Author	Thread: Nothing Like A Good Rambling Golfing Platitude
Admin	Nothing Like A Good Rambling Golfing Platitude Posted : 24 Jan, 2012 11:50 PM Like dating, there are a million +1 tips and advice and attitudes it seems everybody and their mother have when it comes golf. Last week I got caught up watching the golf channel for the first time, learned some neat new tips, and just couldn't wait to get out there and see my amazing new and improved game now armed with this new knowledge. Then the complete opposite happened. Got really mad and really frustrated. Finally I realized that in focusing so much on the more finer and advanced aspects I had completely abandoned the basics and what worked for me that made me a reletively decent golfer in the first place (as in I rarely lose my ball only every 9 holes or so and never get more than quadruple bogy type of reletively decent). Fortunately I was able to get back to the point where I just had to clear my mind of all that and not worry or care where the ball landed. Which sounds ludicrous especially to me. But, the less I worry the better i do and the more fun I have (and the funner I am to be around), but sooner or later it's so tempting to either think of that as being foolish and careless or 'If I do this well without thinking, just imagine how good I'd do if I was thinking and focusing' type mentality. The problem with that is when you do this, your thoughts and focus are on the next shot that will not happen, because you're not on the one you are taking now. Subconciously it's also like you're thinking that if you don't hit it just right on this shot everything will be messed up rather than knowing that it doesn't matter where your next shot will end up because you're confident that you'll hit that one well too. Anyway, I just thought that was cool and wanted to share since the same seems to be true with dating too in that the more we worry and are frustrated the less successful, and less fun, and less fun to be around we will be. Post Reply
View Profile History	Nothing Like A Good Rambling Golfing Platitude Posted : 31 Jan, 2012 01:38 PM I only say that what you have come up with is wrong, not because I am not willing to try, but because I have tried it many times and it never works. I'm not just being stubborn. Post Reply
View Profile History	Nothing Like A Good Rambling Golfing Platitude Posted : 31 Jan, 2012 05:10 PM Fair enough, cobb. I wish I could help I really do. Post Reply
View Profile History	Nothing Like A Good Rambling Golfing Platitude Posted : 1 Feb, 2012 05:09 PM Can't help with the golfing platitude, but here's one you may have heard before: A farmer who reared chicks was getting desperate because his farm was in an area that often flooded. When this happened, the chickens would all drown and it would take a while before he could recover from it - so much so that instead of being profitable it was running at a loss. One day the farm flooded again and sure enough, all the chickens drowned. With his head in his hands in despair, he complained to his wife that he couldn't afford to keep doing this. She simply replied "rear ducks..." I like Cobbler. I respect the advice he gives and his posts are generally well thought out. Unfortunately my advice in the past doesn't seem to have worked for him (no surprises there though - it's not worked for me either!) and I'll be first to admit I'm not qualified to give dating tips, but he does seem to only see himself as being the problem - not recognising that *both* the man and the woman need to be right. Put another way, I don't consider I have any handicap towards a relationship (as you probably don't either), but we're ultimately no more successful - we just don't see it as something *we* are doing wrong! All I can do is offer encouragement that he's not alone in this, whilst trying not to despair myself. Post Reply

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