When
it comes to skill development, belief is a huge factor with which to deal. The question one has to come to grips with is
this: Do I BELIEVE that I can change my
bad habit and turn it into a productive action?
“For
a habit to stay changed, people must believe change is possible.”
~Charles Duhigg - The Power of Habit
Once
habits form, our minds go on auto pilot
Now
keep in mind that the whole purpose of this post is to help us develop good
skills and habits whether we play golf, play music or think productively
Some
really great news … you can reprogram your brain. It will just take a great deal of
determination.
How
many times have you heard these words: “Don’t practice a bad swing”? If you have an unfortunate bad swing, you
only continually reinforce this bad habit every time you use a golf club or
ball bat until you get in touch with the bad swing and begin to fix it.
As
a musician, do you continually stumble over the same technical phrase of
music? The principle applies here as
well. Fix the problem, learn proper
technique, improve your skill one note at a time and then increase speed.
That
is the secret – break your skill down into increments of correct posture and
movement. I remember reading of a
professional golfer who was fixing the exact problem we are focusing on here –
he had a lousy swing, and he continued to practice that swing every time he picked
up a club.
His
method, and the one I suggest here is this – go at a snail’s pace, literally,
and do it dozens, yeah hundreds of time, but do it perfectly.
DO IT PERFECTLY EVERY TIME!
I
remember reading that my golfer friend did just as I’m suggesting and when the
club finally made contact with the ball, it only moved three inches off the
tee. That, my friends, is a slow swing. AND he fixed his problem after successfully
performing a thousand PERFECT swings.
P Michael Biggs
Words of Encouragement
Words of Inspiration
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