CPR & The Release Routine: The Two Missing Pieces That Make the System Automatic

You've got the trigger. You've got the breathing. You've got the mental imagery. But there's still one thing missing...the piece that turns all of it from helpful into automatic.

That's what Episode 4 is all about.

CPR — Consistent Passionate Reaction is the most frequently asked question Bo and Shannon get from everyone who goes through the system. And there's a reason. It's the emotional glue that holds everything together. Without it, your trigger fires but your brain splits its attention between the target, worry, mechanics, and whatever your playing partner said two holes ago. With it, everything closes in on one direction. Locked in. Fully committed. Every single time.

In this episode Bo and Shannon finally go deep on CPR and then give you the second piece that every golfer desperately needs but almost nobody has ever been taught: the release routine. What you do after a bad shot determines the rest of your round more than the bad shot itself ever will.

Here's what you'll hear:

— What CPR actually is and why your nervous system needs an emotional target not just a physical one, to organize itself around for every single shot

— The different types of CPR, from Bo's bull seeing red and Shannon's miniature Conor McGregor to the sniper's calm for putting and how to find the one that fits your game naturally

— Why CPR is done during mental reps away from the course and becomes completely automatic on the course and the critical mistake most golfers make by trying to do it the wrong way around

— The three-step release routine: physical motion, focal point, and power talk statement and how it works exactly like your focus trigger, except it locks the door on the bad shot behind you

— What Ben Hogan did mentally after every bad shot, the mental wall he built so high he literally could not look back over it

— Tiger's ten-second rule , here it came from, how it kept him in green light state during his prime, and how it led directly to the 2005 Masters chip shot that became a Nike commercial

— Why complaining and negative self-talk after a bad shot are completely off limits and what Shannon says they actually do to your body coordination and sequencing

— Shannon's baseball breakdown — why the pitcher grabs dirt and why the batter takes off his glove — and what Major League Baseball has known about mental training that most golfers have never been told

— The power talk statements that work best right after a bad shot, flush it, next shot, lock in, W.I.N. (What's Important Now), I'm a one shot warrior and how to make them automatic before you ever need them

— Your homework: come up with your CPR, add it to your mental rep sessions.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

What if the difference between the round where you finally play free and the round where everything tightens up again comes down to one missing piece that almost nobody has ever taught you? What if you've already got the trigger? What if you've got the breathing? What if you got the imagery? But there's still one thing that's missing that turns all of it from helpful into automatic. That's what today is all about. Because if you've been listening the last few episodes, then you already know what we believe. Your best golf does not come from more clutter. It does not come from more overthinking. It does not come from standing over the ball with six swing thoughts and hoping somehow this one works out. It comes when you get simple enough, clear enough, and free enough to let your athleticism finally show up. That's why we call it caveman golf or cavegirl golf, which is sea target, seaball, hit ball. That's it. And that's also why this podcast is this. Hey, I'm Bo Watson.

SPEAKER_01 0:56

Hey guys, I'm Shannon Shusky, and we are on a mission to see 100,000 golfers achieve their new lifetime low round, not just once, but continually do it. And we're here to do that.

SPEAKER_00 1:07

Welcome to the One Round Away podcast, where we're going to explore how any golfer, yes, even you, can be just one round away from the best game of your life. Yeah, exactly what Shannon said. We want to be the kind of golfer who knows how to get back out there again and again, a golfer who knows how to perform when it matters, a golfer who knows how to recover when things go sideways, and a golfer who stops uh sabotaging themselves and start trusting what's already in there. And today we're going to give you the missing piece that brings everything together. So last week we gave you the trigger, we gave you how to do the breath, the kinesthetic mental imagery, and then CPR. Now, when I first learned this system from Shannon, and I when I went out in the second half of 2018 where I shot the six out of eight rounds under par, you know, there was still one thing that when Shannon was walking me through this system, I actually kind of got held up a little bit. And it was the CPR. It's actually probably the most frequently asked question that we get. And that's why we have dedicated most of an episode to covering the CPR. So those of you that are just now listening to this episode and you have not watched episode one, two, and three, I strongly encourage you to go back to episode one, two, and three and watch it in order. Because today is probably gonna sound like Chinese. No disrespect for our Chinese listeners, but those that speak English, that's what it's gonna sound like. And please do yourself a favor and go back and watch episode one, two, and three, especially episode three, then you'll understand more about why we're gonna spend some time on CPR. So that being said, let's jump in. Shannon, what is CPR?

SPEAKER_01 2:44

Here in the U.S., when we hear CPR, we know that it's something that we use to bring somebody back from death, giving them life. And so this is that it's something that's honestly that I feel like the Lord gave me years ago, that literally this is the key that it's the glue that puts all this stuff together. It means consistent, passionate reaction. And it's the emotional response that we have being intentional and the intensity to the target. Um, every single time that we step up to the ball, or you've heard us talk about doing mental reps. When we do mental reps, we have a trigger that we do, which is your uh a deep breath in and a physical motion, and then we apply CPR. That is the emotional intensity that we have to the target, and there's different ways that we can describe what that emotional intensity looks like. So then what happens is when we get out of the course, we have that we do our trigger, that CPR becomes automatic because we got all of our mental reps in behind, and then we're actually getting dialed in emotionally every single time toward our target, and both will just go ahead and go through some of the different types of CPR.

SPEAKER_00 4:04

First type of CPR I can explain like what mine is, and that's uh bull C in red. Another way I like to talk about it as a I played linebacker in high school. It's like when you see the ball carrier being a middle linebacker, you hit that gap and you want to lay him out. And so the bull in bull fighting, he's in a ring, and obviously there's just absolute so much noise, so much chaos going on in the arena. And the bull could care less about the weather, he could care less about how many people are there, he doesn't care what the stadium looks like, and he doesn't really care about the person other than the red flag that's waving, and that's where his attention is drawn to. So that bullsey in red is basically my intensity that I invoke as my CPR whenever I'm doing mental reps, you know, away from the course. And that's one thing I want to just again to reiterate here. Last episode we talked about how to do our system, which is psychomuscular training. That's essentially what we're laying out before you right now, which is you got your trigger, you got your CPR, you got your kinesthetic mental imagery. And the most important thing that you must understand, please listen right now, because this is critical. Because one of the most commonly, I would say, issues or errors that we see a lot in our community is that they take this and they go out to the course while when they're playing and they try to do it at the course. Okay. That is the equivalent of you going to your new puppy and saying sit the very first time. And you're not training him with treats.

SPEAKER_01 5:32

That's how they stare at you like you are a stranger and look confused.

SPEAKER_00 5:39

That's essentially what your body is doing because there has not been any neuropathway created. Again, you if you want to go deep on this neuroplasticity, so we're needing to train in the brain this new neural circuit, neural pathway to our body, so that when we do our trigger, when we consciously invoke CPR in our mental reps away from the course, then like Shannon said, we're making these mental deposits. So finally, after making all these consistent deposits away from the course, then when we go play, and typically it takes about a week or two for most of our clients, but when you when you've been consistent with your mental reps away from the course, but I promise you, what will happen is you will finally see that hyper focus that you are looking for each and every shot if you do your due diligence away from the course. That's the most critical thing that you must do. If you go out there and you just start trying to do, all right, I'm playing golf today, physically, you're at the course, you're not going to see any benefit or any change whatsoever than what you've already been accustomed to doing when you go play right now. It's only when you do the mental reps away from the course, like we like to say, train the dog within you that you'll finally start seeing the CPR kick in. So mine was bull C and Red. So what it looks like for me was again, I'll try to do my best to describe it here on the podcast for you guys listening. So if I'm doing a mental rep, my CPR Bull C and Red is right after I do my trigger. Okay. So let's just pretend I'm at hole one in the middle of the fairway, got a second shot, and I'm looking at the target, and I do another look. I just did a deep breath with a squeeze of my hands, and then I'm doing one last look at the target, but this time I'm staring down the target like a bull see in red. I am consciously invoking the CPR, this intensity that I am driving toward the target. And as a result of me then doing that and coming back, now I mentally see myself at the shot, and then I see the ideal ball flight. Okay. That's an example of doing a CPR rep away from the course. Shannon, you want to go ahead?

SPEAKER_01 7:48

Yeah, so there's two types of CPR that we like to recommend because obviously when you step up to hit a T shot, it's more of an aggressiveness type of an emotion when you're stepping up versus more of a calm emotion that would be like, for example, with putting. Another example for me with the aggressive style, what Bo was talking about, was almost like how a boxer is going into the ring, that intensity, that emotional aggressiveness that's going in. And obviously, what's the boxer looking at? His target, it's the face of the other person that he's looking at, right? So your target, which would be whatever you're going to, and you have to be very clear and very precise on that. Remember, aim small miss mall. That's the part where so many golfers fail when they come up to a wide open fairway, for example. There, there's no target, they're just swinging and hitting the ball. And that's what must obviously they mess up. So aim small misfall. And the same thing with the boxer, they have that aggressiveness toward the toward their target. For me in speed skating, that's what it was. I was more very aggressive, almost like I was getting ready to get in a fight with uh a miniature Connor Connor McGregor. If anybody knows or with the UFC, and Bo's laughing because he's heard this over and over again. That's what it was like for me. It was like I was getting ready to go into a boxing match with a miniature Connor McGregor, and I knew beyond three foot tall. Let's just say let's just be honest. And my preparation going into that fight would be there's no way he's gonna win because I'm so confident and then I can take him on. That's what I mean by that aggressive emotion, that uh intensity to the target. So those that's another one. Another one might be how a quarterback's looking for the receiver as he's going up for a pass, totally locked in on a boom, but that split second. And that's that more of aggressiveness toward the target, that that high determination, that emotional, that excited determination, that energize that you're feeling toward the target. Some even use that as like a magnet, right? A magnet toward the flag, a magnet to the target, whatever part that you're focused on. Bud, do you have another example by chance of what an aggressiveness?

SPEAKER_00 10:13

Yeah, I do. And before I get there, I just feel Holy Spirit prompting us because for those of you that are Christians, one of the things that just came up so powerfully as Shannon was describing the scene of boxing a miniature Conor McGregor. A lot of times we like to think of the enemy as being almost like same level skill-wise. And it's the farthest thing from the truth. See, when you're a believer and you walk in your identity in Christ, you're fighting from a place of victory, not from a place of a victim or even from a place of defeat. Like it's already been done. Like he said, it's finished. Therefore, like we've been given this identity and um authority that now the words that you speak are so much more powerful than you realize. And I just want to share that really quick. And Shannon, you can echo that before I get to the last one, which is the quiet determination.

SPEAKER_01 11:05

I'm gonna be brutally honest for a second. The way I like to look at it, Bo just recently had another child. And I'm gonna take this aggressiveness to a whole nother level. He's a parent. If he sees anybody messing with his child, do you think he's gonna be very quiet and calm? Absolutely not. He's gonna go in with a high aggressiveness. So that is another type of thing that you can use going toward your target, that type of aggressiveness, so to speak, going to there. But anyway, this getting back to the calm aggressiveness, so to speak. Sorry, we're gonna shift gears again. So the calm aggressiveness would be kind of like a sniper's calm. We like to call it a sniper's calm when a sniper is out on the shooting range and there might be moving targets. That's a sniper's calm, totally locked in, not moved by anything else. He's totally focused on the target, that is it. And then if they miss, that's they're not taking negativity because that's one of the things that a sniper will say when they miss a target, negativity will slow them down. Think about that. Does negativity slow you down on the golf course when you have a bad shot or you miss your target? Here's the thing if you understand that golf is a game of mistakes, it makes it a lot easier because golf is a game of mistakes. So when it comes to missing your target, you think of negativity like a sniper slows you down, you just keep getting locked in. And that is another way for putting, for example, that we like to use of a sniper's cum going into your target. It's like an aggressive calmness that's going into your target.

SPEAKER_00 12:52

Yeah, definitely. And so as you can see, there's a quite a few like different types of CPRs. Another CPR that we've seen people use is excitement. That's an intention that you can drive toward your target. And another type is what I mentioned just a moment ago, which is quiet determination. And this one is kind of you could use it for a majority of all your shots. And think of it like a surgeon where you're totally focused, you're completely committed, you're not aggressive, not passive, just certain. And there's a quiet certainty that you're driving towards your target. And so that's another one that you can implement. And one thing that you know we will say is that sometimes people will have a CPR that can work for full swing, short game, and putting. But then you may have two different types. One that works for full swing, and then you have another one that's more for putting, kind of like what Shannon was talking about, like a sniper's call might be for putting, or it could be the quiet determination that you're using for your short game. You know, it's one of those things that again we get the most frequently asked questions about. But one thing I'll just help you guys with is this right here. It's okay to not get it right the first time. You need to experiment. There's a lot of trial and error. Sometimes people can get it right away. But if you feel like it's just not working, it doesn't fit right in a routine, try a different one and see if that resonates. There's a lot of different ones you can try, but the biggest thing that you absolutely must have is that there is an intensity that you are consciously invoking towards your target. And this is where we bring it all together. The reason why it's so critical that you have that, especially in your mental reps, is that you're training your brain to respond to your custom trigger. So that when you're playing and when you do your trigger only, remember when we're playing, we are not doing CPR when we're actually playing. Because if you've done enough of the mental reps away from the course, the training the dog within you, that CPR intensity becomes automatic. That's again going back to the original study, Pavlov's dogs, we talked about over the last couple episodes. That's when the dog would have the bell or the light sound, he gets all excited and salivates. That's the emotional response that he has due to the reward of the food coming out. Okay. And that's essentially why our system is a blend of the classical conditioning and operating conditioning, because right after we do our CPR, that's when we bring our eyes back and we see a mental imagery of our really good shot. Okay. So, Shannon, you want to add anything to that?

SPEAKER_01 15:30

Yeah, this is why CPR is so critical because your nervous system needs a target to organize itself around. Okay, when you have a clear emotional charge intention toward where you want the ball to go, your brain focuses all of its available resources in that direction. When you don't have that intention, on the other hand, is when you're technically ready but emotionally neutral. This is why we use CPR. Okay, your brain splits its attention, some of it goes toward the target, and some of it goes to worry, self-doubt, some of it goes to like your mechanics, your golf swing, which will sabotage your game, by the way. And some of it goes to your playing partner um said on the last hole, something that they said, or anything like that. So your CPR is what closes that split, so to speak. It pulls everything together and points it all to the target, and boom, one direction, you're clear, you're totally committed, you're locked in, and that's what you want to do with mostly every single time you get a mental rep in, that is why CPR is so powerful. 1000%.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

So, again, to bring it all together and to summarize everything that we have talked about in terms of the foundation of psychedomescu training, you remember when we're doing a mental rep away from the course, the biggest thing that we must have is obviously the scene of wherever the hole that we're playing. So that's the basics of kinesthetic mental imagery. And then when you're coming up and playing a shot, let's say it's like hole one at your home course, you're on the T-Box, you've got your whole total image, everything's already there. And then you see yourself immediately over the ball, and now you're actually playing, but this is a mental rep. Do whatever you normally do, like a couple looks, however way you would do it. Some people ha have their trigger just before, right when they're addressing the ball. The trigger is gonna differ depending on like when people do it. What we ideally want to see is as close as pop as close as possible to the ball, um, if you can, but there is some leeway here. We've had some clients do it as immediately as they step over the line from the think visualization box into the play box. But the more that you can have it closer to the ball, the better it's gonna perform, and there's just less time for thoughts to creep in. But again, the reason why CPR is so powerful is a lot of times your CPR will override a lot of those kind of things that can creep into the equation. So, again, to show you this, you're looking one or two times, you're doing your trigger, mine's a deep breath with a squeeze, and then I'm doing one last look and I'm doing the CPR consciously. For somebody else, it might be the quiet determination. So they're looking and they're invoking that quiet determination, the surgeons look at their target. Whatever your CPR is, you just need to make sure that you're doing it simultaneously as close as possible to your trigger. So that way, when you've done enough mental reps and you've played a lot of times away from the course, and you've gotten enough mental reps under your belt to where you've done the CPR over and over again with your trigger, then what's going to happen is when you go play physically, now you're playing and you're actually in an actual round. Then when you go through your normal routine and then you're stepping into the play box, and then you do your trigger, CPR should be automatic. You're not thinking about it. It should be automated at that point. And that's where you should start seeing and actually feeling this intensity, this hyper focus that we're talking about. Shannon, you got anything to add to that?

SPEAKER_01 19:17

Yeah, absolutely. And some of you might be like, you you may have missed the last episode that we did. I want to encourage you, go back. That is the absolute foundation. Go back and watch that because we're clearing up CPR. We wanted to because we have most of our clients. That is the biggest question they have. Because why? Because what I said before, it's the clue that sticks it together. We because we mentioned trigger CPR and mental imagery, what all that is. We're putting that together. We just wanted to go into a deeper dive and hopefully clear up some possible questions about CPR, how to apply it and do it. And again, just to qualify what a mental rep is, it's no longer than 20 seconds, literally. It's less than that. Obviously, it's five seconds to do it. In the beginning, you your mental rep may take longer because you're not used to doing it. Okay. That's it. Mental imagery can be, you can get better when you're training with mental imagery and get better and get more clearer each time that you do it. But that is the key, is you got to do it. Is it hard work? No, it's not hard work, it's just putting in the work and setting time aside and doing it. And each mental rep that you do, you always do a physical trigger. You're not doing mental, a mental rep of your trigger. You're physically doing the trigger. And we talked about that. It might be a squeeze of the hand, the finger, anything like that. You're doing that, you're taking the deep breath in, then you're invoking the CPR every single time, and then you're doing the mental rep. Remember, we talked about the seven senses involved. So this is just a brief recap of what all that is. The seven senses, what is that? It's your five regular senses. Now, taste and smell is not as important as all the other senses because we're not tasting, or and sometimes we're we're not smelling unless it's cut and grass, fresh cut grass or something like that. There's really not a smell that's going on. But all your five senses invoke invoked. I just wanted to clear that up.

SPEAKER_00 21:16

Hello to clear that up, but then unless you're a plan partner, just pass gas right beside you.

SPEAKER_01 21:21

Easy partner, easy, easy, easy, easy. We want to stay G-rated. No, I just get just kidding. That's hilarious. Yeah, I had to do it. And then the last two is the emotional, and that's what we're talking about today. We wanted to focus on the emotional response that you have to the target, whether aggressive or calm toward the target. And then the last the seventh and tenth is the physical feeling of your swing. So you're really getting that out there.

SPEAKER_00 21:51

Yeah, and then before we switch gears, just one last thing on the CPR. Again, if you go back to the original study, Pablo's dogs, remember the dog has no. Emotional response to the trigger. That's why it's critical that you have the CPR in the equation. Because that is the one thing that's going to get you that hyper focus that we were just talking about. So great job, Shann re-summarizing all that. And so just to switch gears, because one of the questions we get all the time, Shannon, I know we laugh about this a lot. Hey, people will come in our system and they'll say, look, it works. You know, it works amazing until I hit a bad shot. The reality is we're all gonna hit bad shots. My goodness, like Tiger Woods in his prime, he hit bad shots. My goodness, look at number one, Scotty Shuffle right now. He's got his fair share of bad shots, right? Golf's an uncertain game. We know that, right? So what do we do? How do we like recover from that? And so Shannon actually teased on the answer in episode one. We call it the release routine or the release trigger. Now we're gonna actually talk about it right now. So, Shannon, what should we do after a bad shot?

SPEAKER_01 22:57

Wash it, man. Send it to the toilet. It's time to get rid of it. That's it, right? Is it that simple? No, but we're gonna so here's a beautiful thing about release. So just like we talked about a trigger when it comes to mental imagery, where you trigger to get into a highly focused state, you we also want to have a trigger to be able to release something that just happened. So we definitely need a trigger, and we need to have a so we have a focus routine, right? And then we need to have a release routine as well. And I want to clarify this. Some of you may have watched or big fans of Major League Baseball. You may not be a fan of Major League Baseball. Here's the beautiful thing about Major League Baseball. They have highly accepted mental training, more so than I would even say than most sports. They've highly do it. Watch when a pitcher has a bad pitch, maybe just a bad pitch. Or the batter knocks a home run. Have you ever watched what a pitcher does? A lot of times he'll go grab dirt and then throw it. Why in the world is he doing that? Do you think he do you think he's trying to fix his hand? No, he's not fixing his hand. He's doing a release routine. What do you have you ever watched a batter? What does a batter do when he strikes? Why does he step out of the batter's box, put the bat under his arm, and take off his glove? Do you think his glove actually got looser? Absolutely not. He's doing a release routine, and you'll see a lot of them, they'll look at the right side, they're having a focal point, and that there's he's doing it and he's looking at there. And sometimes you'll read their list because you can't see it. You might say flush, you might say release. So they're all doing their release routines. So Bo and I, in our system, we talk about having a in the think visualization box, okay? And then you go into the play box and then release box. We add a release box to that. We because we want you to have a release routine. The reason why I shared all that, very similar to what you do with your trigger, you're doing to get highly focused. We want you to have a physical motion and a deep breath, generally a deep breath going in, deep that is very loud, and that's part of the trigger. So you're doing two. We need to have a release routine, and that is just the start of the routine is a deep breath and a physical motion. The physical motion can be several different things. It could be like what the batter did in the major leagues. He took off his glove. You if you play with the glove, you take off your glove. That is a physical action. You might take your hat off and then put it back on. The reason why we do this is we want you to go from Clark Kent to Superman to release the shot. It could be wiping off your hands, okay, as a part of it. It could be wiping your hand on your towel. It could be imitating trash gears, like you're throwing a trash away. Okay, that is a physical motion. Bo, can you think of anything else?

SPEAKER_00 26:22

Not really, other than just kind of undoing the glove is a very popular one that a lot of our players like to use. And sometimes they'll have things written on their glove to remind them of their power talk that they actually say when they're doing a release routine.

SPEAKER_01 26:34

Absolutely. Yeah, and that's good. And I'm glad because we I think we covered most of the stuff when it comes to the physical aspect, the physical part of the trigger of your release routine. Now, the second part of it is actually having a focal point. What would be your focal point be? For me, a lot of times you may be wearing a watch, for example, and you're doing this, let's say the release trigger of undoing your glove, and but you're taking your focal point looking at your watch, just using that meaning, meaning it's time to get back to the present moment, release that shot, get back to the present moment. It could be looking at the strap on your glove, but having a focal point that's there. And so that is all you're doing. It's like you're teaching yourself to get refocused by having a focal point. And then the third step is having a power talk statement. What would the what would a power talk statement bow? What would be some of the power talk statements that would be simple that they could use?

SPEAKER_00 27:31

Yeah, it could be just flush it, next shot, when, and that's an acronym, what's important now, and it's that next shot. There's a lot of different things. You could also say green light, which is just a reminder, and we'll teach on the signal lights later in the podcast. So many different types, and there's no limit to whatever power talk statement you want to use. And we'll eventually have an episode on the power talk and all those different things. We'll give you a lot of different ideas, but there's so many that you can just say. Very simple.

SPEAKER_01 28:01

Yeah, very simple. And just I want to reiterate what both said this is so powerful for you. You're locking the door behind you. That is why we do a power talk statement. Like you've opened up the door because of a bad shot, right? So then how do you shut the door and lock it? This is how you lock that door, and you're not even looking behind you no more. You're done. Is your power talk statement? Flush it, trash it, release it. And it's power talk. The next shot is the best. I'm a one-shot warrior, for example. Make that a part of every shot. I'm a one-shot warrior. Lock in. That's my favorite. I actually have that written on my bike, on the handlebars of my bike. Lock in is a power talk statement. And then the next shot, clear, it's gone. Flush it. Okay, we're done with it. We're moving on. But remember, so you have your trigger, your deep breath, and your physical motion, whatever that might be, uh flushing, and then you had your focal point. You're looking at your watch, and then you're doing your power talk statement, whether that be flush it, next shot, lock in, win, which is what's important now. It's an acronym. And then Bo, what's the lat the very last thing that they do?

SPEAKER_00 29:19

Next shot.

SPEAKER_01 29:21

That's right. If y'all could have seen him, we're actually videotape of this, and Bo is like a daring headlight. It's the next shot. Here's the key. It's how you're carrying yourself, right? You do mental imagery of your next shot, and that's it. Just do an imagery of your next shot. You but here's the thing it's how you're carrying yourself. You what does your body language look like? Or I'm gonna briefly touch on that. Your body language will speak volumes to how you are confidently walking, big body language. You're not slumped over. Man, that was a bad shot, and then you do a release, and then you stay slumped over. No, you're what you do that you keep your head up, big body language, and you're moving that into it. So that is basically the last step is you're going into the next shot.

SPEAKER_00 30:06

That's it. Yeah. So, guys, what we just covered is the release routine, and the reason why this is so critical is absolutely because it's because the game's best did it. What I mean by that, Ben Hogan, one of the things that he did was every shot, or even a really bad shot, he would visualize this massive wall behind him, meaning that it was so high that when he had the temptation to dwell or look back on what happened or think about what took place, he couldn't see over the wall. And so it was this mental imagery of this massive wall that allowed him to stay present. Tiger. You guys have heard this, the 10-step rule. I'm pretty sure it was actually given to him from his mom, if I'm not mistaken. And it was a 10-second rule, and it was because he had such a bad attitude that his mom got onto him and it was basically like, Look, Tiger, you can get mad, but you got 10 seconds and you gotta get past it. My goodness, has that served him tremendously well over the course of his career? Because if we're gonna be honest, if we watch Tiger over the course of his prime, he hit a lot of bad shots, but he also was amazing at recovery shots, and that's why he's got a career highlight rule of some of the most amazing recovery shots and bounce back shots. It's because the only way that he could get to that place and be able to do that is he had to be mentally in a better state. I'll give you a perfect example. I think it was 2005 Masters that he won. But as the Masters were on hole 16, everybody knows this, Sunday final round pin location, you do not go long. Well, sure enough, Tiger goes long. Well, the next shot becomes a Nike commercial, and it was the incredible chip-in that he ends up making. The only way that he could have pulled that off is that he had to be mentally back in a green light state. And one of the best ways that he did that was, of course, he applied his 10-second rule. So, release routine. If you don't have one, add it. Shout out to PN Nielsen and Lynn Marriott and the higher near the think visualization box and play box. But the one thing that you desperately need is a release box. And so make sure you get that's part of your homework this week. Yeah. Shannon, anything else you want to have?

SPEAKER_01 32:24

Yeah, and I just man, I just had this thing that just went off inside of me, Bo, when you're talking about the 10 second or the 10 step things. If you're the one that's doing this, we talk E plus R equals O, the event that happens, the response that goes on, and then your outcome vitality. It's how you respond to the event. Here's the thing: don't make your response somebody else's event. Don't do that. The reason why I'm saying this is because Tiger during that time, his prime years ago, you never seen him complaining. He wasn't complaining. That was not in his response, was complaining. It wasn't negative self-talk either. You need to steer as far away from those two things after a bad shot. You want to look at that as emergency, Will Robinson, emergency. We're gonna run from this. No complaining and no negative self-talk. Why? Because every time you do negative self-talk, it is a mental rep and you're reinforcing negative behavior. When you do complaining, you're doing that as well. I'm not gonna get in deep on that because we're gonna have episodes in the near future that talk about negative self-talk and the power of it, what it does to your body, the sequencing, and it affects your coordination and stuff like that. Complaining, what that does. That is not in your 10-second madness, okay? You're not even incorporating that. That is a no-touch, no going in that direction because it reinforces every time bad behavior and it just gets worse. And the Bible even talks about you reap what you sow, what happens is you're sowing that, you're gonna continually reap that, and it's gonna get worse and worse. So I would just wanted to share that about that release portion of it. That if you're gonna get mad, but don't complain and don't use negative self-talk, boom, that is off limits. We no longer do that, you no longer do that, you need to believe that you no longer do that, and if you are doing it, you need to let this be a mental alarm clock going big time in your brain to never do that again. And if you are doing it, fight it. Man, I'm not gonna do that anymore. And let that be an alarm clock, just goes off.

SPEAKER_00 34:36

Got to move in that new identity, gotta be a caveman golfer or a caveman golfer. Yep. All right, so this week, your homework, you got your trigger. We talked about that. And if you haven't already gotten your CPR, take this week and come up with that, and then spend some time getting some rental reps in where you start putting this stuff together and uh start training. That's the key. Remember, we got to train that dog within you away from the course.

SPEAKER_01 34:58

I want to I'm glad you said that because we didn't say this, and man, we would have totally left them out to dry when it comes to the release routine. You need to practice your release routine. When you're in the driving range, do your release routine. Make it because you want it to be an automatic thing. You don't want it to be something that you have to think about over and over again. Wait, what was that? What you know, and then all of a sudden you're not doing it. Why? Because you had to practice it. You had to put in the mental reps to do it. This is how you get a mental rep in. You go to the driving range, and you like if you hit a shot that's not the greatest shot, do your release. Come up with a release routine, boom, right then and there, every single time. You got to do it. If you're not putting those deposits in, you're not gonna get that withdrawal in the course when it matters the most, when you need that release routine. Make sure that you're practicing, whether it be it, whether it be at home in in your your golf lab, so to speak, you know what I mean? Or if you're y'all should have seen, I'm sorry, y'all should have seen Bo's response golf lab when I said that because I threw him a curveball. I threw all y'all a curveball. If you have a simulator, okay. Just saying, if you have a simulator, practice it there, practice it at the driving range, get those reps in so then when you get on the course, it's more automatic. I need to release this shot, I need to move on and shut the door behind you as well. Definitely.

SPEAKER_00 36:21

Awesome. So, guys, that is gonna wrap up the teaching part of it. And so, for some of you that are like, man, this is really deep. I want to learn more. There's a couple ways that you can learn more about what we're teaching. Uh, the first one is our book. You can get a free copy if you're in the U.S. Uh, you just pay shipping. Um, so if you're in the U.S., you can get it directly through our website, endazone secrets.com. Uh, if you're international, just go on Amazon, it should be available in your country. And then the second way is if you want to work with us more closely and you would like to ask questions and be able to get help live and then have accountability and then even a score guarantee. That's one of the unique things about working with us is not only are we working through all this stuff with you, but we're also like getting you to your ultimate goal. And that's something that we can help you with as well. You can just schedule a free call by going to AmazonSecrets.com slash free call, and then you can just answer a few questions and jump on a call with either myself or our team. And then the last thing is find out what your mental your type is. And you can do that by going to the endzonsecrets.com slash assessment. Again, all these links are posted in the show notes. That being said, remember you're just one round away. And with that said, we'll see you guys next week.