GOLF TIP by John Waine
Master Practitioner NLP
www.SpaceGolfer.com

The Goal Setting Secret

You can discover many formulas for goal setting on the net. It's everywhere! Acronyms like SMART abound. But they often miss out the most important aspect - motivation. After all, most goals that golfers set are not achieved. Why? Because they don't really want it enough. Their "heart" isn't in it. Here's a great method for finding out if your really want that goal. 

Begin by imagining a time in the future when you have already achieved your goal. Really be there, inside the socks and shoes of that person i.e. you, who has already done it! Look around and really enjoy it. See what you would see. Hear what you would hear - perhaps friends talking about how amazing your game is now. Feel what you feel - that wonderful feeling of having achieved your goal. Even taste and smell what it's like.

Then, go 3 months into the future. So by this time, your goal has been around for 3 months and it's beginning to be just something you do. Enjoy that too in every sense. Then go, 6 months, a year, even 5, 10 years down the line and really enjoy, not only having your goal, but the wonderful consequences of it.

Here's lies true motivation. If you don't feel fantastic after this short sensory journey into your future, then give this goal a miss, and choose another one. Remember, never leave the site of a goal, without full experiencing, in all your senses, having achieved it, and it's glorious consequences in the months and year that follow.