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    Spirit of Golf: Skills and Drills: Peak Performance Techniques for the Athletic Mind
    Spirit of Golf: Skills and Drills: Peak Performance Techniques for the Athletic Mind
    Spirit of Golf: Skills and Drills: Peak Performance Techniques for the Athletic Mind
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    Spirit of Golf: Skills and Drills: Peak Performance Techniques for the Athletic Mind

    By Tim N. Kremer, M.A.

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    Most top teaching professionals agree that rarely is it from a lack of physical talent and hard work that most golfers hold themselves back. Instead, it is a mindset of impatience, frustration, anxiety, and doubt that get in the way; emotional qualities which add tension and resistance to the body and sabotage states of peak performance time and again. With the introduction of Skills and Drills, international peak performance coach and Spirit of Golf president and founder Tim N. Kremer, M.A., takes mental and emotional training to powerful new levels, offering to golfers and athletes in every sport innovative skills related to improvement through the power of the mind.
    A practical “how to” book that is heralded as “the first of its kind,” Skills and Drills is filled with dozens of leading—edge skills and techniques for athletes who are serious about taking their performance to incredible new heights.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTim N. Kremer, M.A.
    Release dateJul 29, 2013
    ISBN9781301619986
    Spirit of Golf: Skills and Drills: Peak Performance Techniques for the Athletic Mind
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    Tim N. Kremer, M.A.

    Tim N. Kremer, M.A., is a visionary peak performance coach and consultant based in Jupiter, FL. He is president and founder of Spirit of Golf, LLC, a program utilizing innovative and pioneering mind/body techniques which help participants (both athletes and non-athletes) learn to achieve greater success and joy in both golf and life. Tim is an author, lecturer and national keynote speaker who has presented before athletic, educational, corporate and not-for-profit organizations, inspiring non-athletes with the same messages he shares with golfers through Spirit of Golf. In addition to his speaking and writing schedule, Tim works with a number of tour athletes and others through his private coaching practice. He has touched the lives of thousands of people utilizing his background in golf (as competitor, coach and instructor), Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), Transformational Communication, hypnosis, meditation (a 20-year practice), breathwork, writing and the martial arts. Tim also is a licensed instructor for PAIRS International, a program which utilizes couples communication skills. Tim is a former mini-tour golf professional and has competed successfully as an amateur both at the national and state levels. He continues to maintain a scratch handicap and plays for fun in tournaments as his schedule allows. Prior to his golf career, Tim worked in corporate communications and as a communication consultant with clients across the country. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in journalism/communications from the University of Iowa. Tim’s deep passion for sharing the concepts of Spirit of Golf combines his playing and teaching career in golf with his practice as a performance coach focusing on interpersonal communication skills surrounding present moment awareness. He remains at the leading edge of transformational life coaching by attending workshops and learning from others, including Jerry and Esther Hicks, Abraham, Eckhart Tolle, Joan Borysenko, Jon Kabat-Zinn, David Morehouse, Deepak Chopra, Brian Weiss, Carolyn Myss, Rosemary Wolff, Jon Connelly, Sri Vasudeva, Nayano and many others. His life experiences have helped Tim create a fun, unique and entertaining coaching/teaching style appreciated by the athletes and other lives he has touched. He has produced numerous DVDs and audio CDs that highlight the concepts taught through Spirit of Golf workshops and clinics. Audio music CDs also have been produced which incorporate sound and music into leading-edge brain entrainment technology. All materials, including Tim's first book, "Thoughts of the Day: The Book - A Collection of Insights for the Soul" are available through his website at: www.myspiritofgolf.com.

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      Spirit of Golf - Tim N. Kremer, M.A.

      Spirit of Golf

      Skills and Drills

      Peak Performance Techniques for the Athletic Mind

      Tim N. Kremer, M.A.

      President and Founder, Spirit of Golf

      Writing, editing, and production design by Tim N. Kremer, M.A.

      Special contributions from George Stoffel, PGA

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission from the author.

      Copyright 2013 Tim N. Kremer and Spirit of Golf, LLC

      Published by Tim N. Kremer, M.A., at Smashwords

      Discover other titles by Spirit of Golf at Smashwords.com

      License Notes

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return toSmashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This is a golf book, of course.

      But it is also a book about life. (Or maybe it is the other way around.)

      It is dedicated to those who have the courage to live their dreams and to dream their lives.

      Though the inner journey is not always appreciated by others or even well understood, there is an indescribable beauty and joy to be felt by those who remain true to their paths.

      It is with this in mind that I share these thoughts with you.

      And it is through you and because of you that I continue to enjoy this very special ride.

      What Top Teachers are Saying About Skills and Drills

      "In Skills and Drills, Tim offers a way for the average golfer to: (1) Become aware of how emotions factor into the game; (2) realize where they may be sabotaging themselves and missing opportunities to improve; and (3) develop a simple game plan that will lead to improvement. Did I say ‘average golfer?’ He or she won’t be for long – get the book, do the stuff!" - Joe Hallett, PGA, GOLF Magazine Top 100 Instructor

      "Tim Kremer’s Skills and Drills is OUTSTANDING! I love that Tim defines and promotes the important component of peak performance known as Emotional Mastery in a way that has become a significant part of my instruction program. This book contains numerous strategies that will help all golfers go from good to great as they discover the emotional state of BEINGNESS! Thank you for a terrific resource for all golfers and for those of us who teach people to play this wonderful game we all love!" - Deb Vangellow, LPGA Master Professional, LPGA National Teacher of the Year

      "Skills and Drills provides simple, yet incredibly powerful tools for any golfer to improve his or her game. The book is a culmination of the concepts and practices Tim has shared through Spirit of Golf for several years. Any golfer who is committed to playing his or her best needs a solid mental and emotional approach to the game. This is a book that will give the serious player several approaches to do just that!" - Nick Paez, PGA, 2013 Golf Digest Top 40 Under 40, GolfTEC Teacher of the Year

      The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom, but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.

      - Kahlil Gibran

      Introduction

      It has often been said that golf is a mental game, but I don’t "think that is accurate or true. I feel," instead, that golf is an emotional game; one in which performance is ultimately powered - or disempowered – because of inner qualities surrounding emotion, attitude, temperament, and mood.

      Indeed, our ability to concentrate, focus, analyze, and make sound mental decisions – what I think of more as thought-driven processes – is decidedly hampered whenever we are in the midst of an unhappy or even volatile emotional mood (remember, for example, the last time you were having a heated argument with yourself or someone else and the kinds of thoughts you were thinking).

      It is not until we regain our emotional composure that we are able to start thinking clearly again, at which time we align with a more precise internal energy that allows us to tap into empowering states of clarity and calm.

      It is my firm belief that emotional mastery – the hallmark of what is shared through Spirit of Golf – will become the next frontier for improvement in golf.

      Swing instruction has never been better, equipment more technologically advanced, bodies more fit.

      And yet, there seems to be something seriously missing from our games, asking us to look more deeply inside us if we are committed to improving performance; not just in golf but in every aspect of our lives.

      As just about every golf teaching pro will attest, rarely is it from a lack of physical ability, effort, and hard work that we hold ourselves back (most of us know all too well how to grind and beat balls on the range with seemingly little progress in relation to effort and try).

      Instead, it is emotions such as impatience, frustration, anxiety, and anger that limit our physical performance and hold us back; energies which fester inside the body and do nothing other than create tension and resistance as we practice and play.

      Without exception, emotion dials up the volume in the visualization process. With visualization, we picture the ball going toward the hole. When emotions are added to what we visualize, we sense (imagine) how wonderful and exciting it will be to "feel" the ball dropping into the cup.

      Channeled and purposeful emotion transforms ordinary into exceptional, replacing a purely intellectual and thought-driven process with one where we feel – we learn to believe – that our crowning achievements have already arrived.

      A quick exercise …

      As an awareness exercise, ask yourself the following question surrounding your golf game. As I practice and play, is it enjoyable and fun or is there a fair amount of unhappy emotion and internal tension and resistance?

      Circle the number which best identifies your mood and attitude as you practice and play. 1 = It’s never good enough; 10 = My body feels passionate and alive.

      Your answer will tell you a lot about the mental and emotional (mind) journey that lies ahead.

      1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

      Remember when you first learned …

      Think back to when you first learned to play golf. It took time. Probably way too much time (that’s another story), but it still took time.

      As you learned the swing and you were feeling your body move from points A – Z (and probably everywhere in between), an instruction-filled pathway was developing inside the brain. This pathway eventually synced up body and mind, and a "learning sequence" that included physical, mental, and emotional cues was developed and formed.

      In time, as the swing was remembered and reinforced inside the cells, muscles, and joints of the body, the brain was developing habits of its own. Most importantly, all of our habits – mental, emotional, and physical – continued to combine into a highly refined and predictable blueprint that was built around emotions of frustration or fun.

      If we assimilated new information and developed movement patterns in the body with relaxed and optimistic emotions, these habits got programmed into a total body/mind learning package that became known as "The Fun and Empowered Way I Play Golf."

      But if we learned new skills and reinforced the learning process on overdrive with emotions of anxiety, frustration, and impatience, which was more often the case, we etched these patterns into the learning curve in a very different – and highly ineffective – way.

      The issue is not that we don’t know how to swing a golf club. In many ways, that remains the easiest part of the game. The issue is that we don’t know how to swing a club with an optimized (uncluttered) mind that includes an empowering attitude and mood. We disrupt progress, not from a lack of talent, desire, ability, or skill, but because we keep trying to assimilate new levels of performance with outdated and unproductive thoughts, emotions, and beliefs.

      How to use this book …

      The purpose of this book, however, is not to offer more science or philosophy; our "Thoughts of the Day" books and email series, read by thousands throughout the world each day, do just that.

      Instead, this book offers a variety of innovative and leading-edge mind skills for you to assimilate into your games as you practice and play. In effect, you will begin to retool your game from the inside-out; a very different approach than when we try to train our emotions and games from the outside-in.

      As you move through this book, take your time. There is no need to rush through any of the exercises and practices we share. As you’ll notice, some of the skills will resonate with you and others will not. In the end, you should be able to find an exercise or two that works well for you. Also, you will notice that parts of some chapters seem to repeat information. I’ve purposely written the book to make each chapter somewhat complete in and of itself.

      I recommend you begin to take a different skill to the golf course each time you practice or play. Close your eyes, thumb through the pages, and simply allow your inner guidance to lead you to an exercise that you can practice on that day (you’ll be amazed at how often a skill is seeking you!)

      Finally, and most importantly, enjoy! Golf, as with life, is a journey. It is meant to be lived with passion and joy, something we should keep in mind every time we practice and play.

      Tim N. Kremer, M.A., president and founder, Spirit of Golf

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Chapter 1 - Why Do I (Really) Play Golf?

      Chapter 2 - The Illusion of Control

      Chapter 3 - Believing is Seeing: Learning to Tap into ‘The Flow’

      Chapter 4 - The Pre-Shot Routine

      Chapter 5 - The Post-Shot Routine

      Chapter 6 - The Emotional Scale

      Chapter 7 - Language, Self-Talk, and the Incredible Power of Words

      Chapter 8 - The Breath

      Chapter 9 - Meditation

      Chapter 10 - Tapping into The Zone

      Chapter 11 - The Emotional Goal Setting Process

      Chapter 12 - The Manifestation Process – Detach, Shift, or Embrace

      Chapter 13 - Action vs. Imagination

      Chapter 14 - See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Feel No Evil

      Chapter 15 - Keeping Emotional Score

      Chapter 16 - Act (Feel) As If

      Chapter 17 - As

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