Getting the Most Out of Your Round… and Life

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• on December 30, 2011
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My son Nathan knows how to live life to the fullest!

How many times have you hit a shot while worrying about your scores or results? I know that I constantly have to keep my worry in check on the golf course. The emotions and thoughts while hitting a putt  for triple bogey, or a tee shot with water right and O.B. left, should not be about avoiding trouble. Instead, after a preliminary check of the trouble (your surroundings) your mind should be filled with emotions and thoughts about how the shot feels, looks, and sounds.

In Matthew 6:25-27 Jesus says: “Do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink: or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”

The truth of this verse gives me the ability to focus on what really matters both on and off the golf course.  Of course, I am not perfect, and I have to constantly check what I am focusing on during a round of golf. If I worry about results during a round, I leave the course feeling down with no energy. However,  if I use my emotions to visualize, feel and hear while hitting each shot, I finish my round feeling refreshed. In the same way, when I go through my day focusing on God and the people I come in contact with; I am more fulfilled and I have the energy to accomplish much more than when I worry about my own future and needs.

Do you have any input on how to keep from worrying and how to live life to the fullest?

GB