156. Overcome Fear and Self-Doubt with Hypnotherapist Paul Salter!

🌟 Can Hypnotherapist Help You Transform Your Mindset?🌟

Welcome to the Ekabo Home Financial Freedom Podcast! In this episode, we explore the transformative power of mindset and performance with Paul Salter, known as "The Golf Hypnotherapist." Paul is a high-performance mindset coach and certified hypnotherapist with over 15 years of experience helping athletes, entrepreneurs, and professionals break through mental roadblocks.

Paul specializes in using hypnosis and subconscious reprogramming to eliminate self-sabotage, fear, and performance anxiety, particularly for golfers looking to lower their scores. 🎯

🌟 About Paul Salter

Paul combines hypnosis, subconscious reprogramming, and mindset coaching to help clients shift from unconscious, destructive reactions to conscious, productive responses. He previously worked as a high-performance dietitian with Olympic and professional athletes, focusing on the mental game before transitioning full-time to hypnotherapy.

🔥 The Quote of the Day:

"You can only change if you change."

— Paul Salter

This quote captures the essence of our discussion on personal growth and the importance of taking actionable steps toward improvement.

🔍 Key Insights from Our Conversation:

🧠 Understanding Hypnosis: Paul demystifies hypnosis, explaining how it can be a powerful tool for personal development and overcoming limiting beliefs.

🚀 Mindset vs. Strategy: We discuss the critical difference between being committed to a goal versus merely being interested, emphasizing the need for a growth mindset.

🎙️ Episode Highlights:

🎬 Paul's Journey: Paul shares his unique path from sports nutrition to hypnotherapy and how his experiences shaped his coaching philosophy.

💡 Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: We delve into the common struggles of high achievers and how to break free from self-doubt.

📱 Practical Tips for Success: Paul provides actionable steps for listeners to improve their mindset and achieve their goals, including the importance of self-awareness and commitment.

👉 Get in Touch with Paul:

If you're interested in learning more about mindset coaching or want to explore hypnosis, visit thegolfhypnotherapist.com or reach out via email at paul@unstuckyourselfmindset.com.

Follow Paul on Social Media:

• 📸 Instagram | 📘 Facebook - @PaulSalterCoaching
• 🐦 X - @parsoverbogeys

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Transcript

Welcome & Mission Of The Show

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Welcome to the Financial Freedom Mastermind Group Podcast. Here we're all about breaking free from the 40 to 50 year work ride and accelerating our journey towards financial freedom. Join us every Wednesday at 7 p.m. Eastern as we explore different types of investments that can fast track your path to financial independence. We serve as a hub for connecting with fellow members during our sessions so you can share successes, ask questions, and keep the momentum going.

Meet Paul Salter And His Work

SPEAKER_02 0:27

Good evening, everyone. This is Ni Yi Adwale, host of the Akaba Home Financial Freedom Mastermind podcast. And tonight is for those who are building wealth, chasing freedom, and refusing to let their mindset be the thing that slows them down. Because today we're joined by Paul Salter. And Paul is a mindset and performance coach, a hypnotherapist, and the guy known as the golf hypnotherapist. He's actually helped athletes and entrepreneurs rewire their beliefs and push past the imposter syndrome to break through invisible barriers. And so, Paul, we're excited to have you here, man.

SPEAKER_00 1:03

Ni, it's my pleasure. Love the energy already, excited for this.

SPEAKER_02 1:07

Hey, come on now. And I have to ask, right? When people walk up to you and they're like, hey, what do you do? When you say you're a hypnotherapist, what does that mean?

Theta State And The Subconscious

Learned Beliefs And Unlearning

SPEAKER_00 1:15

That's funny you ask that because I'm very intentional in how I respond, depending on the audience, the context. But I I love to lead with it because as you know, it uh sparks curiosity. And I always like to begin with what hypnosis is not, because many of you listening, and maybe even new you need are thinking I'm gonna dangle a pocket watch, I'm gonna get you to cluck like a chicken, or you're thinking of that time you went to a comedy club, you saw stage hypnosis, and technically all of that is hypnosis, but it's not anything like what I do or how I use it. So the best place is then to remind you is hypnosis is not mind control. It's not brainwashing, it's not magic. You're in control, conscious, aware, and awake every step of the way. It's actually a natural state of mind. And most people don't understand that. Hypnosis is just a word to describe when your brain is producing a specific type of, excuse me, brainwave. And that's known as a theta brainwave. And that's the sweet spot between slight relaxation and deep sleep. And when we are in that state of mind, which is the same state of mind you're in the moment you transition from sleeping to waking, when you're caught up in a good book, in flow, listening to this podcast or immersed deeply on a work project you love, there's a really golden opportunity to capitalize on the hypnotic state when you go there intentionally. So two big benefits happen to you, and then you I'll put it back in your core. But number one, every single one of you listening right now, you're ambitious. You've got your sight set on next level success. You also have that pain in the butt, harsh inner critic with its judgmental comments in the background, too. So when we go into that hypnotic state intentionally, we silence that pain in the butt, quiet all of that noise and negativity. And then, second, we connect directly with your subconscious mind. The reason this is so valuable is 95% of what you and I do every day is influenced by our subconscious mind. It's home to our memories, beliefs, our behaviors, as well as our values and habits. So, in essence, it gives us an opportunity to go back to the origin of when, you know, that imposter syndrome, those fears, limiting beliefs, procrastination, and perfectionistic tendencies, when they came to be, because they're all learned behaviors. And when we can go back and understand when, why, and how they were formed, and then take the next step to unlearn them, you get an immediate abundance of energy available to you to build better beliefs, better behaviors to take you where you want to go. Come on now.

SPEAKER_02 3:42

And when you when you touched on the piece about learned behaviors, this is something that I'm super conscious of right now. As many of the listeners know, I have a newborn who is turning seven months next week. And when you look at that, the thing that I'm really cautious about is, and I talked to his mom about this, is not jumping too much if something goes down. For example, if he falls down and and you know he bumps his head or something of that nature, it's like, listen, he's gonna look to us to see how to react to this. And if we're calm and relaxed, he's gonna be fine. If we freak out, he's gonna start crying and all these things, and that's learn behavior, like, hey, I should be doing this. And so I think you're spot on. Like unlearning some of the things that are holding you back can truly help you unlock just much higher level.

Parenting, Language, And Early Programming

Forming Beliefs By Age Seven

SPEAKER_00 4:25

Well said. Two points. One, congratulations. That's exciting. Seven months. Yeah, I've got a 14-month-old at home. So I'm a couple steps ahead of you. Uh but you're so right. I am more intentional in how I speak to him and speak to myself than I've ever been before, constantly just filling his ears with love, positivity, confidence, affirmation. So I love that you're doing that as well. And then, second, you said a really important word. Should. And for anybody listening, and you ever catch yourself in that stream of self-talk saying, Well, I should do this or it should be done this way, take a step back. Why? Where did you learn that? You know, what's really fascinating is researchers estimate 95% of our core belief system is formed by the age of seven. You have no say in your belief system. You do, however, have a responsibility to unlearn the beliefs that aren't serving you so you can shine your light as brightly brightly as possible and share your gift with the world.

Paul’s Path From Sports To Mindset

SPEAKER_02 5:21

Absolutely. 100% agree. And it's one of those things where as we get older, you start to realize like where some of these things came from that you do, even like the daily activities. It's like, hey, I can stop this if I want to, and I probably will, right? And so a question for you when did you start going down this path? Was this always something that you were interested in? Or what was that light bulb moment that made you realize, hey, for a lot of people, it's the mindset, not strategy, and how can I help people with that mindset?

Strategy vs Mindset In Real Results

SPEAKER_00 5:52

It's an interesting story. So I was a multi-sport athlete growing up, but I had a very late growth spurt. So as a 14-year-old freshman in high school, I'm still like five, three, a hundred, 110 pounds. All of my peers are bigger, stronger, faster. And I'm very competitive, but I am struggling to keep up with everybody else. They're just that much bigger. So I fell in love with the weight room. Fantastic. My mom, you know, imprinted some healthy eating behaviors on us, fantastic. But I was always fascinated by, you know, why is Tiger Woods, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Roger Federer, why are they all so much better than their peers? Yet they practice and train roughly the same amount of time. So from a very early age, I had that curiosity rooted in what I later learned was performance psychology, you know, the why behind what drove people to be outstanding, great, elite performers, athletically or professionally. And honestly, it started there and it served as a catalyst my entire coaching career. It's been 17 years now. I started in the nutrition space, actually. You know, thank you, mom, for that. Surrounding myself with college professional and Olympic athletes, and of course, helping them with their nutrition, selfishly sitting back and just observing how they carried themselves, how they talked about themselves. And I learned very quickly that everybody knows how to eat healthy. If they don't, Google Chat GPT easily answers a couple of questions in a matter of milliseconds. It's the application consistently where everyone gets into trouble. And that's not a knowledge problem, it's a mindset problem, it's an emotional problem. And as I unlock that with my clients and further my own growth and development, things just continue to click and to fall into place.

Commitment Over Interest

SPEAKER_02 7:34

Absolutely. No, and and to that point, right, for those of us who are newer to this, because when you talk about mindset and even hiring coaching, right? Coaching in general, this is something that I've come around to from a business standpoint. I was an athlete too in college. I played uh football and we had coaches for everything, right? But then you get out of that, you get in the business world, and you're just like, oh yeah, I'm just supposed to know this stuff. It's like, no, you actually should hire coaches because they're gonna help with their experience accelerate you a lot quicker and put you through a lot less turmoil. And so for those that are still trying to come around to that, what is a simple first step that they can take to start to understand the benefits of this and start to realize it?

SPEAKER_00 8:16

Well, first, I just want to echo what you share. I'm a big proponent of asking for help accelerates results. Period. And I go two ways with my answer. I promise I'll get back to the short low-hanging fruit action step. But there's a big difference between being committed to a goal versus being interested in a goal. Far too many people think they're committed when they're actually, in all honesty, interested. It's energetically different. How you show up, talk about it, be about it, take action about it. You know, I joke all the time. There was a period in my life where I was interested in learning Spanish, playing more pickleball, doing more of this. I played pickleball like once in a six-month period of time. I barely dabbled in Spanish. Whereas I was committed to writing a book. And guess what? Every day for 500 words or 60 minutes, I wrote my book every single freaking day. There's a big difference in committed and interested. But when you realize what you're committed in, you want it so badly, it helps to surrender your ego, to let go of the stubbornness, to ask for help. So the low-hanging fruit here and your action step for you listening right now is to be very honest with yourself. What do you want? And are you committed to that or are you interested? Because commitment demands all of you, and a worthy pursuit comes with an abundance of expected and unexpected challenges. Will you show up when you don't feel like it? And will you persevere? And having a coach in your corner accelerates or time collapses the timeline to achievement.

Daily Actions, Mirrors, And Mantras

SPEAKER_02 9:51

Yes, and that commitment piece is huge, right? Because you don't have to commit to everything. And and honestly, it helps if you commit to less things, things that you can actually remember without having to go back and look at a whole document, right? Yes. And and just even one of the things that I started doing um just a few years ago was repeating those commitments in the mirror, right? Just in the morning once or twice. And it's crazy what you can achieve when you keep something top of mind and you actually go after it. And if you take that little bite every day, like you were doing with the book, right? Of hey, I'm gonna write for 60 minutes, whether I'm inspired or not, right? And and or 50, 500 words, right? If you do that and keep swinging that that axe at that tree every single day, eventually it's gonna fall. And so to that point, you mentioned the book that you've been working on, and that's that's an aspiration I want to have in the future, but definitely have not committed to it yet. When is that book coming out and and and what are some of the details about it?

The Book Backstory And Release

SPEAKER_00 10:48

What is it fully about? Well, so I'm gonna tell you an interesting story that's very timely. So I actually wrote this book three and a half years ago, and I finished about 95% of it. And this was at a time in my life where I mentioned earlier a lot of my coaching was rooted in nutrition, and I moved on from athletics to sustainable weight loss, specifically helping men and women achieve sustainable weight loss from the inside and out, tackling their limiting beliefs, their emotional hangups to achieve lasting success. So, my book, after 14 years of doing that, was kind of like my gift to the industry. Like, this is all of my knowledge over 14 years, thousands of clients. Here's what I learned. And it was so almost like therapeutic and like brain dumping. I used to say word vomiting, all of my knowledge out. I kid you not, knee, in about six weeks, 75,000 words just awesome, out in the Google Doc on paper, hundreds and hundreds of pages. And I didn't really know what to do with it because I was letting go of the nutrition chapter of my coaching. I was doubling down on hypnosis and mindset coaching for entrepreneurs and athletes, letting go of the nutrition. And one of my coaches, see, Power of Coaches, brought it up about six months ago as like, you've mentioned this a few times. It seems like it's an unclosed loop in your mind. It's still holding energy, occupying space and thoughts. I didn't like hearing that, if I'm candid. I didn't really want to revisit the book and finish. I thought it was good enough, but I caught myself one of my own patterns was sometimes settling for good enough rather than choosing to be great. So I went back and finished that book. And it's funny that you ask, it is due out on February 16th. Holy, that's amazing.

SPEAKER_02 12:23

And what's the title of this book?

SPEAKER_00 12:25

Yes. So the the title is The Sustainable Weight Loss Code 61 Laws to Lose Weight and Keep It Off for Good.

Sustainable Weight Loss Principles

SPEAKER_02 12:32

I actually love this. And a lot of the people, especially those that are in the not necessarily entrepreneur space, but the people that listen to our podcast that are still in the W-2, still work in corporate, and and all you do in corporate for a lot of the time is you're sitting around a lot and you're thinking about, you know, how the heck do I get out of here? And at times there's celebrations and there's all these treats and all this stuff that is not necessarily helping your health. And so, what are at least one of those tips that you would give to somebody to just live an overall more healthy life?

Feelings Behind Goals And Simplicity

SPEAKER_00 13:02

Well, so it's such a great timely point for our discussion, the wonderful work you do because it all starts with you, the journey of self-improvement. You know, your relationship with food is rooted in your relationship with yourself. And if you are negative, you don't feel you are worthy, deserving, or capable, those bring you down to such a low negative energy vibe. What's the quickest way to uplift yourself? Sugar, crap food, highly processed nonsense, you know, another episode on Netflix versus getting a workout in. So, really, you know, the book is designed, it's the 61 laws, but before that, I call them the 10 commandments of sustainable weight loss. And it starts with something I literally have tattooed on my arm is you can only change if you change. And it's about embodying ownership that in order to achieve different, you need to do different, think different, be different. So for those of you listening, it's really beginning to understand who do I need to become to feel confident, energetic, healthy, happy, alive. And I think that the really the secret sauce in all of this, Ni, is like every goal you're pursuing, weight loss, financially, professionally, it's all rooted in a feeling. Like I joke in the book all the time, you know, you tell me you want to weigh X amount on the scale. I'm like, that sounds great, but that's not really what you want. You want to feel confident, sexy, energetic, healthy, in control. So when you get clear on how you want to feel, you know, two to three adjectives or emotions, you can now reverse engineer the path to get there. What are one or two action steps that help you feel healthy, energetic, whatever it may be? Do those things with an unrelenting commitment. That's the piece.

Imposter Syndrome And Belonging

SPEAKER_02 14:44

It's getting simple with it, right? Not keeping it too vague, but but narrowing it down to, hey, it's not that I want to get to X weight, it's that I feel comfortable walking around, I fit into my clothes and confident and things of that nature. And that's why I want to get there. And and what do you say to those who have come a long way, right? And maybe have reached higher heights than anybody thought they would, but are now suffering from, you know, say imposter syndrome to where they're thinking, like, man, do I even deserve the success that I have or to continue moving forward and achieving more?

Social Media Anxiety And Visibility

SPEAKER_00 15:15

Yeah. I mean, first I would say you're not alone. It's incredibly normal. Some of the most successful people I work with, like who you see and you're like on paper, oh my gosh, incredibly successful, they suffer with the same thing. And it makes sense because, and what I mean by that is we are all biologically wired to survive, not thrive. And more specifically, we're all biologically wired to belong. You know, long ago, we were literally a tribal species. And if you were judged, rejected, and ultimately abandoned by your tribe, you either starve to death or you were eaten by that famous saber-toothed tiger who ate all of our ancestors. And although we have much more safety available to us now than ever before compared to our ancestors, the visceral irrationality of that fear is still as prominent as ever. So for the person listening who's had some next level success ascension, what's happening is they're actually starting to create some distance and separation from their tribe. Could be parents, could be their significant other, friends, siblings. And under the current, under the surface rather, there's a current of tension or resentment that could begin to boil. And that threat of, oh my gosh, you know, does so-and-so judge me? Do they resent me? Do they have envy? Do they not like me anymore? Maybe you don't get invited to something. All of that begins to unconsciously influence your ability to continue to do the little things that allowed you to have the success in the first place. You start playing small, pulling back, you're inconsistent, you're procrastinating, you're overthinking. So it's all well and good and incredibly normal. Where the deep work opportunity and upgrade resides is understanding why do you believe you're not worthy, deserving, or capable of that next level of success with a sprinkle of why do you care so much about the opinions of others? And again, all of that is learned. It can be unlearned.

SPEAKER_02 17:04

Yes. And part of that learning, and this is probably a bit of a firestorm here, is social media, right? I feel like, and I'm not the only one to say this, social media has has made that feeling 10 times more to where now you're able to see some of the other things that other people have, right? Or you can see that, hey, I'm not perfect in this manner, or these folks who have put together a curated picture or a curated video, right? It's not the actual full story, but but now this is starting to affect you. Or on the flip side, actually, I have a team of agents, right? Um, and we're investor-friendly realtors and we cover Georgia, Florida, and we're expanding. And now I'm working through coaching calls with the team to help some of our members get more comfortable posting on social media and realizing, like, hey, this is a good way to continue to build, but they're they're nervous about what you just said. Like, hey, what if somebody doesn't like this or they put a negative comment? And so, how do you? I'm gonna put this whole social media firestorm at your lap. How do you help people move through that piece in this society?

Using Hypnosis To Find Root Causes

Workshops, Teams, And How To Connect

SPEAKER_00 18:01

Yeah, so I'm gonna get a little bit nuanced here. So I'm gonna bring in hypnosis into the equation. Obviously, I'm biased. I'm a hypnotherapist. Hypnosis changed my life, which is why I evolved and acquired this tool. But specifically here, we go to this case. This is actually very common with realtors. I deal with this a lot. I work with a lot of real estate agents. The posting on social media, they know the visibility is so valuable because visibility, it builds credibility, credibility, it leads to profitability. So they know it's something they need to do. And listen carefully here. When you know you something, when you know what to do to achieve success and you're not doing it, again, it's not an information problem. It's a mindset problem. So here we need to get really clear. And we'll run with this example. You know, if I'm opening my phone, I know I need to post, I got to film that reel or that video, whatever it is, and I'm feeling anxious. I'm feeling tense, tight, shallow breath. It's so overwhelming for me. That's phenomenal data for me as the coach because I can use that. I leverage that. And what I mean by that is I start in that hypnotic state, having that individual go back, take me back to the last time you felt that way. What's the next time you felt that way? And what happens is inevitably we can get back to one of, if not the first moment in memory they have, ever feeling that same tension, tightness, and anxiety about putting themselves out there. And candidly, very often it's you know, that seven-year-old having to give a presentation in front of classmates and maybe they stumbled, maybe they mispronounced something and they laughed at them. The teacher didn't help them, they felt embarrassed, they felt judged, and they learned and internalized the belief it's not safe to speak up or stand down in front of other people. And they carried that speaking-related anxiety their whole life, and it shows up in the big picture team meetings, speaking engagements, or posting on social media. So we can go to that moment, we can release that, provide perspectives, unlearn it, take that energy to build a deep sense of safety speaking in similar situations moving forward.

SPEAKER_02 20:00

Come on now, getting right to the root cause, right? Not treating the symptoms.

SPEAKER_00 20:05

Yeah, that's what so many people do because let's be honest, it feels good for the moment. But I often say it's like putting a band-aid over a bullet wound. Man, I mean, it might stop the bleeding for a minute or two, but it's not doing anything to the bullet wound itself.

Golf As A Mirror For Mindset

SPEAKER_02 20:20

This is true. This is true. And and I know you you do a lot of one-on-one coaching. Do you do one-to-many? And I'm asking selfishly because I'm starting to invest a bit with the with the team. We actually have uh like some training coming up at the end of this week where we're doing like uh a team flying out from Chicago and doing presentation class all day with them. But uh, do you do any one-to-many trainings on this piece?

SPEAKER_00 20:45

Yeah, exactly that. I do I lead a lot of workshops, keynotes, speaking. Actually, you know, just was it weird? Oh, I guess we're in February now. But in December, I did three different workshops to a group of real estate investors, brokers, and agents. And it's you know, curated to whatever their specific challenges, working with their team, lead and executive team to deliver just that, whatever their biggest bottleneck and frustration is collectively. How can we help on an individual and then ultimately a team level?

SPEAKER_02 21:08

And if people want to come to you for that service, how do they get in contact with you? And then also with the book launching literally in a week and a couple days, how are we gonna get a hold of that?

SPEAKER_00 21:19

Yeah, so the book will be on Amazon. It'll also be at the SWLC, so sustainable weight loss code book.com. SWLC book.com is where it will be live, but just buy it on Amazon. That's easiest for everybody involved. And then in terms of getting a hold of me, the best website to learn more about me, my work is thegolfhypnotherapist.com. I know it may create confusion. I work with plenty of non golfers, happens just to be where I've niched on the internet these days, or even simpler, Paul at unstuckyourselfmindset.com.

Triggers, Presence, And Resilience

SPEAKER_02 21:54

And Paul, I wanted to get that info out there before kind of taking us off the rails. So golf. Let's dive. Into this, right? Can you take a non-golfer, right? Which is i.e. me, because we are during the pandemic, I tried to pick up two sports, right? I was used to playing, like, you know, pick up basketball, which you couldn't do, or flag foot football, which you couldn't do as well, because it was too close. And and I started trying to play tennis and golf. I settled on tennis because I still love running around. I'm like, okay, my hits are questionable, but golf was one that was super hard to pick up. And once I did even start to get a swing or two in, it gets super frustrating when you miss one of those. And so, how do you help golfers achieve kind of that mental state to be at their best?

Closing, Resources, And Weekly Invite

SPEAKER_00 22:35

Well, it's so interesting. Let's use you as a case study for a moment. And I don't know all of the uh into details of your professional, I mean of your collegiate career, but I can imagine you play a sport collegiately, you're driven, you're ambitious, you're incredibly skilled, committed, your work ethic is second to none, and you excel. If you play at that level, you absolutely excel. And then you come pick up a sport and you're not that good instantly. And there's impatience, there's frustration, there's irritation. What the heck? I'm so good over here. Why isn't it transferring? And candidly, that's what it is for a lot of people of all different ranks. And we can talk more professional serious golfers in a moment, but a lot of it is realizing, you know, I'm very good at this area of my life. Why does it not transfer into this area of our life? And we have to remember it's like taking skills from one ocean and trying to use them to swim in a completely different climate, terrain, and environment. Eventually it all will work, but you have to get acclimated to it. So in the game of golf, first and foremost, it is a hell of a lot of a slower game to say the least. You know, between addressing the ball and swinging 15 to 30 seconds, then you walk or ride your cart for five minutes, you find your ball, you do it again. In the course of four, four and a half hours, you're only really playing golf for 12 or 15 minutes. So you have all of this time for your mind to go who knows where. So, really, it's about learning the skill of cultivating presence on demand. You don't need to be on and locked in for four hours, where something like basketball, you got to be locked in. There's 10 people moving up and down the court at lightning speed, ball going different directions, changing directions. Golf is just a totally different animal. And really, it's just acclimating to that first and foremost because many people begin to struggle with that downtime. I imagine you're fairly similar in how you're wired to me and everyone listening. You go, you go, you do, you do that ambition, that speed, that hustle is a superpower. Guess what? It only runs you into the side of the road on the golf course. So there's so many avenues I could go with this, but I'll leave you with this analogy. I tell my clients, whether it's entrepreneurship or whether it's the game of golf, both are nothing more than a mirror of your own personal development journey. You don't just struggle with imposter syndrome or performance anxiety on the golf course. Shows up in the boardroom, shows up at home and every other nook and cranny of your life.

SPEAKER_02 24:54

You just broke down my whole golf experience very clearly. Like legit, I think that's the way you phrased it, I've never heard it phrased that way, but it's spot on. Like it's easier to get locked in when you're playing a game of tennis or basketball or football because like there's constantly something going on. You've got to be kind of locked in. You can just be focused the whole time. And to your point, golf is almost like the the opposite, where you know, you're talking to people about something completely different, and then you gotta lock in for this 30 minutes, 30 seconds to two minutes to to hit the perfect ball, hopefully. Yeah, and then keep going. And that that is difficult.

SPEAKER_00 25:28

Yeah. And again, though, it teaches you so much because there are countless triggers on the golf course, just like there are in life. You know, I joke with my golfers, there's plenty of physical hazards, water, bunkers, rough, but there's no shortage of emotional and mental hazards. You hit a bad shot. Are you gonna react or are you gonna respond? Your playing partner hits a phenomenal shot, or not your competitor hits a phenomenal shot. Do you get stressed, anxious, and try to force the action, or do you remain poised, composed, focused on your processes? Just like in life, you don't get a deal, you get rejected. How are you gonna bounce back from that? You know, you have a frustrating conversation with a member of your team, somebody you're attempting to lead. How do you manage that? All of these are emotions, behaviors, beliefs, and programs just showing up at work or on the golf course. Come on now, Paul.

SPEAKER_02 26:18

We appreciate you. This book is one that I'm definitely gonna pick up. I love ordering any books that the guests that we have bring on. And I think that just this overall message that you're bringing of addressing the mindset to then address everything else, whether it be the health benefits, whether it be some of the goals that you're trying to win that you're trying to accomplish, or whether it be just the the the future that you're trying to achieve, uh I think that's all starts in the mind. It's been proven over many, many years and decades and centuries that that it all starts in the mind. And so what you're doing is truly helping people get off the ground and get started in the venture that's gonna be the rest of their lives.

SPEAKER_00 26:56

Well said. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

Come on now. Paul, you already gave us your contact, but anything else that you're working on that we should get excited about? Are you gonna be in the ATL area at any point this year? I mean, I would love to. Are we going golfing? We go playing football, we're playing basketball, what are we doing? Listen, let me go get let me go get some practice at the golfing because I I can tell you're gonna go out there and smoke me.

SPEAKER_00 27:16

But I I'm down in Tampa, Florida. I mean, I do love to travel, but just like you, I am maximizing father time with my little boy, loving that. And and really, again, I think the best place, you know, I have a podcast as well. It's called the Scratch Golfers Mindset Podcast. It's actually a personal development podcast, disguised as a golf mindset podcast. You don't have to be a golfer to find value, whether it's from me or the list of amazing guests I have. So if you love the work and the messaging that resonated with you, I think you'll love the podcast as well.

SPEAKER_02 27:44

Paul, we appreciate you. And for those that are gonna listen in the future, go ahead and give Paul Salters a follow. Pick up the book. We're gonna put all the links in the description below. And we look forward to to circling back in a few years for your second book. Because I can tell that you're probably gonna have a few more coming out. It's already it's already started.

SPEAKER_01 28:04

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