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1.) Rewiring for Success: A Deep Dive into the Power of the Mind in Golf

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Are you aware that the true game changer in your golf journey, and possibly in your life, lies dormant in your mind? Welcome to a transformational episode where we delve into the power of the Mind Factor Players Program, its distinctive methods, and how it can revolutionize your golf game. Rather than seeking a quick fix, we emphasize a systematic approach to change that genuinely works, bridging the gap between knowing and action taking. We'll guide you through specific actions and drills, equipping you to elevate your game and, ultimately, transform your life.

We're taking you on a journey through the complex labyrinth of the human mind. Together, we unravel the inner workings of the amygdala, our instinct for familiarity, and how to leverage this understanding to enhance our golf experience. We discuss the necessity to recognize the 'motorways' of our brain and how this awareness can empower us to take calculated risks and chase our goals. This episode is all about unraveling the mysteries of our minds and using this knowledge to master the golf course.

Lastly, we'll enlighten you to the importance of daily action for future success, including the concept of 'rewiring' our brain and the power of living in the present moment. We'll show you how to document your current patterns and habits, and consequently challenge the amygdala's impulse to stick with what's familiar. By focusing on daily completions, we stress the impact of constant progress on your journey to success. So gear up for an enlightening exploration of the mind, your golf game, and the opportunity to rewrite your life with the Mind Factor Players Program.

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Hello, my name is Cal Morris and welcome to the Mind Factor Players Program and congratulations on investing in your future. I have a really strong feeling about the quality of this information. Because of the words I get to hear from some of the golfers that I've worked with and the results they've achieved in the past few years, I know that if you follow this program, the future for your game and possibly your life will look different. It looks different because some of the information you're going to encounter you will have experienced before, but a good portion, I am absolutely certain, you will not have seen or heard anywhere before. Also, for the information that you have already heard, would you agree that there is a big difference between what we know and what we actually do?

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The major thrust of this program is to take this information and actually use it as a key. The first understanding is that you're only going to change your behaviour by actually changing your behaviour. You do not change behaviour by thinking about it. So many people go through that process, constantly thinking, thinking, thinking, but actually take little or no action. The way to use this program is to listen to each of the CDs in order and then you can actually go back and cherry pick the sections that you need to keep repeating. Each of the CDs will give you specific actions and drills to take on and to actually utilise. If you do not do the actions, please donate this program to somebody else, because we're actually wasting each other's time. My presupposition is this program if you've already bought it, you're a serious golfer, you're serious about your game and you're serious about wanting to take it to another level.

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This program isn't a quick fix. Like so many of the other products on the market these days. This is a program that, if you apply, it's a system of change that will actually work. It seems to me that if a life is truly worth living, it's worth living in the sense that you can reflect on it and be satisfied that you've left absolutely no stone unturned in your quest to find out just how good you could be at this game, be that the game of golf, or in your business, or in your life in general.

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I'm certainly not here to tell you what success is. That's a very personal and subjective experience. What I will say, though, is the experience of regret, of not having done what you're truly capable on, is one of the most destructive of human emotions. I get to hear so many people say if only, if only I'd done this, if only I'd done that a talent that has been wasted.

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As a contrast to that, one of the most wonderful stories that I've ever heard is the story told by the daughter of the great wartime leader, winston Churchill, and towards the end of his days he was actually confined to a wheelchair and his daughter used to wheel him out each day to his favourite spot, overlooking the sea, spectacular landscape in front of him. She noticed that on a regular basis, he'd close his eyes and seemingly slip into a state of great contentment. On one and more than one occasion, she noticed that as he closed his eyes, moments later, a tea would often start to flow down his cheeks for no apparent reason. Eventually, she asked him what on earth was going on when closed his eyes, what was going on in his mind when this tea started to flow, and he began to say that the reason for that was that, as he closed his eyes, he began to recall so many of the wonderful experiences that he'd had in his life, the people that he'd met, the challenges that he'd overcome. The wonderful memories of a life worth living literally brought tears to his eyes Tears of joy, recall in the events of a wonderful life.

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How many of us are going to be able to say, when we close their eyes to the end of our days, that we've experienced the same emotions as Winston Churchill, actually being overcome by the incredible events at the time spent here on earth? I, for one, have been really moved by that story because on a daily basis and my work that I do I talk to and deal with people who are just full of so much regret, regret about the opportunities that have passed them by, talents they've wasted and relationships they've destroyed. The story also makes clear to me the truth in the statement made by Richard Bandler, the co-founder of NLP, that one of the greatest delusions held by human beings is the belief that things will last forever, that they are eternal and one day things will just work out fine. Well, we actually get to enjoy our stay here on earth for a really short period of time and literally the blink of an eye we're here and then we're gone, and it seems to me it would be really well worth our time making a big success of this short time, as opposed to failure, frustration and disappointment On the bright side. Well, what is it that you want to do with your game? What do you want to become a success at? How do you want to leave your mark in the world of golf? What kind of play do you want to become? What would success actually look like for you?

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Most of you who've bought this program will probably have bought some similar kind of program in the past, the kind of program that tells you that you should be dreaming big, you should be visualizing success, you should be taking action or manifesting your destiny through the cosmic ordering service or tapping into the secret. Well, so many of the programs out there on the market that promise to be different, promise to have the ultimate formula for success and a sure path to love, light and happiness. And unfortunately, as you've probably found out, most of these programs which you buy have little or no actual impact on your life. You bought the program full of hope. When that didn't work, you had to go out and buy another program to renew that hope. And here you are with yet another program. Well, many of the programs that you'll have bought in the past, or the courses or the seminars that you've gone on, will have what I call the suntan effect, in so much that we take the course, get some information and we feel great, just like when we come back on a holiday with a glistening new suntan. And, just as we know only too well, the tan doesn't last very long. Within a couple of days, it begins to fade and just over a week or so later we are completely back to normal pale skin and all Well.

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In this program, I'm not going to insult your intelligence by giving you the usual hype. What I'm going to do is assure you that this information in this program is based primarily on how your brain actually works. At its heart is research from the world of neuroscience, which will give you an insight into just how that lump of grey matter between your ears truly functions, because I do strongly believe that when you understand how your internal machinery works, you will have the opportunity to create some of the changes in your life that you truly desire. Most of the programs that you've heard before are full of things that you have to do, like setting goals or saying affirmations or any other number of other secrets. The one way that this program is different, very different, is that we're not going to give you a strict agenda of what you have to do but give you an understanding of what it is that's actually stopping you getting your hopes and dreams.

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Think of the brain as being a little bit like a sat nav system in your car. You can punch in your destination, which are your goals, and you can have a great piece of machinery to take you there your body. But one thing that you absolutely have to avoid and work your way around on this journey are the roadblocks, the traffic jams. You need to know in advance where the trouble is and how to get around it, because if you don't, the fantastic car and the magical sat nav system will only leave you feeling in one state, and that's the state of being stuck. Please understand that.

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I want you to realise that success needs to be your own definition and not the definition of a parent club, a set of rules laid down by a religion or an organisation. And sometimes the real success in recognising is actually recognising when you have a pattern and a habit that is actually working and producing good results. In the hunt for self-improvement and instant change, we often miss the very things in life that we are doing, that are working just fine. Sometimes success is actually about recognising what works and doing more of it. When it comes down to the final analysis, it's about you making the decision on what you want in your life. It boils down to your decisions. It may only be a small decision today to take a certain action, but that decision could have a huge impact way down the line in your future. Ultimately, the quality and output in your life will be determined by your daily patterns and habits. Before we get too involved in your patterns and habits, let's just take a look at the control panel that actually installs your habits the brain itself.

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There can be very few disciplines in the world which can claim to have advanced more in the last 10 years than in all of the previous hundreds of years put together, but neuroscience is one of them. The emergence of CAT scans, pet scans, mri scans we're now able to understand far more about the actual workings of the human brain. For me, one of the most exciting discoveries of the last 10 years is that of brain plasticity. A decade ago, if you asked a hundred neuroscientists if they believed in brain plasticity the ability of the brain to change you'd had the best part of a hundred of them saying a categorical no. Basically, it was believed that whatever you had by the time you reach your 20s was pretty much set in stone. That's what you had for good. That's the same neuroscientific community now, and the answers would be completely different.

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To quote Dr Richard Restak, author of the amazing book the New Brain and one of the world's leading authorities on the human brain, as recently as only a few years ago, most neuroscientists believe that brain plasticity largely ceased by adolescence or by early adulthood At the latest. At this point, the brain became fixed in its structure and function. This assumption has turned out to be wrong. We now recognise that our brain isn't limited by considerations that we can apply to machines. Thoughts, feelings and actions, rather than mechanical laws, determine the health of our brain. Just think about that. Restak's words have a profound implication for us all. What he's saying is that with a change in thinking and a change in actions, we are literally able to rewire our brain, and it's this very rewiring process that will be necessary for you if you want to achieve the sort of success at the game of golf that you truly dream of.

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I want you now to begin to think of all of the motorways that you may or may not have been on in your life. How many times have been on the M6 or the M1 or the M25? If you're like me, you've probably been on all of them, and for far too long. I want you to now imagine that inside of your brain, your patterns and habits that run your life are just like motorways they are big and wide and easy to travel down. Each time you travel down that motorway, it makes it easier and easier to take that journey again and again. This is both very good and very bad. Brushing your teeth in the morning is a motorway inside of your brain. That is very useful. It serves a purpose and is well worth repeating. The motorway is so well worn that you'd feel very strange to leave the house without brushing your teeth. That's a pattern that works. That's fine. Keep it in place. But the very same system that keeps you brushing your teeth efficiently keeps you stuck where you are.

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The brain absolutely loves patterns and familiarity. It loves to do the same things over and over again, even if that pattern doesn't work. One of the most profoundly important concepts that I want you to understand, that I've learned, is that the strongest human instinct, I believe, isn't one of survival, but one of familiarity. Just repeat that back to yourself and consider the implications in everything that we do in life. Even though we want to change, this incredibly powerful human instinct wants to cling on to the familiar. It sounds wrong, it sounds illogical, but just take a look at life around you and maybe include yourself in that worldview.

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People who stay in relationships for years and years are abusive, suffering terrible daily ordeals, yet they stay in that relationship. People who smoke, who don't want to smoke they know that cigarettes are going to kill them in the end, but they keep doing it why? Because that abusive relationship, that smoking of the cigarette, is familiar, and this actually carries much less fear than the fear of the unknown. How many people stay in jobs they absolutely hate for 25 years or so, day after day, being completely miserable? Yet they never change because they do what they know as opposed to venturing into the terror of the unknown. The interesting thing, though, is how the conscious mind can justify this craziness by talking about things like a good pension. What incredible insanity is that that you work day after day doing something that makes you feel so bad, patiently waiting for a day, 25 years into the future, so you can draw an amount of money that will mean absolutely nothing. We may not like these facts, but unfortunately they happen to be exactly how the brain works. To consider in your own game, the game of golf, how many times people keep doing the same things over and over again, hoping for a different result. As Einstein said, this is the definition of insanity. To keep doing what doesn't work by doing more of it will not create something that does work.

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Inside of your brain, there is something called the amygdala, a little almond-shaped portion of your brain that each of us has either side of a skull. It's actually kept our species alive for thousands of years by recognizing danger that used to be present in the unfamiliar. Back in the days when we wandered out of our cave and we needed to be critically aware of something new or different, our very existence depended on the amygdala working. The amygdala will record and compare anything new against its established data and send out a strong signal to avoid anything that's new or different. This was a fantastic piece of machinery in our cave days, but unfortunately it's crippling our progress now. Those unconscious feelings that you get of uneasiness and anxiety that well up inside is when we think about a new job, a new venture, a new situation, a new move, a new way of being on the golf course are the amygdala on red alert telling you to avoid the new. However, this very mechanism is a mechanism that keeps us feeling so stuck and frustrated.

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I've actually found, though, that understanding about the amygdala and about this inappropriate firing can actually be a massive breakthrough in and of itself. You know when you have those mysterious feelings of doubt and uncertainty. Well, now understanding this, you can just press on because you understand that it's just our survival mechanism inside of your head, being a little bit too sensitive. It's just like a device that I have on my car that initially, when I bought it, was that was a great idea. The dashboard of my BMW have a sensor which detects any loss in tyre pressure. Unfortunately, it's too sensitive and it keeps going off all the time, even though the tyre pressures are just fine. The number of times I've pulled over and checked the tyres have been incredible, each time to find that things are okay. Now I actually don't take the warnings so seriously. I keep on driving, I keep going. I do check the tyre pressure regularly, but I keep moving this useful system. My car became a problem because it was overly sensitive.

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This is exactly how the amygdala is working for most of us these days To get what we truly want. We need to understand that and overcome this outdated part of our brain, while recognising it will always keep us safe in the face of true danger. So if you consider what your current life, your current game, is giving you and you want a feel that you're getting everything that you need, then the roads that you are using are perfect for you. They're working and you need to keep going down those roads. Just keep checking them from time to time, but the rule is if something is working, you must keep doing it.

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However, if you're at the stage with your game, with your life, when you get a sense that it could be so much more, then it's time to look at laying some new roads, because going down the same old roads, the same old routes, will just give you that feeling of frustration because you're just going over the same old ground as we go through this programme, bear with me on this, and I want to just make the point so clearly. We'll keep referring to the laying of new roads and the tools and techniques that you'll require You'll actually take on board to establish these new roads, to eventually become motorways, and how those motorways will produce the patterns and habits that will allow you to become the best player that you can possibly be. Just for now, though, I want you to imagine that the new roads that we're going to lay in the rest of this programme are just going to be like little dirt tracks that have just been cut out in the countryside. They're very new and they're very vulnerable, and you need to find a way of establishing them so that they'll be very quickly become stronger. They become a road, then become a motorway, and the only way that you can do that is to keep going through, keep working and keep moving in the direction. We need a system of establishing and maintaining our new roads that will lead us in the destination and direction of the journey of success.

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Now to get into the heart of the programme, to get into the heart of the actual activities that I want you to take, I want you to consider something that I call the document. This is such a vital part of the process of change, but it's almost never included in the standard goal-setting systems that you've probably heard or read about before, if we just go back to the analogy of the SATNAV system and consider that machinery actually works. The SATNAV system is dependent on one particular piece of information, not the location, not the route, not the motorway, but the one thing that we need to start this whole process, the whole system of change, is a real, clear and accurate present location. We need to know where we are. We cannot even start the engine and move unless we know exactly where we are now. We need to understand your current situation, your current position in terms of your game, in terms of your life. It's only then can we actually start to calculate a new route and a new road to your required destination. Just the same way, for you to be in your journey, where you want to go, you have to be honest and take a clear and honest look at where you are right now.

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What I'm going to ask you to do is create possibly the most important piece of writing that you've done in the past 10 years. It's a piece of writing one of the plays that I've worked with over the past number of years who's become incredibly successful. A young man called Philip Archer, who plays on the European tour, who's gone in five years from playing just in local pro-hams to actually becoming one of the best players in Europe started this very process, and it's the process of creating the document. The document Now how does it work? Well, what I need you to do, as soon as you've finished listening to this particular CD, what I want you to do is write out a sensory, rich, detailed description of you now, taking a paper and pen, answering these questions.

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What is your golf game currently about? What are the good patterns? What are the patterns which are getting in the way? How are your relationships impacting your golf and your life? Relationships with your coach, other players, family? What do you like about yourself? What do you dislike? Who are the people that have had the biggest impact on you? Who do you admire? Who would you like to be more like?

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Just take out a blank piece of paper and start to write this. Now, let the pen really flow. Be honest. Then open and get down on paper the good and the bad. Just let it out. Write as much down as possible about you. Now. What are you actually like?

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This exercise should actually take you quite a while, so give yourself some quiet time and let all of the thoughts literally flow out of you. Once you have finished this document, you'll actually have a vital piece of information with regards to your future, because you have a clear and concise appraisal of where you are right now. Then I can ask you this key question If you were to continue with your current patterns and habits, will you get to your intended destination? Well, for most of you, the answer will scream off the page at you. No way. Go away. Do the exercise now and then ask the question will my current patterns and habits give me the future that I truly desire? Do this exercise now. Welcome back.

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I'm assuming that you've written out your document. I'm assuming that you understand the concept of laying new roads in your brain. I'm assuming that you understand how the amygdala keeps firing inappropriately, warning you of something that's unfamiliar. Actually, the unfamiliar is where we need to go if we're actually going to achieve anything. But the future is actually all about now. I want you to understand that statement and repeat it back to yourself. The future is all about now. Your future is all about today, here and now.

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So much of our time these days in golf is spent in the future, some far off land, dreaming about how life will be wonderful when I win the tournament, when I get the contract, when I hold the ports when I become longer off the tee. It goes on and on and on. We're constantly journeying in our mind into the future. Back once again to the sat nav. Once the destination is programmed into your system, you actually need to focus totally on the road ahead of you. If your mind begins to wander, as it does, where you're going, you're in big trouble. All the time on TV we hear commentators using the deliberate mark oh, he just needs to stay in the present moment. Well, how the hell can you stay in the present moment when you've trained your mind on a daily basis to live in the future? Can you see the incredible stupidity of it all? And as John Lennon so wonderfully put it many years ago, life is actually what happens while we're busy making plans To be present when it really matters in the future, when you've got that golf tournament to win, when you've got that opportunity to reduce your handicap, we actually need to get good at being in the present moment, here and now.

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Today, with your document by your side, I want you to take the first steps to your destination by asking yourself the question what three things do I need to do today that will lead me towards my dreams. What action do I need to take now? The absolute key to success that matches up in terms of how the brain works and creating new neural pathways that become habits. This is not about thinking about action. It's about taking action. As we've already stated, behavior changes your behavior. It literally rewires the brain. It's what you do that matters.

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So master this key by getting yourself a diary and, at the beginning of each day, write out what I call the three completions. What three things are you absolutely going to do today to move forward to your destination? Once you've written out your completions, you can then go ahead, live today, live your life, take the actions that you need to take, but then consider what it's going to feel like at the end of the day when you're able to look at those three completions and take them off. You've just done what you needed to do today, you've taken action, you've created momentum, and then you write out your completions for tomorrow. You've got a plan of action for tomorrow. It's all about now. You're doing things in the moment. This actually sets up a loop of success, so much that each day you have something to do. You set out to do it, you complete it, you grow, you growing confidence, you grow in stature, your ability increases because you're doing the very things that you need to do.

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Again, I'm not telling you what those things are. It could be about practice, it could be about fitness, it could be about the way that you use your mind, your reactions, you behave, you control your emotions. It doesn't matter. It's not up for me to tell you exactly what it is. What I'm here to tell you is that if you get into the habit, now you've completed your document, you know where you've been for so long that each day you start to take action on your three completions, you're completely focused on the here and now. Your mind becomes absorbed in the next task and the next task and so on. Without realizing it, your daily completions ground you in the present moment. This is such a profoundly simple concept, yet very few people ever understand it. What you'll begin to understand, which is vital for your game, is that by doing this, you gain something wonderful, something wonderful called momentum. You start to move in a direction. You start to uproot the brain's incredible desire for familiarity as you daily keep pushing your boundaries back and changing your behavior.

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The value of actually writing down your daily completions is backed up by huge amounts of research. I've seen it for myself in terms of the people that I've worked with. In so many ways. What I'm telling you is something that you already know, but my question would be is it something that you are actually doing? It would be nice if you could put this CD on late at night, listen to soft music in the background and have me reprogram your mind for success, as so many of the ridiculous self-help programs in the market claim to do. But this program is different in so much that here you're giving a system of change. You're giving a system that actually works, not some new age fantasy. It's a good thing that I can't reprogram your mind. Think about the consequences of that, because what you're understanding here is a way for you to reprogram your own mind.

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So what actions you need to take. You've completed your document. Now you need to get yourself this special completions book. Make the book special to you now. Buy a little notebook in your own favorite color, make sure it feels good. It needs to be right for you. Buy the book today and start off with your first set of completions and you will have taken a massive step in terms of developing the future of your game. We're going to, as we go through the program, fill in details, of course, of some of the completions that you could follow, but essentially you're starting a plan of action that will produce results. We can fill in the details later, but just to go over the information that we've talked about already, consider how many times you've stayed stuck in just doing the same old things over and over again, and is that really going to produce the future that you need?

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In terms of the completions, give yourself a little bit of slack, in the sense that if one day you don't finish your completions, reaffirm the completions for the next day. But once you get into the habit of doing it every single day, you'll feel good about the fact that you've done something that's moved you towards your goal of being the best player that you can possibly be. You've lived today, you've existed today. You've done something today. Your mind has got out of the habit of constantly being in the future, talking about what you're going to become, or back in the past, regretting what hasn't already happened.

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One of the world's great psychologists with the unpronounceable name, mihai Chiksen Mihai summed it up pretty much in this that his life work had been around the study of optimal experience in human beings, about what make people feel happy, what makes them feel good, and somebody asked him if he could sum up concisely what he'd learned and he just said well, for me, I begin to understand that the happy person actually does something difficult every single day. I consider that. Consider the fact that we're actually meant to overcome obstacles. We're actually meant to set ourselves challenges. You have a challenge now. You've completed the first CD. Bear with me on the information in terms of the knowledge that you now have about the brain. You know where you are, you know where you've been. You have a very specific thing to work on get yourself the completions book. Start today. Put your first three set of completions in. Just imagine how good you're gonna feel when you've done that, and then you'll be ready to listen to CD2.