GOAL
MAPPING
The Secret to Reaching Your
New Year’s Resolutions & Dreams
January has arrived once again, and we all
know what that means: It’s time for New
Year’s resolutions! Your mind will begin to waiver while you are
standing over the ball and doubt will creep
in.
This is the perfect time to make positive and
long-lasting changes in your golf game and
life. Unfortunately, most who decide to set
New Year’s resolutions do it for the short
term, but not the long term. Unfortunately,
they fall short of the golf game and the life
they deserve. It’s very important to be fully committed,
because during this year, you will be tested.
It’s never easy to reach your dreams, so you
need to know your end game. You need to
know the part of the green you are shooting
for and the exact path you want to take to
get there.
At Gary Gilchrist Golf Academy, we combine
the practice of goal setting from sport
psychology with mental coaching to form a
powerful hybrid known as goal mapping. A
few tips from our goal-mapping program will
help you make the difference in your pursuit
of personal excellence this year. Secondly, your dream must be compelling.
Being specific and detailed isn’t enough.
Your goals have to excite you and drive you
to pursue that goal every day. In turn, they
must be your goals. You can’t be doing it for
anyone, but yourself.
First and foremost, begin with your dream.
Decide exactly where you want your golf
game to be at the end of this year. What do
you want? What would 2019 a successful
year? This is a critical step to making this
year turn out the way you want.
You must be specific and detailed. Just like
during a round of golf, if you are unclear how
you want to hit a shot or where you want the
ball to end up, you won’t be fully committed.
The final aspect of goal mapping is taking
small incremental steps towards reaching
your long-term destination. Even a
compelling and specific goal can seem out of
reach when it’s 365 days away. So you need
to plan accordingly and break the goal down
further into shorter-term processes that
are daily, weekly, and monthly. When you
have a clear end game and smart steps to
get there over the year, you will have a map
to reaching your dreams.
Call 866-639-9099 to learn more about GGGA’s Mental Coaching Program