but gain some benefit from Scott’s knowledge and wisdom

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Today we welcome onto the Brain Booster a wonderful guest in the shape of Dr Ed Coughlan

Ed is one of the leading experts in the world on Skill Acquisition who works with a number of top DP World and PGA Tour players.

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We had a wonderful conversation about the very BEST way to get the most from your practice time

How to be able to TRANSFER your practice to the environment called Golf Course.

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• We talked about the need to understand CONTEXT when we go to practice
• How to create a really productive environment to TRAIN
• Why we need to practice in a way that helps us train our BEHAVIOUR
• Scoring yourself as opposed to just the task
• Being OK with ANY outcome and why that is so important
• How behaviour is the TRUE source of consistency
• The freedom of ADAPTABILITY and letting go of the myth of CONSISTENCY
• Stop trying to block thoughts and emotions
• Planning your training relative to the tournaments you play
• The importance of practicing the RHYTM of the game
• How to Mind your THOUGHTS and your WORDS
• The need to understand the difference between Careful, Carefree and Careless
• Being very careful with the people you surround yourself with
• The vital need for effective reflection

 

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Today on the Brain Booster we welcome the authors of a fascinating new book ‘In the Zone Secrets’

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Bo Watson and Shannon Shuskey have been very successful with their program with clients of all levels and abilities

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It is a really interesting story about how they got together and began working on their program.

Bo Watson had actually given up the game and quit coaching

He had gotten to a point where he felt so frustrated with his own game and also the progress of his students.

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He had a conversation with Shannon over dinner that changed everything.

Shannon had been incredibly successful Speed Skating coach with numerous students who had become World Champions

He had been using neuromuscular training using primarily the power of mental imagery

Bo then went away and worked on his game without doing any actual physical practice

He then came back to golf and played some of the very best golf of his life.

We discussed:

• How to play ‘Caveman Golf’
• How to create a ‘Custom Trigger’
• Engaging the right side of your brain
• Painting vivid images of your intended outcomes
• How mental rehearsal has been used by the greats in many other sports such as Michael Jordan and Muhammed Ali
• How the great coach Alex Morrison in the 1940’s had such a profound effect on coaching
• How mental rehearsal can speed up swing changes

 

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Today we welcome back onto the Brain Booster long standing friend and colleague Kendal McWade.

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Kendal has been on the show numerous times and I have invited him back because we always have a wonderful conversation.

We managed to dive deep into the whole area of building SKILLS. How ATTENTION is so crucial to your development.

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We talked about what you could ACTUALLY do this winter to work on your game in a more effective way

• The skill of bringing your attention to crucial key areas to develop true skill
• Why we fail to apply basic learning principles
• The importance to see golf as ‘problem solving’
• Why we don’t understand the learning process

Today we welcome back onto the podcast top coach and researcher Dr Ian Peek.

Ian has just completed his PhD after doing extensive research on the key elements that seem to determine if a pro makes it on tour or not.

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• What do the top players do?
• How the very best are so skilled at ADAPTING relative to the field they are playing against.
• The Four ‘Acts’ of a top player
• The Rookie Act – Discovering who you are
• Moving ‘Upstage’- Finding the right team
• The Limelight Stage – Staying with a winning team
• The challenge of making changes WHEN and HOW
• The importance of the people around you
• Do the people around you give you energy or take energy away from you?
• The sometimes difficult decisions you have to make about people around you
• How the best players ask good questions of others.
• What makes a really good PLAYER/COACH relationship?
• The determining factor of GOOD PARENTS
• How kids NEVER forget bullying parents
• Creating a ‘safe place’ for a young player to develop

The instances of depression with former players and what to do to make the most of the final phase of your career

A whole host of great insights taken from Ian’s research

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Dr Ian Peek is a transition & performance coach, helping his clients achieve their goals whether transitioning to a new level of achievement or maintaining their position at the top of their sport or industry. Ian holds a Master’s degree in Sports Coaching and a PhD in the social- psychology of high performing athletes. His PhD research focused on the lived experiences of 16 PGA European Tour professionals during and after their careers. He is a PGA Master Professional - the highest educational level in The PGA - which recognises PGA Members who make a significant effort to improve themselves as golf professionals and maintain the highest degree of excellence for themselves and their operations.

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Today on the Brain Booster we are joined by a rising star on the Tour coaching stage Liam James.

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Already at a relatively young age Liam has coached numerous winners on tour such as Matt Wallace and Vincent Norrman. He also coached tour legend Lee Westwood for over two years.

We had chance to discuss his evolution and development as a coach working with great mentors such as Mac O’Grady, Robert Rock and Matt Belsham.

From an early age he has been fascinated by the art and science of both playing and coaching.

Often in his early days he would be playing tournaments with other young pros who he was actually coaching and we go into a great story how he transformed the fortunes of one young player during a 36 hole tournament they played together.

With his association with Robert Rock he gained an opportunity to coach top players and has never looked back since.

We discuss life on tour and both the opportunity and challenges of working at the highest level.

The conversation though doesn’t just apply to good players.

Whatever your standard of play you will gain something from this podcast.

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We look into:

• Really understanding your game and your tendencies
• Effective preparation
• How to identify and devlop your stock shot
• Looking at the whole player not just the swing
• The importance of presenting a player FACTS
• The development of key SKILLS
• Drills YOU can do to improve your PACE control on the greens
• Dealing with the ups and downs of results as a coach

A really insightful session with a coach who is making a big difference at the highest level but who is also still heavily involved in coaching golf at ALL levels

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Today we are joined on the Brain Booster by the biggest influence in my coaching career Fred Shoemaker.

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I first went out to Fred’s school in Carmel Valley, California over 25 years ago.

The experience had a deep and lasting impression on me and opened up a whole new world of enquiry and thought about the coaching process.

Fred has continued to influence many coaches and players with his ability to look at the game in a way that really gets you to think about what the game truly MEANS to you

What is your PURPOSE for playing the game?

What is really important to you about the experience?

In today’s show amongst many topics we managed to really drill down into the FOUR types of coaching.

The ‘DO’ instruction. The model for 90% of todays golf coaching whereby a teacher ‘tells’ you what to do in your swing based on his or her belief about how the golf swing SHOULD function

The ‘awareness’ instruction which is much more of a coaching based approach where a coach simply asks you to pay attention to what is ACTUALLY happening in your experience of swinging a club. This leads to a much stronger learning experience.

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The BE instruction

This is where the coach helps you explore the PERSON you are when you swing the golf club. Are you going to play as a courageous golfer perhaps? At the heart of this instruction is your own COMMITMENT

The fourth type of instruction is to challenge HOW the world ‘occurs’ to you.

If the golf course occurs to you as a place of threat then no amount of the first two types of instruction will have much effect.

To understand how the world is occurring to you and the CHOICE you have in creating that narrative

 

This session is not for the faint hearted.

It is challenging

It will really make you consider your approach to the game

It is a wonderful conversation with a very special coach

 

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Today on the show we are joined by Performance Coach Tim O’Connor.

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We had a wonderful conversation about his life and evolution as a performance coach.

Tim has a fascinating background as a writer, golfer and now coach.

He wrote a wonderful book about the great Moe Norman called ‘The Feeling of Greatness’

We talked about the time Tim spent with Moe, playing golf and a fascinating insight to Moe’s connection to the target when he played.

Why and how Moe was so misunderstood

Onto Tim’s coaching career

Tim’s observation of the rampant narcissism in the golfing world today and how we can all become lost in the story of ‘I will be happy WHEN’

How we are constantly being fed the story that we are ‘BROKEN’

How we could access our own innate talent

How our Ego can hijack the coaching process

What Tim learned about coaching from Lou Reed

Tim O’Connor is a golf coach, award-winning writer, and podcaster living in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.

Tim came into coaching following a career as a music critic and then a golf writer during which he covered the major tours and wrote four books including The Feeling of Greatness: The Moe Norman Story, the biography of the mysterious Canadian regarded as the best ball-striker who ever lived. Tim is in the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame as a writer.

After being involved for 20 years in men’s work with the ManKind Project, Tim moved into coaching golfers, including the University of Guelph men’s and women’s golf team.

A self-described deep golf nerd, Tim is fascinated by the psychological and spiritual aspects of golf, which he brings together in his writing on the Substack platform, talks, and his Swing Thoughts podcast with Howard Glassman. Tim is completing his latest book, Quiet Mind Golf.

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Today on the podcast we are joined by Dr Laura Carey and Caesar Bayliss from Perception Sport

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Laura has conducted some amazing research around putting over the past number of years in particular around gaze control and also brain activity prior to actually hitting the putt.

What she has uncovered has the potential to transform the way putting is both learned and performed.

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The conversation will REALLY get you thinking about the way you approach your game on the greens.

In our time together we looked at:

• The difference in brain activity just before the stroke is made between successful and unsuccessful putters.
• Why doubt over the ball is so detrimental to performance
• How this increases brain activity which then compromises your stroke
• Why a line on the ball may not be the most effective strategy
• Why practicing with putting aids and gadgets can be of limited value
• The role of the eyes in supplying information for your putt
• The value of ‘quiet eye’
• Busy eyes make for a bust brain
• How to train to then perform
• Why you shouldn’t just keep hitting putt after putt when you are training

 

This is a really refreshing and far reaching conversation that could potentially apply to the whole of your game

A lot of what Laura and Caesar had to say resonated with many of the ideas presented by Gary Nicol and myself in the Lost Art of Putting

Caesar Bayliss has been a PGA professional for over 20 years and specializes in putting. He coaches at The Wisley and other venues across the UK  Dr Laura Carey is a Lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland and a HCPC-registered Practitioner Psychologist. She has worked as an applied sport psychologist for over 15 years, offering support to a range of athletes, coaches and teams. Laura’s PhD was in golf putting, titled "Investigating Perceptual-Cognitive Expertise, Visual Gaze, and Neural Activity in Golf Putting".

The website: https://www.perceptionsport.co.uk/

The Conversation: https://bit.ly/3SeWdA2

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Today on the brain booster we are joined by coaching legend Michael Hebron.

Michael has just written a wonderful book with Stephen Yazulla titled ‘It Depends’

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The book is all about learning and what is required to get the best out of your lessons or your training.

It is an amazing piece of work with some great insights, many of which are counterintuitive.

It also reinforces what we have said on the Brain Booster many times about the need to honour your individuality.

The book is called:

‘It Depends’

As we discussed during our time together:

• The need for ‘unintended outcomes’
• The brain doesn’t learn without reference points
• Swing too fast, swing too slow so you can FIND what is the ideal timing
• Why you need to understand the rules of the CLUB
• The need to understand RHYTHM and TIMING
• The rhythm of ONE
• Understand how the swinging of the club creates motion not the other way around
• Take away the word better. The brain doesn’t learn from better, it learns much more from DIFFERENT
• The need to be OBJECTIVE about outcomes as opposed to emotional evaluation
• The need to be able to ADJUST to what is going on
• The difference between TEACHING environments and LEARNING environments
• The swing model is the GOLF COURSE

 

A truly wonderful conversation with one of the most influential coaches of the past 100 years.

A man who has dedicated his life to helping students and coaches alike how to LEARN better

 

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https://www.michaelhebron.com/#home

 

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Today on the show we are joined by Jon Sherman the author of the brilliant best selling book ‘The Four Foundations of Golf’, host of the ‘Sweet Spot’ podcast and the host of ‘Practical Golf’ website.

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Jon is a top amateur player in his own right and recently achieved a lifetime golfing ambition by qualifying for the US Mid Am

We opened up our conversation with some fascinating insights about his experience in qualifying and all of the challenges he encountered by stepping out of his comfort zone and competing at a much higher level.

How Jon has learned to have a different relationship with the game and his ability to deal better with the inevitable chaos golf often throws at us

It is this relationship to unpredictable outcomes which for me is the heart of an effective mental game strategy

We had a really wide ranging conversation covering multiple topics such as:

• Self learning and what it actually looks and feels like
• How to develop more clubface awareness
• Why giving yourself permission to fail in practice is so important
• Expectation management and why it has such a big impact on your mental game
• Matching skill level with practical expectation
• The ability to reframe outcomes to stay more level mentally
• The TWO THIRDS rule and how it can change your perception of the game
• How to genuinely enjoy the game more

A really great conversation with a deep thinker about the game and someone who is having a BIG impact on how people golfers approach getting better at the game.

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https://practical-golf.com/ 

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Today on the show we welcome back our good friend Kelvin Kelley

Kelvin is a certified Mind factor coach and Master Mind Factor coach

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He is a great coach who has a strong desire to SIMPLIFY the game to allow his students to PERFORM better

He has a wonderful thirst for knowledge and a desire to improve as a coach

He has been heavily influenced by great Australian coach Gary Edwin

We had a GREAT conversation

We talk about the importance of understanding your tendencies and how to MATCH up your swing

Starting with a clear INTENTION of the shot you want to play

• The vital importance of correct CONCEPTS
• Getting the set up right – The critical importance of SET UP
• Being READY to move and the more you get right the less conscious involvement in the swing
• Mirror your impact position
• Simplifying your swing to free your mind
• Kelvin also talks about his belief in JOURNALLING and how it has been a GAME CHANGER for his golf and his life
• How can a student benefit from understanding ATTENTION
• The difference between ‘having thoughts’ and ‘deliberate thinking’
• The multiple levels of ACCEPTANCE
• The importance of developing your own PHILOSOPHY
• Playing a ‘game within the game’ and how this can set you free

Kelvin is a really outstanding coach who has been prepared to study both technical and mental aspects to become the very best version of himself

A great conversation to really challenge your perspective on the game

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How ‘Socratic’ questioning could help transform your game

Today we have on the show internationally renowned coach Nick Bradley who has written a fantastic new book called ‘The 50 secrets to GREAT GOLF you don’t know about YET!’

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One of the secrets really stood out to me

Socratic questioning and how being prepared to ‘go into’ the problem you have with your game could actually help find a solution

What would you ‘need’ to do to slice the ball?

Can you actually experience what you would need to do to deliberately create the ‘mistake’?

This area of enquiry was just one of the fascinating topics that we managed to cover in a really wide ranging conversation:

• Why trying to get rid of the ‘ego’ is the ultimate ego trip
• Playing to your strengths as a coach
• The uses and misuses of technology
• Becoming more of a SHOT coach
• Giving our shots a ‘name’
• The problem with ‘Method Coaching’ and why this is perhaps the least effective coaching model
• The dangers of relying on our memory

 

Nick has had a very long and distinguished coaching career, studying with some of the world’s best coaches like David Leadbetter and then going on to coach top players such as Justin Rose

He is a deep thinker about the game and is refreshingly honest and forthright in his opinions of what we need to do to get the best from our game

To find out more about Nick go to

https://www.bradleygolf.com/

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Today on the podcast we are joined by author and executive coach Becky Hall who has written a wonderful book called ‘The Art of Enough’

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During a very wide ranging conversation we to a deep dive into the concept of ENOUGH

What is enough?

In a world where we it is constantly being reinforced that we are not enough and we need more of just about everything it was so refreshing to chat with Becky and to look through a different lens.

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• We are often overloaded with demands on time
• How can we get better at focusing our attention on the RIGHT things?
• The current epidemic of burnout
• Self doubt and how even the very best can experience this on a regular basis
• What is REALLY driving the feeling of not being ‘good enough’?
• Coming from a position of SCARCITY and LACK
• Needing external validation for what we do
• Quietening the inner critic and allowing yourself to seek excellence
• Following a path that really matters to you
• Mastering and exploring your craft
• Why ‘Enough’ isn’t just sitting back and doing nothing
• The need to REST and RESTORE

 

How to avoid the trap of ‘working harder’ in terms of your training as opposed to training efficiently

Within the theme we have of looking at the game differently Becky provides a refreshingly alternative perspective.

Nothing in the conversation suggests we shouldn’t aim to maximise our skills but it does mean coming at it from a position of ‘enough’ as opposed to a position of lack.

Becky Hall is an experienced EMCC executive coach, leadership consultant and facilitator. She has worked one to one with senior leaders and executive teams across all sectors for over twenty years.

Her new book is called ‘The Art of Enough’

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https://presence.uk.net/

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Today I am joined on the show by my good friend and colleague Andrew Knott.

Andrew is the head professional at the All Thailand Golf Centre in Bangkok which in amazing location dedicated to providing one of the best environments for learning and development in South East Asia.

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I met up with Andrew recently when I was asked to speak at the PGA International Conference in Thailand.

We have known each other for many years and as well as golf we share a passion for the game of cricket.

Andrew was heavily influenced in his development by the legendary England wicket keeper Alan Knott.

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He has always had an intense passion for learning and development and has built a very impressive reputation in Asia for being one of the most forward thinking professionals.

We had a wonderful conversation about the game but not least about the effect of our environment on our game.

Often an area that gets overlooked as we seek out more and more information about technique

• Who are you spending most of your golf time with?
• What effect are they having on you?
• Is the role of the coach being overstated?
• What do you actually DO with the information you receive?
• What does a great training environment look like?
• 150 Tour winners used or trained at Andrews facility
• What tough environments can do to enhance CREATIVITY
• What are you trying to achieve and how can your environment do to support that?
• How can you utilise your own golf course to set some new challenges?
• The long term benefits of DELIBERATE MISS
• Make your games relative to what you want to achieve
• Make sure you PERSONALISE your drills
• Does your practice session fully ENGAGE you?
• The balance between working on your strengths and weaknesses

A great conversation with a very deep thinker on the game.

Enjoy

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andrew@allthailandgolfcenter.com

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Today on the show we welcome back a great guest in Jayne Storey who has just published a new book called ‘The athlete’s ascent’.

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We had again a wonderful conversation about her work on what it can mean for you and your game.

Jayne has a wealth of knowledge and experience of martial arts spanning many years. Her work is taken from her own DIRECT experience. Experience gained from DAILY application.

She has created so many wonderful programs and written numerous books.

One of her previous books Breath Golf is an absolute must read.

It is so practical and applicable to the game of golf

Jayne’s new book explores key principles to get the absolute most from the mind body connection in ALL sports.

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In particular we discussed the need for a DAILY PRACTICE

• How a meditation practice done on a daily basis can make such a difference to the quality of your mind
• How to play the game from a quiet mind
• Why in a world of quick tips and fixes a daily practice is more important than ever
• How the intellect has been given too much prominence in skill development
• What to learn and understand from the great masters of martial arts
• Why the best players in the game are able to let movement emerge

As always a fascinating conversation with a really experienced coach who has worked with players at all levels of the game.

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https://www.chi-performance.com/

 

 

 

Today we have the opportunity to spend some more time with coach Kent Osborne.

He is the author of the book ‘Scratch Attitude’

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Here is a great quote from his website

"You see … before I  became a golfer I was a pioneer in the executive coaching field, My experience working with professional athletes and corporate leaders revealed this truth: Feelings precede thoughts. Or, to put it differently, you can’t think positive when you feel negative." 

Kent is a good golfer in his own right and he charts his own personal experiences of the game with a big following of players.

The first time we spoke it was clear that Kent and I shared many similar trains of thought.

In particular the importance of JOURNALING

We had a truly memorable conversation discussing the numerous benefits of being a regular journal taker.

It is something we have spoken about on this show and promoted heavily in the Mind Caddie app

We discussed

• The difference between THINKING about gratitude and actually FEELING it
• The ability to be playful when you are hitting your shots
• Why journaling can help us to balance out the overload of information that is coming at us in the modern world
• Why evolution got us to focus on the negative and our mistakes
• How our thinking patterns become so habitual and how journaling can help shift this
• Why BALANCE is so important from an evolutionary perspective
• Why journaling can help us to still get something out of a bad outcome day on the course
• The ability to develop spontaneous acceptance and to be able to be NEUTRAL to the variety of outcomes.
• The importance of acknowledging the GOOD shots and the good experiences
• If this was your LAST round of golf how would you want to experience it?

So much of what Kent says is based in real world experience and makes for that most elusive of qualities common sense. When you listen to him you realise just how precious this NEXT opportunity is to play the game.

Take the plunge and embark on a year of journaling and just see what it can do for your game.

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https://scratchattitude.com/

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On today’s show we have a wonderful conversation with Mark Shervill a tremendous coach from the hidden gem that is Lilleshall Golf Club in Shropshire

I have known Mark for very many years

We first met when he was a PGA Trainee at The Belfry over twenty years ago.

Since then he has spent time evolving himself into a really effective coach

He spent many days with Nick Middleton from Zen Golf on the DP World Tour

His approach is really holistic and embraces all aspects of the Body-Mind system

He and his wife Lisa Shervill, a former Ladies European Tour professional run some fantastic programs at Lilleshall especially focused around junior development

His enthusiasm is infectious

Perhaps the work that gives Mark most pleasure though is his work with ex forces personel in the ‘Battle Back’ program

Helping ex military men and women get back on track with their lives through the medium of golf.

This is genuine contribution to the game and really makes you think about the sheer privilege we have just to be able to go out and play golf in a beautiful environment

We discuss the importance of creating SHOTS and the sheer joy which can be gained in turning an image in your head to the reality of a beautifully struck shot

Over 50 of Mark‘s pupils have now completed the Mobilise Your Swing Programme that Mark, Lisa and Aaron have created together combining physical, technical and mental aspects of golf with great results in all of these individuals from Junior to Senior Golfers.

This great success has led them to  form the Shervill Golf Performance website where you can access the Mobilise Your Swing programme for yourself to help your body make the best golf swings possible!

They also have a Speed & Power gym based programme that is proving to be a huge success, as well as The Junior Foundations programme which is ideal for giving young golfers the athletic foundations that they will need now and in the future.

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Today on the Mind Caddie we are joined by a great guest in the shape of Trevor Jones.

Trevor is a top Mental Performance coach who has done extensive research on the YIPS and more importantly has been finding ways to really make a difference to people who suffer from this debilitating issue.

With a couple of esteemed colleagues he has put together a potentially revolutionary program

We had a great discussion about Trevor’s own background, his own playing and what led him to have such an interest into the specific area of yips in golf and indeed in other sports

How an individual lesson that didn’t work out well got Trevor thinking about a different approach to the yips

• What is causing more people to get the yips
• What is the mind actually trying to achieve with the yips?
• Is it technique or is it mental?
• The importance of the correct CONCEPTS
• Having a FLEXIBLE framework
• How more and more information can only cause more damage
• How RESISTING your experience is often the root of the issues
• The power of ACCEPTANCE and CURIOSITY
• Establishing ‘psychological safety’
• Playing from a ‘safe place’
• Stop trying to FEEL better and get better at FEELING
• What the ‘fear’ is really trying to do for us
• Being willing to ‘observe’ the yips
• The myth of the ‘perfect state’
• How the individual is SACRED. Once size doesn’t fit all one size fits NONE

You will gain so much from this very enlightening conversation

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Paul Salter - known as The Golf Hypnotherapist - is a High-Performance Mindset Coach who leverages hypnosis and powerful subconscious reprogramming techniques to help golfers of all ages and skill levels overcome the mental hazards of their minds so they can shoot lower scores and play to their potential.

He has over 15 years of coaching experience working with high performers in various industries, helping them get unstuck, out of their own way, and unlock their full potential.

Paul’s clientele includes Collegiate, Amateur, and Professional Golfers, Professional Poker Players, Professional Traders, Business Owners and CEOs, high-level Executives, and serial Entrepreneurs.

We had a great discussion:

• His background in competitive POKER
• The big breakthrough in his performance EMOTIONAL RESILLIENCY
• Do we become a REACTOR or a RESPONDER?
• Why HYPNOSIS can be meditation on STEROIDS
• The deep connection with the unconscious mind
• Looking at why FEAR can destroy our golf game
• The THREE CORE FEARS abandonment, judgement and rejection
• Why these responses are hard wired into our DNA
• Body awareness – instead of resisting it be CURIOUS
• Releasing ourselves from these ties of fear

A great conversation to explore some deeper patterns in our life

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Today we welcome back onto the Mind Caddie Dr Izzy Justice to discuss his new book ‘Your Brain Swings Every Club’

We had a really fascinating conversation about the role the brain plays in EVERY shot

The coach of the future will really have a clear understanding of the role the BRAIN plays in accessing skills

We discussed:

• The dangers in being so distracted
• The crucial period BEFORE you address the ball from a brain perspective
• Understanding how to have a ‘basket of targets’
• What thoughts ramp up brain activity
• Why practice is all about RECALL
• The crucial hour before bed
• What you can do to enhance RECALL
• The role of mental rehearsal
• Why we need to ‘speak’ to our brain
• The next frontier in coaching
• A great conversation with some nuggets to help your game

 

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www.gyragolf.com

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Today on the Mind Caddie we are joined by top Performance coach Jon Wallett

I have known Jon for many years and have always been really impressed by his approach to getting the very best from his players

He has had outstanding results with players at every level but especially in helping young players realise some of their golfing ambitions

He has some incredible resources on his website

www.elitecoaching.com

We had a wonderful conversation about Jon’s research into what truly makes the difference in developing TOUR PLAYERS

The research program he created by interviewing many European Tour players and winners

His findings are incredible:

We got the chance to discuss:

• What most training is potentially making players worse
• The need to find YOUR golfing DNA
• Setting out on a path of SELF MASTERY
• Why you need to reflect on your successes and become more in tune with what makes YOU tick
• The THREE types of effective training
• Why we could utilise the GOLF COURSE so much more in our training
• Challenges for the course
• Getting your brain comfortable with the golf course
• Looking at your RELATIONSHIP to the game
• Why ‘good enough’ can be so effective
• Staying on YOUR path to mastery
• The joy and benefits of GRATITUDE and APPRECIATION

 

A really great session with a top coach who is making a big difference in the world of golf

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Today on the Mind Caddie we are joined again by my great friend from the USA Randy Joyner
Randy is a TOP coach who keeps producing outstanding results with players at all levels but especially young college and aspiring tour players 
He is a Certified Mind Factor coach and has been kind enough to say that the work we have done over the years has had a big influence on his game and his coaching 

He has won 2 Pro Ams recently with sub 65 scores without ANY practice whatsoever 
We go into detail about that 

We also dive very deep into the skill of acceptance and why it is a capacity that is so important to keep working on and developing.

We also spent time talking about his work on the PGA tour as a broadcast analyst and how he has been following some of the best players in the world in the final rounds on a Sunday.

Some fantastic insights about the final round that Rory played in the Masters this year and what we can all learn from that experience. Also, we look closely at Randy‘s observation of Scottie Scheffler and how he manages to keep the game simple by being very aware of what is clubface is doing during the swing, and having the capacity to adjust when required,

This is a podcast with somebody who has an incredible depth and breadth of knowledge about the game, both as a player, coach and broadcaster 

Enjoy your time with Randy Joyner.

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On today’s show, we have a solo run touching on a subject, very dear to my heart, the concept of ‘I will be happy when’   How we all fall into the trap of putting off our enjoyment of life for for some perceived moment off in the future, when the stars will align everything will come together, and I will be happy ever after as a result of achieving X Y or Z.   You can fill in the blanks that may be winning a major tournament. It may be winning the club championship or breaking 100 for the first time never mind creates the stories of perceived happiness off in the future, and it can be so destructive to her actual enjoyment of the game right now. Not only destructive. It actually creates a lot of tension in the system in extreme cases real fear and anxiety. Even the great Rory McIlroy seems to have fallen into the trap of this after winning the US Masters, and seemingly afterwards falling into some kind of malaise and unhappiness.   He is human like the rest of us within this, but I feel there is a way out of this by really understanding the value of seen through the illusion and then falling in love with the idea of being on the path to mastery. Karl shares some key insights. How are you can embrace this philosophy to liberate your own game, and get so much closer to your true potential   Enjoy this solo offering and don’t forget to give us a review wherever you get your Podcasts, why not subscribe or follow it's FREE  

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