I was set for golf this morning. Another opportunity to practice my internal game. I had a template for doing this from last week. And all that meant was to work on letting go of the program that I whiff on balls a lot. And putting in the program that I hit balls well. This week I focused on the fairway simply because that is the place I usually whiff. And I reminded myself not to install new malware BEFORE and DURING the hole I'm playing. I simply need to practice re-setting every single shot and let the shot come to me. I even identified an NLP procedure to do what I'm trying to do. It's called the Magic Frame. Today it was me, Chris and Scott and remembering last week's fiasco with the uncancelled reservation we were happy simply to get out to the tee on time. Today we were joined by this one Indonesian guy who we had played with before and I remembered him because he annoyed me then. He talked too much. Great. A test right away playing with someone who annoys me. Sigh. As it turned out, my visualization and clearing exercises worked... on the very first hole. I shot a par right out of the gate and then I had to sabotage it all by saying OK I can go home now since I already shot my par and tied for a hole win. That statement alone is part of the program I need to get rid of, that I'm satisfied playing like crap the rest of the way. Which was to say I shot a 7 on hole 2, and then 6s for the next 5 holes! I did have at least one great shot on each hole though. Great tee shot and follow-up on Hole 4 leaving me right in front of the green. Took 4 shots from there, not even 50 yards in. Nice fairway iron to get on the green in 3 on Hole 5, only to 3-putt my way to another 6. Finally on hole 7 I shot a bogey 4. And on Hole 8, I shot a 5... which was actually a 6 because I hit 2nd shot OB. But my drive was nice on that hole and another fairway beauty went 130 yards and straight. On the last hole, I got on off the tee shot. And ended my day with a par. I tied to win the last 2 holes. I won 3 as usual. Gotta work on that program boy, gotta work on that program.
We thought it was going to be really hot today. Turned out it was, but not so bad. At least in the shade you could feel the breeze. But hey I was just thinking that we hadn't had a hot spell all summer long. Guess that changed starting yesterday. And so while we slogged through the golf game, it actually didn't get hot until after. Then again I had no plans to do anything outside anymore, not after golf anyway. I was thinking that I had better stay home and work on all that IS policy and contract stuff I had procrastinated on all week last week. That was my intention anyway, but it was not a strong intention. I found all kinds of distractions anyway. Made myself some nice fish for lunch since Lisa didn't want to take that barramundi from Whole Foods. Did some trimming on that crisp new haircut I gave myself yesterday. And just lay on the couch really with my nice A/C on. And actually a nice, shiny, new toy came in. That would be the Acer Swift laptop I had ordered for myself to replace that crap HP Stream I thought I was going to get to use. Hey this was an octo-core laptop and it had plenty of juice. The desk mount for this and a monitor also came. But I was too lazy to assemble it today. I had only enough distraction tolerance for the laptop. And so with that i just let the rest of my Sunday ease on by thinking to myself that next is sure to be busy what with the TEch Council Meeting and Johnnie's first day of school falling sometime in the middle of the week. Might as well kick back today...
I was set for golf this morning. Another opportunity to practice my internal game. I had a template for doing this from last week. And all that meant was to work on letting go of the program that I whiff on balls a lot. And putting in the program that I hit balls well. This week I focused on the fairway simply because that is the place I usually whiff. And I reminded myself not to install new malware BEFORE and DURING the hole I'm playing. I simply need to practice re-setting every single shot and let the shot come to me. I even identified an NLP procedure to do what I'm trying to do. It's called the Magic Frame. Today it was me, Chris and Scott and remembering last week's fiasco with the uncancelled reservation we were happy simply to get out to the tee on time. Today we were joined by this one Indonesian guy who we had played with before and I remembered him because he annoyed me then. He talked too much. Great. A test right away playing with someone who annoys me. Sigh. As it turned out, my visualization and clearing exercises worked... on the very first hole. I shot a par right out of the gate and then I had to sabotage it all by saying OK I can go home now since I already shot my par and tied for a hole win. That statement alone is part of the program I need to get rid of, that I'm satisfied playing like crap the rest of the way. Which was to say I shot a 7 on hole 2, and then 6s for the next 5 holes! I did have at least one great shot on each hole though. Great tee shot and follow-up on Hole 4 leaving me right in front of the green. Took 4 shots from there, not even 50 yards in. Nice fairway iron to get on the green in 3 on Hole 5, only to 3-putt my way to another 6. Finally on hole 7 I shot a bogey 4. And on Hole 8, I shot a 5... which was actually a 6 because I hit 2nd shot OB. But my drive was nice on that hole and another fairway beauty went 130 yards and straight. On the last hole, I got on off the tee shot. And ended my day with a par. I tied to win the last 2 holes. I won 3 as usual. Gotta work on that program boy, gotta work on that program.
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