How to Play Like Tiger Today
I’m so inspired by the golf tournament yesterday I’m going to have a one day “Tiger and Rocco” sale to enable anyone else inspired by these two great warriors to elevate their game.
(see below for details)
In case you missed it, Tiger Woods made a 12 foot put on the last hole yesterday to tie Rocco Mediate in the U.S.
Open.
Today they play 18 holes against each other to determine the champion.
The two have very different styles.
Tiger is big, focused, dramatic, thrilling, calm, confident.
He is a tiger.
(although part of the thrill with him is that sometimes he doesn’t come through. We expect him to be a machine, but if you’ve watch him for a while there is just enough doubt from past failures that you aren’t quite certain he’s going to come through.)
(In psychology this gives us fans “intermittent reinforcement,” the most powerful addictor.)
Rocco also has a tough sounding first name, but he’s been laughing his way around the course, and after each round talking about how much fun he’s having.
He’s small, unassuming, light.
He’s never contended for a major tournament win like this, while Tiger wins them routinely.
To me their different styles underlines the importance of being yourself.
If Rocco tried to be like Tiger he wouldn’t be playing today.
If Tiger tried to be like Rocco he wouldn’t be playing today.
Both have discovered their strengths and expanded on them through practice and training.
This is one of the top challenges of executives I coach that ascend to new heights running companies: to be themselves.
Expanded, bigger versions of themselves, but themselves none the less, with their own personalities and leadership styles.
So as Tiger and Rocco tee it up today we’ll see different personal styles and different golfing styles.
(Perhaps Rocco hopes his jokes and levity round off Tiger’s mental edge.)
But certain performance fundamentals will be there, like focus, trust, patience, persistence and routine (at least they’ll be there for the winner).
So those of us trying to excel in our own areas can choose the qualities from each we’d like to expand in ourselves.
Action Item: Notice the quality or qualities of the two that stand out to you most. The qualities that stand out to you most stand out to you most for a reason — you have that quality yourself.
Play with expanding that quality in whatever form your 18 hole play-off takes today.
Sincerely,
Tom
Dr. Tom Hanson
www.HeadsUpPerformance.com
www.HansonsGym.com
p.s. For the one day sale, here you go:
Enter the coupon code when you check out with these
programs:
1. $25 off my “Confidence Conditioning” program. Perfect for business and sales people and certainly leaders of any type — and golfers. http://www.ConfidenceConditioning.com;
Coupon Code: Open
2. $25 off my “Coaching the Mental Game of Baseball” (for coaches of 13+ year olds) http://www.BaseballConfidence.com/baseball_coaching.html
Coupon Code: Open
3. $20 off my “Winning the Mental Game of Youth Baseball/Softball” program http://www.BaseballConfidence.com/youth.html;
Coupon Code: Tiger
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