Signal Lights: The GPS Your Mental Game Has Been Missing

 You've felt it before. Standing over a shot and knowing before you swung that it wasn't going to be good. And you've felt the opposite. Walking up to a ball with complete quiet in your mind, total commitment, and you just knew. 

Those aren't random experiences. Those are two completely different brain states. The ability to recognize which one you're in and do something about it is what separates consistent performers from golfers stuck shooting the same scores. 

In Episode 7 Bo and Shannon introduce the Signal Light system, adapted from peak performance coach Brian Cain, giving you a real-time GPS for your mental game. Green light. Yellow light. Red light. Each one tells you exactly what to do next. 

Here's what you'll hear in this episode: 

— How Rory and Scotty put emotional control on display at the Masters and what it means for your game 

— The neuroscience research showing green light gives you 80 to 100 percent chance of peak performance, yellow drops you to 40 percent, and red light puts you at just 5 percent 

— Dr. Izzy Justice's finding from scanning 15,000 golfers on the single fastest way into red light 

— Why most golfers show up to the first tee already in yellow light before hitting a single shot 

— The free Signal Lights worksheet in the show notes for a live self-assessment on the course 

— A tease of Episode 8 and the B.A.L.L. reset 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Have you ever stood over a golf shot and known before you even swung that it wasn't going to be good? Like something in your body told you the moment that you addressed the ball that this one was already in trouble? And have you had the opposite experience where you walked up to a shot and you just knew like you couldn't miss, the club felt different, your mind was completely quiet, and you were just going to hit it. Those two experiences are not luck. They're not talent, and they are not your swing. Those are two completely different brain states. And what separates the golfers who perform consistently from the ones who are stuck shooting the same scores is one thing. The ability to recognize which state they're in, and the ability to do something about it. Today, we're going to give you a system that changes everything about how you manage your own game from the inside out. What if your best round of golf wasn't yours away? What if you were just one round away? Welcome to the One Round Away Podcast, where our mission is simple to help a hundred thousand golfers shoot their new lifetime low round. Not just once by accident, but to become the kind of golfer who knows how to perform when it matters most. Hey, I'm Bo Watson.

SPEAKER_01 1:04

I'm Shannon Shusky, a golfer who plays with freedom, a golfer who knows how to recover from bad shots and even recover from good ones, which we've mentioned that on the previous episodes, because there's an emotional attachment that actually takes place even with the good shots, because there is that emotional detachment that happens when we're playing really well. And all of a sudden, we're mentally sabotaging our own game, falling into a spiral of boggies, a golfer who stops sabotaging themselves and starts trusting what's already in there.

SPEAKER_00 1:39

Absolutely. And Shannon, that's why we call it Caveman golf, which is C target, C ball, hit ball. It's simple, it's instinctive, and it's free. That's how your best golf has always happened. And guys, if you have not yet heard episode six, I would strongly suggest that you go back and listen to John Norvell's story. What John did to go from the mid-80s to averaging 75 in eight weeks with like almost no physical practice is the foundation of everything that we have taught over the last four episodes in the very beginning. And then again, what we're going to expand on today. Again, if you have not gone back and listened to John's story, strongly suggest that you go back here and listen to it. All right, so by the end of this episode, you're going to have a GPS for your own mental game.

SPEAKER_01 2:19

All right, let's go. One of the most important things that happened with John Norville during his eight weeks in the program was a shift in awareness. I noticed it. John's language has changed. The way he described difficult shots, that even changed. The way he approached challenging situations, that changed. That didn't happen by accident. It happened because John learned to recognize the state his brain was in and discover he had to choice about what to do next. In our book, In the Zone Secrets, and even throughout our program, we teach what we call signal light system. The nervous system is operating from three states at any given moment on the golf course. You got a green light state, a yellow light state, and a red light state. And just like a traffic light, each one tells exactly what to do. And green light, you execute, obviously. Yellow light, you pause, you got to do a reset. And we talked about that in the previous episode, like how to do a reset. Red light, full stop, recover, the sirens are going above. And there's your mental alarm clock, and you got to stop. And it sounds simple to its core, but the power is in the detail in understanding exactly what each state feels like in your body, exactly how to recognize it, and exactly what to do in the moment when it shows up.

SPEAKER_00 3:35

Yeah, and Shannon, before we go into each state, one thing I just want to make sure all of you understand this system is not about eliminating pressure. It's not about becoming emotionally flat on the golf course. You're going to feel nerves. Like that's a normal part, right? And you're going to feel frustration after a bad shot. Your heart rate will climb on important putts. The goal is not to stop feeling those things. The goal is to recognize what they actually mean. We have a protocol for what to do next. That is entirely different from a golfer who gets swallowed up by pressure and a golfer who performs in it. It's not the absence of feeling, it's what they do with it. Let's jump right into what these states are. One thing I just want to let all of you guys know this is a system that Shannon he adopted this from his mentor, Brian Kane. And he's one of the absolute best in the baseball world and a few other things with UFC. And so it's a really cool system that we adopted from him and to transition it into the golf space. I really believe that once you guys understand this training that we're about to give you guys, that's going to change your game. Shannon, dive in, man.

SPEAKER_01 4:41

So why mental performance wins? Everyone here can hit great shots. Elite golf is decided by what happens under pressure. We know that. But not everyone can recover fast. Mechanics matter, but mental control decides consistency. Tournaments reward emotional control. The best players recover faster after mistakes. And both I just want to shift years a little bit and go slightly different route. What's some of the things, because we just had the Masters tournament that took place, and it that's obvious. That very last statement that I said, tournaments reward emotional control. The best players recover faster after mistakes. I think that was obvious with how Roy McElroy controlled himself.

SPEAKER_00 5:21

Oh, a thousand percent. You can look at both players, Roy and Scotty Shuffler. If you look at Scotty, look at his Friday round, for an example. I believe he shot plus two and he was even par at the end of the second round. And then you got Roy McElroy on the other side of the coin, where he's way ahead of everybody at 12 under and six shots clear, I think, of second place going into the weekend. And at that point in time, he had one of the largest leads after 36 holes in Masters history. And what's so interesting is you look at both players, they're going into the weekend. Scotty plays amazing on Saturday and shot seven under, and could have been even lower than that, which is crazy to think about. And then you got Rory, who struggled a little bit. Now going into Sunday, the top of the leaderboard is really tight. What's so interesting is again, the best players in the world are the ones who can bounce back after mistakes, and we saw that on display Sunday. Rory at one point was three over, drops from I think 12 under to nine under, and then he recovers and plays some amazing golf down the stretch and then ends up winning the tournament. But if you look at Scotty, Scotty, I want to point him out because most players on tour, after that second round, a lot of them would have been checked out to a degree because my goodness, now you're 12 shots back over two rounds going through the weekend. There's just no way. But Scotty just has this attitude of just not giving up. And I think what's so fascinating to me is he's all in on the process. And this is something we'll teach in a later episode. But since we're talking about the masters, I think I want to share something that we talk about in our training and when we work with our college teams and then even the tour players. One of the things I always like to share is this important press conference that Scotty did last year. One of the press conferences, he shared the story about how Tiger really uh had an effect on him. And I can't remember which year exactly that he got paired with Tiger in the final round on a Sunday, but this is like back in 2018, I believe. One of those years, obviously, both of them, they're way out. There's no chance of them to win. I don't think even if they shot 59, I don't think they were gonna win. But what Scotty said is that on the back nine, he said, and keep in mind, this is 2025 that Scotty's making these comments, okay? He said, I've never seen any player hit the kind of shots and it was dialed in as far as focus on that back nine, than any other time. And and this is also including Scotty in the mix, who's already also won two masters, by the way. And he said, the thing that really moved him was just the level of focus and intention that he had for every single shot that he played on that back nine. It moved him so much that he made it his mission to not take a shot off. And if we're all honest, regardless of what level of play, it is really hard to have the level of focus and intent for every single shot. If we're gonna be truly honest and transparent with ourselves, guys, how many times have we played around and we just go through the motions with our shots? And again, this is what we're gonna talk about here in a second with Signalites, but that was one of the things that he made a mission, Scotty, for the next few years that he would make it to where he just does not take a shot off. And I really firmly believe that is why he was able to go from being at even par to then being in a mix and almost going into a playoff with Roy McElroy on Sunday, because he makes it about the process, not so much about the score outcome. And that right there is the ticket to playing some really good golf.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

Absolutely, 100%. And if you look at it, that was the grind that really got Scotty dialed in, was because think about it, could he have been comfortable sitting in seventh place or 10th place? No, he wasn't necessarily comfortable. He wasn't on auto drive, so to speak, when he was playing. And so he didn't take those shots off. That's what caused that amazing jump that he took place from that to even getting in second and being in contention of possibly like what Bo's talking about, maybe playing some playoff holes. But again, that's the game changer of being able to recognize the states that you're in, and that's what's going to bring this whole thing together, is we need to be able to recognize our signal lights. When we say signal lights, it makes it easier to understand what state that your body is in. For example, when you're in a red light state, you've already lost control. But when you're in a green light state, you're in total control. You're giving yourself the best opportunity for performance for you to be able to form. But then when you start moving into a yellow light state, that is when you start losing control, you are starting to lose the mentality that is conducive to be able to have peak performance. But then when you shift into the red light state, you are totally out of control and it's reflecting in your performance. And here's the thing your body's not going to be able to react to be able to form at its best when you're in a red light state.

SPEAKER_00 10:34

Yeah, definitely. And I think, Shannon, one of the things that I think will really help a lot of you guys is understanding like what are the things that you can control and what you can't control. And I'll be honest, if you can grasp this part right here, just bring awareness to like the things that you can or can't control, it just I think from an emotional standpoint, but also a performance state, you will be able to put yourself in position to play some really good golf. What I mean by that, when you understand first and foremost, golf is an uncertain game, and understand that there's no real such thing as consistency in the game of golf, because if that was true, then Tiger Woods in his prime could be on a track man and hit 20 shots on track man with the exact same face angle and club path and dynamic launch angle and spin rate and carry distance and direction and shot shape. You're not gonna get every single one of them at the absolute exact for all 20 shots. So, what does that mean? It's inconsistent. When you look at the game of golf, it's an uncertain game, it's a game of mistakes. I'm telling you, that right there has helped so many of our clients over the years. Like we took one guy who, in my opinion, is the absolute worst mental head case that we have ever seen or worked with, and I've seen a lot over my years in the game of golf. That one thing alone helped him overcome the failures of working with, I think, four other sport psychologists and one other mental coach. And they're all phenomenal at what they do. Don't get me wrong. Sometimes we just need one little thing that can finally get them to break through. And it was that right there, that statement, that when we made that statement to him, it literally allowed him to detach emotionally from the score outcome and get him to focus on the things that truly matter in a game of golf. Now there's no emotional attachment to like when good shots happen, or even more specifically, bad shots happen, there's no self-sabotage taking place because he understands that, hey, now, just because I hit a bad shot, it doesn't define me. That right there is huge. And so let's talk about this for a second. What are the things that you cannot control? All right, listen very carefully. You cannot control the weather. You can't control if there's wind, there's rain, there's storm delays, if it's really cold or if it's hot. You're not gonna be able to control your competitors, the pairing sheet, the times that you're teeing off at, the pace of play of groups in front of you. You're not gonna also control the external factors, such as maybe there's dogs barking in a backyard near the tea box you're about to tee off, or if you got spectators talking, or you got your competitors, we've all seen that before, right? You got the competitor that's over there making a bunch of noise, like fiddling through his bag, and you're like, goodness gracious, this guy is so annoying. We've done it. Just being fully honest here. You know, you're not gonna be able to control the bad bounces. Let's say you hit a great shot and you get the bad bounce off a sprinklehead, it goes into a hazard, right? Or the course conditions, or the terrible lies that you get. What about when you feel terrible on the day of playing? All I think everybody may remember Michael Jordan's flu game, right? If you haven't, go search that. It's a phenomenal story and amazing what he did. He gave it his all while in play, but then when it was a timeout, his teammates had to like literally hold him in the huddle. Then he control what the media says.

SPEAKER_01 13:55

Yeah, I just want to pop in here. You can't control your performance. Think about that for a second. We think that we can. Oh, we think we can control our score and all that. We can't control any of that stuff. But what we're sharing is going to help you to really get dialed in to where uh you will be able to give yourself to your best chance to perform your best when it matters most. Sorry about that. I was just Bo that was just like keep going off. It was like uh it was like yelling inside my head. We think that we can control our performance. But Bo just talked about just that a few minutes ago about golf is a game of mistakes. We can't even control that. But if we can control ourselves, we're given our best way to be able to perform when it matters most.

SPEAKER_00 14:41

Yeah, I'm gonna make some comments on that, Shannon. So I just want to say these last two things because we can't control the media, we can't control our maybe our equipment, and then even life or situations outside of golf that are beyond our control. But Shannon's exactly right. We cannot control our performance. I want you guys to listen to this very carefully because you may be arguing or pushing back on this. I'm gonna prove it right here. You ready? Tiger in his prime in a tournament over the course of his PGA tour career, he has not shot 54. I don't believe there is a single tour player that has shot 54. Because if we could control our score, then Scotty and Tiger in their primes would go out and put 54 on their scorecard every round they play. I mean, is that not truly the perfection in the game of golf? My goodness, look at Vision 54. I love what they do. But that's the dream round. That would be the perfect round that everybody would agree on is that you go out there and you shoot a perfect 54. But the reality is we don't see that. So what does that prove? It means that we cannot control our score or our performance. And then what Shannon said just a moment ago, it's about what can you control? All right, so you ready for this list? Here you go. What can you control? You can control your pre-shot routine, you can control your visualization, you can control your commitment to your shot, you can control the execution of the shot, your behaviors, your body language, your focus, your breath, your routine, your response, your preparation, your physical conditioning, your response to events, course management, your palate arc, your nutrition hydration, and then your attitude and effort. Those are all things that are within your control. Shannon.

SPEAKER_01 16:19

Absolutely. That reminds me, speaking of Roy McElroy, this was years ago. He was in an interview and it reminded me, and he actually said this, and I love it. And he goes, one thing, one thing that I've been working on, he said, I've been working on my attitude. And you're like, and everybody's glued in and pause, and what's he gonna say next? He goes, Look, I can't let my golf affect my attitude. I gotta let my attitude affect my golf. It's that you can control your out your attitude. And obviously, when you control your attitude, it also helps your attitude as far as like how high up and how high you're gonna be able to perform. I wanted to share that too, because that's in a very important thing because we can't control that. We want to let our attitude work on our golf game, not have our golf game affect our attitude.

SPEAKER_00 17:06

Thousand percent. All right, Shannon. They're all on the edge of their seats. So they're like, all right, what are these signal lights that you're talking about? Let's expand on it. You want to talk about what the green light is?

SPEAKER_01 17:15

Yeah, and since I talked about attitude, I also want to share this. There is also an emotional aspect that can bring us into a red light and a yellow light and a green light state. For example, when you're in a green light state, you have you're more positive, you're confident, you're specific, you're assertive, your thoughts and feelings are diff, and you're it's actually motivating you and pushing you forward. But when you're in a yellow light emotion, we need to understand that and recognize our emotional state, what it is. You're hopeful, but yet you're uncertain. You're very vague in your thinking, you're timid in your thoughts and your feelings, and so on and so forth. But then when you're in a red light state, you're more negative, your thoughts are negative, you feel dejected, apathetic, and you're having more destructive thoughts and feelings. So that those are like emotional states. Okay, so what is a green light state? What are the areas that we need to focus on? What is your body language like? What does that look like? What does your focus look like? What does your self-talk look like? What are your physical feelings, the nerves that might be there, the heart rate, those are things that we critique. What area of green light, yellow light, and red light state that we're in a green light state? You're more of a calm body. Your movement of your body is more fluid. You have a clear target focus. You're confident. Your self-talk is more useful and is more strategic. There's confidence that's behind your self-talk. You're totally committed to the shot. Thoughts are clear and are more organized. Your breathing is steady, rhythmic. In other words, you're not shallow breathing. You're just steady, your mind and body is working together. The most efficient place to be able to compete, that is when you're in the green light state.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

And Shan, talk about what was that study? Was it out of Harvard when they came out of the study talking about the coordination? If you're in a green light state, you're what 80% uh being able to perform to your true ability.

SPEAKER_01 19:20

Yeah, absolutely. When you're actually in a green light state, yeah, you're at an 80% more likely of a chance. You're calm, you're focused, you're confident, you're resilient, empowered, relaxed, delighted, happy, just so many things. But when we say you're from 80 to 100% chance more likely that you're going to be able to perform at your best, your absolute best. So that is what the study is. Now, when you're in a yellow light state, you have a 40% chance of likely to be able to perform. That means your odds have really dropped dramatically from 80 to 40%. But then when you're in a red light state, you're at a 5% chance where you're in total chaos, and that is when you got to go back and get a resetness done. So, yeah, that was a study that was done for newer scientists, not just there, but they were studying brainwaves that were in the brain and then affecting your coordination and your muscle sequences. That is huge. And so that in and of itself should help you to be more aware of what state that you're in, right, Buck?

SPEAKER_00 20:25

A thousand percent. Because guys, I don't know about you, but I want to have the greatest odds for each of my shots. If I'm going into a second shot after a bad drive off the T that puts me in the woods, and I haven't fully released that, and I'm still operating from a red light state, and my body language is slumped over, and I'm using negative self-talk, I'm basically at that point a fight or flight mode, and my brain is completely offline to a degree. And now I'm about to swing when I'm about five to fifteen percent at my optimal state, and chances are that's not gonna be good, which is why we're talking about this, because those of you that struggle with blow up holes and you've been there before, you get the bad shot, followed by another bad shot, followed by another bad shot. We call it the domino effect. If you want to release yourself from that, you have to be able to, number one, have awareness of what state you're in, and then number two, you need to be able to release the previous shot so that you can be fully present and focus on the next shot. Because if you want to win, again, you've heard us say this acronym before win is an acronym that stands for what's important now. That's the key. And you look at the game's best, Scotty, Tiger, over the course of their careers, they've hit a lot of bad shots. But what they do phenomenal at, and we talked about this in episode four, is that they fully release it and then they're fully present for the next shot. That's the key. And again, I thought we saw that in action this past Sunday. Man, what an amazing up and down. Now, you didn't quite do what Tiger did in 2005, but everybody knows you do not go long on Sunday at 16, and sure enough, really finds himself in almost the exact location as Tiger did in 05 when he won. And really, instead of chipping, he hits the putt, and my goodness, what a phenomenal putt that was to just under a foot away for a tap-in par when everybody was probably at home looking at that and watching it and going, Oh, he's definitely walking away with a bogey here. So again, it's about the response, it's about the release. And again, what does a yellow light look like, Shannon?

SPEAKER_01 22:33

Yeah, so the yellow lights, so what happens is attention starts to rise in your neck and your hands, and then your attention becomes less clear and it drifts a little bit. Your self-talk becomes rushed or negative. You're not quite lost yet, but you're starting to lose control. Your mind is drifting. Now you're in a moment that you actually need to reset, and awareness is early, like an early warning system. But here's the thing about a yellow link state. A lot of people don't realize this, but it has actually been proven through a neuroscientist that most golfers, when they show up to the first state, they're in a yellow light state. And so knowing that we need to get out of that yellow light state and move it back into green light. And there's several situations that can come up that can happen that'll put us in that yellow light state. And it could be this, it could be outside things, not just things that immediately happen. It could be school, if you're in school, it could be that, it could be work, it could be relationship, something that goes on with your car, anything like that. Some things that are outside that take place when you're going up to the first T that you're still carrying, and you got to get rid of that. But what are some other instances that might put you in a yellow light state?

SPEAKER_00 23:48

Oh, yeah, it could be anything that's external that can drive it. And it could just be the simplest things. Like, for example, for our college teams, it could be as simple as a coach coming over and distracting you a little bit and saying, hey, a lot of the players are coming up short and ending up in the creek just before the green. Make sure you take some extra club here. And now you got that that puts them from a green light to a yellow light state. And so there's a lot of different situations that can drive it. The key thing is first being aware and then doing something about it. And again, if you haven't listened to episode four on what we teach with the release mechanism, go back and re-listen to the second half of episode four. That way you have that. Shannon, what about red light?

SPEAKER_01 24:28

Red light. Right. Alarm bells are going off. This is a definite alarm clock that's going off in your head, and you've got to get back. Because remember what we were saying before, you've got a 5% chance to be able to even perform in a red light state. And so what happens? Your emotion takes over your logical mind. So remember what I was talking about before about the emotions that take place. That actually takes over your logical mind. Your body language starts to get tight, frustrated. So instead of having that big body language, you're more slumped over. You're you're continually looking down at the ground. Your focus starts to shrink, or then your focus starts scatter widely. When I say focus, you're thinking about score, or you have to make this shot. That isn't a lack of focus. You have to make, you're putting unnecessary pressure on yourself when you're doing that. Your decision making and execution starts suffering. Your timing, your coordination breaks down, rushed or did disconnected from swing patterns. You're moving out of that, you're inefficient with your brain activity that's going on when you're in a red light state. And not just that, like I was saying, you're starting to feel that heavy tension. Here's the other thing, too. Your heart rate generally can rise as well because of pressure. Sometimes we're putting more pressure on ourselves. It could be the type of shot, it could be like you're at the 18th hole and you're one shot away from shooting your new lifetime low round. That's pressure. Your heart rate rises, and then how do you get back to that green light state?

SPEAKER_00 26:02

The amazing thing about all these states, just becoming aware and to give you guys a visual, think of it as in a green light state, you are pretty much in flow state. There's very little conscious thought activity happening. You're essentially playing caveman golf. You are playing in the best state that you can possibly play in. Yellow light state, there's a lot of a little bit more traffic that's taking place in the brain as far as like thought activity. And they've proven this with brainwave data. What's really interesting, and to give you guys some examples, with a red light state, Dr. Z. Justis, he's done, I think, scans on over 15,000 golfers now. And what's so fascinating is the number one fastest way that golfers can get into a red light state is missing a three-foot putt. So they walk you through this really fast. Just imagine if you miss a three-foot putt, see if this resonates. If I just miss a three-foot putt, think about the activity that's going through your brain. You're like, oh my goodness, I just missed that. Oh wow, do I have the yips? What is going on? I cannot believe I just missed that putt. Oh my goodness, that is so embarrassing. Like, why do I always miss putts? What are my planning partners gonna think of me? I cannot believe I just let the team down. Like you see how fast the thoughts are happening? And so that's a red light state. Now, the other thing, it can be the weight, like it can be a weight of a thought that can also be front and center of your mind, and that's also an indicator of being in a red light state. So the biggest thing is you have to have a release mechanism for when you recognize this. And again, one of the things we're gonna teach is one of our most effective release mechanisms in the next episode, which is what we call the ball reset. We just don't have enough time to really go deep into it this time. So what we want to do is just keep it very straight and to the point, like we've been doing, and keep keep doing what we've been talking about as far as keeping it one thing, so that way you guys can really digest it, understand it, and then keep building. And that's why we're doing it in the way that we're doing it. And the biggest thing that you can take away from this particular episode is first becoming aware of what your signalites are. And then one of the best ways that we're gonna help you do that, we're actually gonna include in the show notes our signalites awareness sheet. So this is something that we provide all of our clients and then even our book buyers. If you have not yet purchased Indozone Secrets, you can do so if you're in the US. You just go to IndozoneSecrets.com and you can get a free signed copy from us. And then if you're international, make sure you go through Amazon. If you would like the Signalites worksheet, we're gonna put this in the show notes, and that way you can go in, just put your email in, and it'll give you the direct download to your email. And then that way you can actually go through and find out in each of the major areas of the game.

SPEAKER_01 28:42

Here's what Buzz's talking about. With the Signalite worksheet that you're doing, what you're doing is what happens when you're out on the golf course, you need to have a live assessment like ongoing. What does that self-assessment look like? What is your body language doing? Are you timid? Are you fidgety? Are you looking down, you slumped shoulders, or do you have big body language? Because if you have big body language, you're in a green line state. What is your focus doing? For example, are you outcome focused? Is it about your previous performance? Like you had a bad shot, are you still focusing on that? There's external distractions. And then what is your self-talk? Well, how are you talking to yourself? Are you questioning your ability? Are you doubting your skills? Are you in prayer mode? Or when I say prayer mode, like hope. Hope is not a strategy. But here's the big thing you have to think of you need to become that one-shot warrior, not take that shot off, like we're talking about Scotty Scheffler not taking a shot off. So when you recognize that, when you do that, that live self-assessment, you're basically calling out the state that you're in. Are you in green light, yellow light, or red light state to get you back to where you can perform your best in green light? That is what you're doing every time that you step up to the ball. And you really need to be more self-aware of what's going on in your body, what your focus is, and what your self-talk is.

SPEAKER_00 30:07

I love that, Shannon. And what Shannon just walked through with you guys is one of the most powerful things you can do in your golf game, which is bring awareness to what state you're in. That is the first and one of the most important steps into actually creating consistent performance and the type of scores and results that you want in your golf game. Because the number one thing that I see time and time again in our community when I have conversations with a lot of our golfers is that they lose focus or they have blow up holes. I hear that all the time. And one of the best ways to do that is to come up with a process that can literally in real time measure and track like what state are you in, because the best performance is always going to come from that green light state. And we should be doing everything in our power to get back there. You got to first become aware so that we don't keep making the same mistakes and create these bullet holes that you keep having on the and around. This is the first and most important step to making it happen. Now, I hope you guys really enjoyed this episode because what we're gonna do is we're gonna continue to build on this because in the next episode, we're gonna teach about the ball reset and all the amazing things that you can use at in going immediately from a red light state back to a green light state. Really powerful. So we're gonna definitely share that in the next episode. And then the episode after that, we're also gonna talk about the internal thermostat too, and we're gonna share a story about one of the most remarkable things that we have ever been a part of. We worked with a Division I golf team, and we were able to take their team score, which was in the fall, was a 305. And after we went and trained them over two days that spring season, they set numerous school records, got their score down to a 284.5. They had set the third lowest round in school history at the Pac-12 championships. They were able to meet their big goal, which was to host their own regional. What's really neat is one of their players is now on the LPGA tour. One of the biggest keys that unlocked all that was the internal thermostat, and the exercise that we actually walked them through is something that we're gonna teach you in that episode as well. Guys, I hope you love this episode. And again, if you haven't already, make sure you subscribe to this, share this with somebody that you know that can benefit from this podcast. And again, all the resources that we mentioned with the signalites and all the links we talked about today, that's gonna be listed down below in the show notes. Before we wrap up, Shannon, you got anything last things to say?

SPEAKER_01 32:23

Yeah, guys, don't take what we're talking about on this episode lightly, because this can make or break your game when it comes to being able to self-aware of that. And yes, in the beginning, here's the thing that will set you apart because it's gonna take time for you to recognize it. It's gonna take time for you to be like, okay, when do you need a self-assessment? And that's what the beautiful thing is with the download that we're giving you, is it's gonna allow you to do a deep dive. Once you fill the all the different areas out that we talked about, it's gonna become that mental alarm clock once you get out on the course. Because if you wait to get out on the course, that's not gonna happen. We talked about our brain being that our brain accounts. You're putting that deposit in. So then what happens is you'll be able to recognize and help you to be more aware. So we're excited. Don't take this, don't take this lightly. Get that download and go through it and be diligent about it because it will change your golf game. I promise you that for sure.

SPEAKER_00 33:27

Definitely. So don't take that lightly. Go ahead and do that again. Download that worksheet, go fill that out. It's gonna change your game. Go be a caveman golfer. And uh, remember, you're just one round away.