How can we gain confidence internally?
First and foremost don't ever let anybody ever tell you that you must be confident when you play play like Shi$. Because if you play like Shi$ this would be considered Delusional Confidence. However, don't lose your belief if you play bad. Players that have these ugly swings, but shoot great scores do this because of belief in themselves on a day to day basis and the confidence is because of this great belief from within along with seeing real results, you must have both. We will touch on belief in yourself on another day, but today is about building real long term confidence versus the superficial stuff or lack of confidence
You can't fake confidence although we see people try all the time and we should never ever try and lie to ourselves either way. Humans are to smart and we know when we are BSING ourselves about something such as thinking we're great at something that we are not. Always though if it's a goal of yours under all circumstances maintain your belief and the odds go up that you will reach your goals...
Top 5 Confidence Builders
#1 Confidence builder find a circle of great players in get in their money games. This may sound insane, but humans compete and when we're backed into a corner we typically will play or do better at whatever it is we are trying to achieve and this gives us a tremendous amount of confidence when we see this. Always play for something on the course as the great Harvey Pennick said in his book.
By playing with better players it will push you between playing sessions to go practice in the areas that's needed because you will still have that burning feeling of getting your tail handed to you from the past week and this nasty taste of getting beat is something we humans don't like by nature, so we go train and correct it. Think about it if you the longer this goes on the more you are building your skill set and the more you build your skill set the more real confidence you are truly
Set simple specific challenges in your practice and playing sessions because when we start accomplishing even the smallest of goals we start to build a tremendous amount of confidence
#2 Confidence builder Set simple specific challenges in your practice and playing sessions because when we start accomplishing even the smallest of goals we start to build a tremendous amount of confidence. Set scoring goals first and foremost and make sure you have timelines of when you are going to achieve these scoring goals. Learn about the law of attraction, google it and study it. If you believe in the old saying "ask and you shall receive" you will understand that this goes along with the law of attraction, but the law of attraction goes into a much greater depth and also presents a more strategic and precise way to ask and receive.
#3 Confidence builder find a performance team such as reputable teacher, golf fitness expert, mental coach, club fitting expert ect that will all be on your side to help you reach these goals. The old typical is just hire a teacher and all will be fine, UGH not always the case. Why? because the every golfer needs different things for improvement and it's certainly not always golf swing, however most of the time if you have a great teacher you will be in good shape because they will understand the game as a whole. Having a great team around you will cost you some $$$ but hell what doesn't anymore. Having a great team will also give you more confidence
#4 Confidence builder find a time in your life where you accomplished a major task or achieved a tough goal in general and feed yourself confidence off those past achievements. Reflection of success is a tool that all Champions do. Constantly see yourself able because you've achieved tough goals before. This is crucial to building confidence in yourself
#5 Confidence builder find the mantra and self talks on a daily basis that make you more confident about yourself. Mantras such as Let's go do this or I've got this ect Champions use mantras on a daily basis and these mantras are always positive and very short. Mantras are designed to enforce positive thoughts, regain focus and make us remember the present...
The truth is most will not like to hear this, but confidence is performance based. You play better you have more confidence. However belief is different ALWAYS believe in yourself regardless to results either way. Many people confuse the two. You can have confidence through results, but yet not a lot of belief in yourself. But if you believe in yourself first and you start getting great confidence through performance on the course this is when a perfect synergy of success happens for the player and they breakdown these barriers and obstacles the great game of golf presents
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