Honest Assessment of Your Performance
Tiger Woods in his early career tied with several guys going into the last day and they just left him in a cloud of dust. And they asked him, “Well, Tiger what happened today?” He said, “While I did not score as well today as...
Affirmations About Running Your Process
Do you have any affirmations that you tell yourself and others that you're going to do at the next tournament you go to? For instance: “I've been working on my process, and I want you to know that when we get to the tournament, all I'm going...
Don’t Go Down the Negative Road
You can't be mediocre and then show up at the tournament on Sunday and be excellent. Excellence is a way of life. You gotta strive to be excellent at everything. This doesn't mean you're going to be perfect at it. You can give it all to...
Getting Out of the Evaluation Quagmire
There have been hundreds of times in the last 35 years when I've had a really good shooter who's trying to learn a new move. He'll be struggling and hit it three or four times. And here's the problem: he thinks he has it. He’s gone to...
The Challenge of Positive Reaction
For most, training your mind to be stronger than your feelings is such a far reach that they can’t even imagine themselves always reacting in a positive way in a difficult negative situation, because it is easier to just give in and enjoy the negativity....
Is It a Mental Problem?
So, you think you have a mental problem or your mental game needs to be improved? You might think this is the only way you can explain the missing targets you know how to break in clutch situations. While you might have a mental problem, let’s...
Building an Inventory of Sight Pictures
In the beginning, it will be difficult for you to commit to a shot as predicted because of your desire to break the target instead of executing the prediction to see if the prediction was correct. When you begin to train this way - by committing...
Giving 100 Percent, 100 Percent of the Time
Shooters often do not practice with intensity, which can confuse them. They go through the motions and fun, and then when they go to a tournament they try, and their brain doesn't recognize them. They're not relaxed or happy-go-lucky - they're not having fun. They're...
What Should Your Post-Shot Routine Look Like?
After you break the first pair, the typical emotional reaction is relief. Wrong. When you break the first pair, and you break that second bird of the first pair, as you open the gun, the first thing you ought to do is replay visually what you...
Small Muscle, Big Muscle
The ideal way for the brain to move the body is small muscle, big muscle. And when I'm moving, as I call or I'm moving before I call, it's so much easier for me to get everything synced up. Because my hands are moving, if the...