The Secret to Effortless Change

What changes are you planning for 2011?

What do you want more of, less of – or perhaps none of - How is it going a month into your New Year?

A New Year, a New Decade. New Opportunities are on the horizon for all of us.

Doing more of what works is the secret to effortless change. The reason is this: focused repetition is the mother of skill. Always learning, always growing. To do, to be, and to create at the next level what you already know - what you are already good at - takes effort. If you have learned to do something one way, you can always learn to do it better. Golfers really understand this. They also understand mental conditioning.

Mental Conditioning will be of interest only to those who want unlimited success. By learning to look beyond the way things are, you expand your learning in areas you already know about. By learning more, you are more skillful in executing what you do more acutely and with less effort. This is a “mental intelligence” that will keep you going both in the coming year and for years to come. Thoughts become things. The same level of thinking that got you where you are now is not going to get you where you need to go.

We each have the power we need to create all the focus required to see the opportunities before us. We know the juice we get from being mentally sharp, on top of our game, when we are clear about things. We all know, in our own way, what works in our life and what does not. The same is true in business and on the golf course.

Neville, author of The Power of Awareness, might have said it best: “Man’s chief delusion is his conviction that there are causes other than his own state of consciousness."

May you have effortless and lasting change beginning now - in 2011 - to do, to be, and to create more of you want and more of what is important to you and yours.

We all live in a world that is moving very fast. If ever you feel like you are on a merry-go-round some days or feel like a hamster on a wheel or feel stuck, may you embrace mental conditioning. Because it is true, in order for things to change - good, bad, wrong, or right - who must change? YOU! You and your thinking must learn to keep up!

Keep it going! Make your change for progress, not change for change and have the Best 2011 - Happy New Year to all, Ida.