My apologies for this post – I aim to give you motivational cartoons but I just loved this ‘suck at golf’ article by Matt Canham, I could have drawn cartoons for each of the 20 reasons – hopefully any golfers out there will love it like I did!?
With carpet like fairways, majestic trees, manicured greens, and fluffy sand bunkers, the game of golf brings out feelings of tranquility, harmony, respect and tradition.
As a game once described by Winston Churchill as being "a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose," it also brings out swearing, frustration, increased blood pressure and shame.
For most of us, in spite of a life time of dedication to the golf range, the golf course, the golf channel and the assortment of golf magaines and gurus, we will still suck at it.
Here are the top 20 reasons why you also suck at golf.
1. You only ever hit a range ball on any hole with a water hazard.
2. You're used to hearing muffled laughter after teeing off on the 1st with people watching.
3. Your drives rarely pass the red ladies markers.
4. You think an 8 is a really good score.
Golfer has scored an 8!
5. You regularly need to repair divots after putting.
6. You still have a bright yellow or orange Top Flight golf ball in your bag.
7. You still have a pink lady golf ball in your bag.
8. You need to use your sand bucket to replace the hole you left in the bunker.
9. You have golf balls in your bag with red stripes on them.
10. You have a "magic pencil."
11. You searched for "Charles Barkley Golf swing" to get some tips.
12. You go to Yahoo answers to ask for golf swing advice.
13. You consider hitting the neighboring fairway to be a good thing.
14. You can accurately guess the age of a tree by the sound your ball makes hitting it.
15. Your score is higher than weight.
16. Your handicap and your score for 9 holes are roughly the same.
17. Your last name is Mulligan.
18. The temperature is the only thing about your score that will ever be in the 70s.
19. Your story of loss at the water hazard involves an entire set of golf clubs.
20. All the caddies scurry back into the caddyshack and hide when you arrive.
If any of these 20 reasons resonate, well then it’s official — you suck at golf.
Matt Canham has been playing golf since the age of 7, has Caddied for Pros and worked for many years with his late Father, Australian PGA Member and Teaching Pro, Peter Canham. He has written 2 ebooks on golf and offers a free ebook titled "Introduction to Golf" at http://marinerblue.com/golf-improvement.html
Don’t do a good job, do a FANTABULOUS job! Your consistent
behavior in your life translates into excellence, and that
is what your employer rewards.
* Be consistent
* Do a great job – in fact, do a fantastic job!
* Do more than expected – go the EXTRA mile!
Going The Extra Mile!
This cartoon was produce for my local Chamber of Commerce who had it printed up as a Thank You card for employee’s who had done well in their jobs. Nice little touch!
A deadline is a time commitment by which your tasks and goals must be achieved. They serve as a powerful strategic weapon which you must use to your advantage.
Here’s a simple yet profound truth, when you set a deadline and expect to get your goals accomplished quickly, they get accomplished quickly.
Any task or goal takes as much time as you allow it to take, and if you set a deadline and don’t allow much time to get the results you expect, it won’t take much time to enjoy victory.
It’s non-negotiable; you will always work best under a self-determined or externally fixed deadline for achieving your goals. By consciously choosing to enforce deadlines and accountability into each action you will begin to fast track your results and rewards.
You will achieve true greatness only after you develop a sense of urgency and importance about what you are doing—urgency to the extent that getting results and achieving your goals is a matter of life or death.
It’s tragically un-hip to procrastinate, to put off for tomorrow what can be done and enjoyed today. A deadline and strong sense of urgency generate energy toward getting results. In short, deadlines challenge you to perform.
Therefore, today and everyday of the challenge, you must purposely put yourself in a position where you have to perform.
One of the biggest mistakes you can make when trying to achieve a goal is to plunge ahead without establishing a high enough sense of urgency in yourself and the situation.
Communicating urgency to yourself and others is one of the true hallmarks of personal and professional leadership.
Understanding the Importance of Deadlines
In an ideal world, behavior shouldn’t depend on deadlines. Behavior should depend on our values, and one of the
values of all high-performing people is a strong sense of urgency.
A clearly understood deadline that is shared, agreed upon, and committed to is the silver bullet of proactive behavior.
There is nothing like a good, old-fashioned, “it’s got to be done by this deadline” requirement that gets you fired up, focused, and into the game.
I thought you might like to see the cover of the book Peter Sinclair and I collaborated on…Smile Your Way To Success. Peter fed me the idea that some negative words were always trying to get into your head. I came up with this idea to repell them!
When commissioning cartoons… Pick TWO of the three options!
Good+Fast = Expensive Choose this and I’ll postpone every other project on my drawing board, my round of golf or give up my footy match ticket and work day and night to get your job done. It WILL NOT BE CHEAP though!
Good+Cheap = Slow Choose good and cheap and I’ll still do a great job at a discounted price. But you’ll have to be patient while I fit you in after my higher paying clients, updating my web site, going down the gym, my footy matches, rounds of golf and liquid lunches!
Fast+Cheap = Inferior Choose this option at your peril. It will still be delivered on time but it will be inferior, as many corners as possible will be cut. You know the saying ‘You get what you pay for!’ The least favorable option in my opinion!
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