From Panic Attack to Best Drive Ever: Sam Snead's Secret and the B.A.L.L. Reset

You are playing the best round of your life. Front nine 38. Your playing partner says this could be the day you finally break 80. You smile. You feel it. Then you snap hook your drive out of bounds. Triple bogey. Round gone. 

That is a yellow light moment that went to red without a protocol. Today Bo and Shannon give you the protocol. 

In Episode 7 they gave you the signal lights. Today they deliver the intervention. The B.A.L.L. Reset comes directly from the Moment of Truth chapter in In The Zone Secrets and takes you from red light back to green in as little as 10 seconds. On the course. Before the very next shot. 

Here's what you will hear in this episode: 

— The five situations that call for a B.A.L.L. Reset, including the one most golfers miss: the emotional high after a birdie that puts you in red light before the very next tee shot 

— The score awareness trap: why doing the math on sixteen is one of the fastest ways to shift from playing golf to protecting a score 

— B is for Breathe: Stanford Medicine's physiological sigh, the king of all breathing techniques, demonstrated live by Shannon on the episode 

— How Dr. Izzy Justice's hard release trigger paired with the physiological sigh delivers the same calming effect as twenty minutes of meditation in under 10 seconds 

— A is for Affirm: the T-chart exercise from the book that pre-programs your power talk before the round so you make withdrawals from a full account instead of scrambling under pressure 

— The courtroom illustration: Bo and Shannon bring the faith dimension into the Affirm step in a way that applies on and off the golf course 

— L is for Look Back: Sam Snead shaking so badly at the Greenbrier he needed both hands to tee the ball, then outdriving three champions by fifteen yards moments later using exactly this technique 

— L is for Look Forward: how the final step delivers W.I.N. — What's Important Now — and creates laser-sharp focus on the only thing that matters, the next shot 

— How to practice the B.A.L.L. Reset on the range so it runs automatically in 15 seconds when the moment arrives on the course 

Bo closes with the Episode 9 tease: the Internal Thermostat and the University of Washington Women's Golf Team. From 305 to 284 in one season, school records, and a player now on the LPGA Tour. 

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

At the end of episode seven, I made you a promise. I told you that once you had the signalite awareness, once you could recognize green, yellow, and red in your own game, the next step was giving you the tool to get you back to a green light in seconds. Not in a few holes, not after you calm down on the walk home, like in seconds, on the course and middle around like the very next shot. That tool is called the ball reset. And we are gonna deliver it today in full. Now, let me just paint the scene for a moment. Because I want you to think about a specific situation before we get into the system. You're playing the best round of your life, you just completed the front nine with a 38. Your playing partner turns to you on the tenth T and says, Man, this could be the day that you finally shoot your lifetime low round and actually break 80 today. Then you smile, you feel it. Then seconds later, you snap hook your drive, OB, triple bogey, and just like that, the round is gone. That right there is a yellow light moment that went to red without a protocol, and the ball reset is exactly what would have saved that round. Hey, what if your best round 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 ground, not just once by accident, but to be able to become the kind of golfer that knows how to perform when it matters most. Hey, I'm Bo Watson.

SPEAKER_01 1:30

Hey, I'm Shannon Shusky. Think about this a golfer who plays with freedom, a golfer who stops sabotaging themselves and starts trusting what's already in there, that's why we call it caveman golf. C target, sea ball, hit ball. You've heard us say that over and over again. We're gonna finally get you to start believing that's really the truth in it.

SPEAKER_00 1:54

Hey guys, just real quick shout-out. Really important that we want you guys to know this. I know you've been with us now. And if you're like, this really resonates, I really want to go further. I want to see what it looks like to work with you guys. We've created an amazing opportunity called One Round Away Challenge that we're really excited about because last time we did a challenge like this in the past, we had 151 golfers go through it. 113 of them that reported back. They dropped 5.1 strokes in 45 days, is what they reported back to us. So if you're like, hey, I would love to work with you guys and I would love to get my questions answered live. This is an amazing new opportunity that we're creating just for you. Sign up for that. All you gotta do is go to endazone secrets.com slash one round away. And again, that link will be posted in the show notes for you. That being said, let's get back to the episode.

SPEAKER_01 2:39

If you have not listened to episode seven yet, go back before you listen to this one because everything we're about to teach builds directly on the signal like awareness we've given you last week. Green light, yellow light, red light.

SPEAKER_00 2:53

Today we're gonna give you that inner vision. So let's go. Yeah, and guys, I will tell you this. If you have not, and this is like the first time you're listening to the podcast, I would strongly urge you go back to episode one and listen to that particular episode. That way you guys have a true understanding of like why everything that we're sharing with you guys is ultimately going to get you to play caveman golf. And we know that when you play your best, it's from a state where you don't think your inflow state, your best ever rounds, ever. I've had thousands of conversations with golfers over the years, many in our community. The common denominator that we always see for every lifetime low round, it's that you weren't overthinking, you weren't thinking swing faults, you weren't thinking, all right, get foot pressure in my right heel, and then shift it back into the left heel on down swing through P7, P8, and then make sure the hips are turned at 35 degrees at P7. No, that is not when you're ever gonna play your best golf. It's always gonna be from a place where it's C target, C ball, hit ball, and that's hence the term caveman golf. So please go back, watch episode one, and you're gonna understand more of our story, but more importantly, you're gonna get the foundation for where we are now on this podcast, which is now episode eight. We just finished in episode seven of Signal Lights. Today is the ball reset. This is coming from directly our book, End Zone Secrets. And so the ball has an acronym. Shannon, you want to share what the acronym is?

SPEAKER_01 4:23

Yeah, so before I get into the ball acronym, just to reflect and do a slight little recap. In episode seven, we gave you what we call signal lights. It's what your your brain is conditioning, what we call a red light state. In a red light state, you have a 5% more likely of a chance to perform your best. Now that's it, that's crazy low. And then when you're in a yellow light state, you're at a 40% likely of a chance to perform your best, which is even lower. But when you're in a green light state, you have an 80% plus chance to actually be able to perform at your best. And so we're actually going to give you an interviction today with the ball reset. And it comes directly from our book in the Zone Secrets, and from that moment of truth chapter, we talk about the ball acronym. And basically it's the four stents. It's breathe, affirm, look back, look forward. And when all four of these sequenced together, you're putting your brain and your nervous system in the best position to be able to perform at its very best and to give you the perfect reset. And you shift from survival mode to back to performance mode.

SPEAKER_00 5:30

Definitely. Yeah, and Shannon, the one thing I just want to make sure everybody is very clear about in the last episode, and then we also talked about it in episode four. You know, your release routine, it's basically something that you're going to do for every single shot. It's just like the custom trigger, but we have what's called a release trigger. Pia and Lynn with Vision 54, they pioneered the think visualization box, right? And then the play box. And then you have to have another one. You have to have a release box. And that's why that we want to have a release trigger because we want to make sure that we're covering all the bases. And you guys have heard this over the years, the 10-step rule that Tiger followed through the majority of his career. Some people say it was the 10-second rule. The main thing is that there is a reset. There is a release, so to speak. Ben Hogan. This has been widely publicized, but he followed something a little bit different where he would envision this massive wall behind him. So like every time he was tempted to look back at a previous shot, he couldn't because there's like this great wall of China that's blocking his view. And what it did is it forced him to stay in the present moment. But there are gonna be times in your rounds where it's like you missed a three-foot putt. Dr. Izzy Justice, we talked about this in the last episode. You're in a very strong red light state. Uh, another example is you are right there in a place where you hit a great drive and it bounced off a sprinkle head and it rolls into the water. Again, there's another one where let's say your coach came over, told you, hey, there's a lot of people that's coming up short and they're finding the creek just in front of the green, and you need to make sure you take an extra club. Um, or maybe it's a plane partner that says the wrong thing at the wrong moment. How many times have we experienced that? Or even a weather delay. So they're things that are literally outside of our control that if we're aware and we know that they're pushing us in a very strong yellow or red light state. These are all unique situations that we need to make sure that we are pulling out this ball reset tool or giving you a tool to put in your tool belt, so to speak. Shannon, what do you want to add on that?

SPEAKER_01 7:33

And here's another one that we don't even think it about. It's that emotional high. It's like when you're shooting your best shot of the round and your play partner says something to you. This one surprises most golfers because they don't even think that playing good actually becomes a problem. Number one, you're not used to it. Let's say you make a birdie or an eagle and your play partner goes crazy and you get pumped, right? Everything feels electric. We've all experienced that. And then you step over the next hole and you snap hook it to the trouble, right? Who's done that? Everybody's gonna be raising their hand. Why? It's because that emotional elevation in either direction takes you out of a green light state. Number one, you're you're attaching that emotional to that performance, and it's not become normal yet. You're not used to birding every hole. So the what happens is you become in a red light state and don't even realize it because the frustrations and fear, it's like overexcitement, over-arousal, the adrenaline spike of a great shot that has been regulated before the next one begins because we're not used to walking in that. You have that emotional attachment that's there, and that's not normal. But we have to be able to make it feel normal. And so a suggestion is this you're playing great. Start saying verbally this is normal. Use that over. And so what happens is you're taking that emotional charge, that emotional high, and you're making that feel normal, and you're expecting to play well. And then what happens is you're losing lack of focus. You're because of that emotional charge, that weightiness that's going on in the brain, it's affecting your coordination. You're not playing well, and so then you got to get back to the green light state. We'll show you how to do that even with a ball reset. But you have any other ones?

SPEAKER_00 9:28

Yeah, I just want to say a quick comment on that because it's one of the most common things that Shannon and I've seen over the years and having conversations with a lot of golfers, is just the roller coaster effect. That's like when you know players will make birdie or an eagle, and then in the very next hole, they make a double. And this is something that we've actually seen with even our tour players. So, guys, this is not something that the everyday amateur golfer struggles with. No, like our college players and then our tour players that we've worked with. This is a reset that we've implemented into their games, and it's made all the difference in the world. Because, like, before this one particular player, I can't tell you how many times where she would actually make a birdie, and then the very next cell will be a bogey. And it was like this constant roller coaster effect. Then once we implemented the ball reset, now again, we're gonna talk about this in the next episode: the importance of the internal thermostat and the identity, because once you start addressing it at the root level, like Shannon was just talking about a minute ago about this is normal, there is a time and place where the birdies start becoming more normal and it doesn't affect you so much emotionally. The next episode is gonna be critical to that. But one last thing I'll say as far as like another situation that can call for the ball reset is we call it a score awareness trap. Let's say, for example, you're on hole 16 and you recognize that you're on pace for your lifetime low round. And let's say right now you're three over par, you know, your last lifetime low round was 79, and you're just sitting there going through the the counting in your head. If I just par out 16, 17, 18, I'm gonna shoot 75 my lifetime low round.

SPEAKER_01 11:01

Hey, by something I want to say something real quick too. I want to add to that. It's not just shooting your lifetime low round. You might be a tournament golfer and you're in the same situation. We have to be aware in when in tournament situations too, because that is huge because there's so many, there's so much more consequences. There's a lot of money on the line, for example. And the regular golfer didn't think, wow, this could be worth a hundred thousand dollars on this punt. And so you have that stuff going through as well. But I wanted to open that up to even a bigger part of the audience and not just shooting your lifetime low realm.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

Those tournament golfers are doing the same thing. Thousand percent. Yeah, I'm glad you added that because in each of those different situations, when you have that awareness, and again, it starts with awareness. This is why we're doing in the order that we are, because first off, you would think that and you would just go through your habitual loop of doing the same thing over and over again. You would continue to compound and make the same mistakes, but not you as a caveman or cavegirl golfer, right? Because now what you're gonna have is a tool that you're gonna be able to implement to stop the double bogey and a bogey, and then you end up shooting like 80 or 81 when you could have shot your lifetime low of 75, or you don't collapse when you knew that there was this amount of money on the line, so to speak. That's what we're gonna show you right now. So, Shannon, you want to go ahead and start with what does B mean in the ball reset?

SPEAKER_01 12:28

So B means brief. Okay, it's a deep breath, but you know what? We have found over time, we actually I'll say this a lot of science has proven that when you take a just a normal deep breath, it does clear out the brain and stuff like that. However, there's been at Stanford Medicine Research, they approved that what's called the physiological psi is the king of all breathing techniques. They actually did a study, they had well over 700 participants across the U.S. from north, south, east, west, and they actually had different types of monitors on their body and going through different situations, and they have figured out yes, they've done the the four-second breathing technique, the box breathing technique, the four count breathing, all the different types of breathing, the types of deep breath, and they have found that physiological psy was the king of out of all in what it does in to your body. So, what it is, it's like a double inhale, a slight pause, and then a long exhale. When I say a double inhale, what is you're taking that normal deep breath, you fill up your total lung capacity, and then you take a very brief pause, and then you take another very sharp, quick inhale again. So what happens is the first breath fills up all the air that's in your lung. The second breath, there's these little sacs that go around your lung, and that second breath because of the pause, and then that sharp deep breath again actually fills up all the sacs in the lung. So you're actually increasing your lung capacity, not just your regular lungs, but then the all the sacs that are going around it. That's why it was the king of all breathing techniques. So then when you take that brief pause, so it's like a deep inhale for two seconds, and then a one-second inhale, take a brief pause, and then like a six-second exhale. What it does to the brain is it relaxes the body and actually lowers your baseline of anxiety, lowers it. So the breathe is that. So then we incorporated it with Dr. Izzy Justice, who's done over 14,000 brain scans on golfers. His original study showed just a regular deep breath, but we're putting the deep breath on steroids by adding the physiological side. So we're incorporating one of the things that Dr. Izzy Justice found by squeezing your hands on a scale from one to 10, you're squeezing as hard as you can at an 11. And what it actually does, it increases the brain frequencies extremely high and then lowers it. Boom, it does that within seconds. So what we're doing is if we're incorporating the physiological side with the two deep breaths at the pause, you're squeezing at a scale from one and ten to an 11 during that time, and then you're you're exhaling. So what it looks like is this it's very simple. You're inhaling, you're taking two deep breaths. You may not be able to hear me on the system, but I'm gonna take two deep breaths, and then you're squeezing from on a scale from one and ten to an 11. You can squeeze your hands just by themselves. If you have your golf club, you can squeeze it there. If you're pushing a car, you can squeeze it there. Even if you're in the in a golf cart, you can squeeze the steering wheel. There's different ways. As long as they're a squeeze. So what it looks like is this it's like you're taking a deep breath in, and then another quick inhale, and then you're squeezing from a scale from one to ten to an 11 as hard as you can for three seconds, and then that and you're holding your breath during that time, and then you're exhaling for six seconds, a long exhale, and you're taking that squeeze from an 11 back down to a two, and literally that's all it takes. So within like 10 seconds, 11 seconds, you're literally taking your brain from a red light state to a green light state. Again, it's a deep inhale for two seconds, and then a sharp inhale again, holding your breath, squeezing as hard as you can, and 11, and then for three seconds, and then you're exhaling out. And so you may be able to hear me. I'm not sure. I'm gonna try to be as loud as I can. Sometimes the sound doesn't pick up, but this is what it sounds like. Squeeze as hard as you can, eleven for three seconds, and then exhale out, and slowly release your grip from an eleven to a two, and that's it. And that's the breathe part of ball reset. Bo, did I miss anything?

SPEAKER_00 17:19

Man, you really cover that really well. The one thing I would just say is the amazing thing about that breathe with hard reset is that in the brain, you're talking doing something just for a few seconds like that has in the brain the same effect of 20 minutes of meditation or 20 minutes of yoga. I don't know about you guys, but I am all about some quick neurohacks if that's gonna be the effect in the brain that I'm gonna get. And that's what is so incredible about this is that now you have something that can very quickly take you from a state that's in a red light state and get you back to a green light state like within a matter of seconds. The amazing thing is Dr. Zjustice has shown that just with the reset portion, but the thing that we've added in there is the physiological side, and it's a two-for-one deal. And like you're getting the greatest return not only from a stress response, but also in your brain, as far as like the activity brain waves, you're putting yourself very quickly back into a state where you're in a green light state and back online and out of fight or flight mode, and that is extremely important. So let's move on to A, which is the affirm power talk. And the amazing thing about the A part is that when we talk about power talk, this is where it is critical, like depending on the situation that you're in. Let's give you an example. Let's say I hit a shot out of a bunker and it was terrible. It didn't make it quite all the way to the green. And then before I move to my next shot, I just did the breathe with hard reset. The very next thing I'm gonna say is, hey, adversity is my advantage. That's my power talk phrase or my affirm that I'm gonna use as part of this. And so A stands for a power talk statement that is specific to the situation. Let's say, for example, maybe it's an upcoming shot, and we're gonna get it to all the different uses here in a second. But let's say it wasn't even that, it was into another shot where it's gonna be very difficult up and down. I'm still in the bunker, okay. And this next shot that I'm playing from is like a side hill lie out of the bunker to a very tight pin. And again, I do a breathe hard reset. Then the A is my power talk statement. And I could use that same power talk phrase that versus my advantage, or I could say, hey, the harder the shot, the more accurate I am. That's another example. And so you get the idea of the different types of ones that we can say. Or you could also say, I'm a one-shot warrior, I get better under pressure, flush it, move on. These are all different things that we can utilize as power talk statements. Shannon, you want to add to that?

SPEAKER_01 19:59

Yeah, and I want to connect this to something that we had in our book that you if you may have already worked through, you may have read this part. We call it the T chart. So, and what we want you to do is like for homework, though, this would be a game changer because what you're doing with power talk statements, you are pre-programming decisions that automate good choices in that moment. Okay, it becomes a mental alarm clock. We want you to take a T chart, take a few minutes, not now, but you just write this down and do a T chart. On the left side, you want to write down all the negative thoughts that you've had throughout a round. You might go back through your last round and think about all the different things that you would said to yourself, either either out loud or even what we call the inner critic, what the inner critic's screaming inside you, right? Those negative self-talk patterns that typically show up under pressure. Even that, it could be a bad shot. It could be specific moments when you're under pressure. But what we want you to do is write down the specific ones. Like, for example, you might have a 15-foot punt that might be up a hill, and that's something that you seem like, man, I always miss these types of punts. See these patterns, or I can't hit this club in this situation, or I'm going to blow up this lead. If you're in a tournament and you're leading, or if you're with your playing partners, you're beating in. And then if that's on the left side, you're putting down all the little negative thoughts. Then on the right side, you're doing the opposite. We want you to put down your power talk statements that would actually replace those. We want you to flip the script on the negative thought. An example when the specific flip, like I make clutch punts, but in clutch moment, I perform my best. The pressure is a privilege. This is my favorite club in the bag. Like, for example, if your driver's giving you problems, all right, this is my favorite club in the bag. You're really Creating those neuropathways in your brain that you're thinking it and you start believing it. I was born for this moment. This is not positive thinking for its own sake. Write this down because you're pre-programming decisions that ought to make good choices. This is a prepared script for you, specific negative patterns that's going on in your brain and even under pressure, so that when they show up, and trust me, they will show up instead of you scrambling to find the right words to say, you actually already preloading these decisions. And it becomes that mental alarm clock when these situations come up for you to respond in a positive way. Again, you're preloading the affirm step before the even round even happens, before the season even starts, you're making these deposits. So then on that day, when it comes, it's time you can make that withdrawal in an instant.

SPEAKER_00 22:56

Yeah. I chat it's interesting because like I know we we said that we're going to invite the Holy Spirit onto this podcast. And I just feel led right now. You know, one of the other things that's amazing about this exercise, when you go through the T chart, those of you that are believers, write down what you hear the enemy saying. And sometimes we wrongly believe it's our voice, but it's essentially the enemy that's accusing.

SPEAKER_01 23:21

Yeah. And because the devil doesn't care if you're on a golf course or if you're at church or if you're it doesn't matter. He's trying to destroy you. He's come to steal, kill, and destroy. I wanted to add that because we think that golf is like a sacred place. No, it don't matter. He can show up anywhere. And a lot of times he will show up because he's trying to destroy your game, trying to destroy your confidence. But I wanted to put that in there too. It's not just about golf, it's about life, and he's going to show up no matter what.

SPEAKER_00 23:48

Which is why we need to make sure that we're leaning into our inner coach, the Holy Spirit, in these situations. Think of it like a courtroom. You got the enemy that's coming in and he's accusing you, right? And so you have all these accusations, you have all these lies that are being spilled, and then you got the Holy Spirit over here that's advocating on your behalf before the Father, and it's no, you're not condemned. No, you are right, you are righteous, you are holy, you are blameless, because I took these things upon the cross, and therefore I took your place. That's when we stand in right standing with the Father, which then gives us access to come boldly into the throne room and make our petitions known before him. And so there is like this place where we have a secret weapon, so to speak, because we're not fighting from a place of defeat, we're fighting from a place of victory, and the words that we speak we need to understand are not our own. They hold power. Um, death and life are in the power of the tongue. And so the words we speak, we have got to be very conscious of what we're speaking. It's either we're speaking life or we're speaking death. And then what we need to also understand that those of us that do truly believe that we've died in Christ and that it's no longer us who lives, but it's Christ living in and through us, then therefore the words we speak are not at all, and they hold weight, they hold power, and what we speak and we command, they're gonna go out and accomplish its purpose. And then what we need to determine is are we gonna speak life into the situation, or are we gonna believe and speak death? And that's a choice, and that's something that we've got to be very much aware of.

SPEAKER_01 25:17

Absolutely, 100%. And so we're gonna we're gonna keep moving forward because we got the breath, the hard reset, right? And then we've got the affirm your power talk statement. Now we're gonna do the L. The first L in the ball reset is what we call the look back. This is step number three. This is so your brain has a success library of every great shot that you've ever hit and is stored in your library, right? So what you're gonna do is you're you are deliberately gonna go into that library and pull out a specific memory of a great shot. Not just any shot, but it's a detailed version. It might be at your home course, and you can vividly see that it's a specific moment. And then what you're gonna do is you're gonna do mental imagery of that moment. Now remember, we talked about the trigger, we talked about CPR, and we talked, which is that emotional attachment to your target, right? We talked about that. So you're gonna be doing that mental imagery, doing your trigger, your CPR, and that look back of that moment in time of that great shot with that specific club. The confidence that you had, the commitment that you had, and the result that you had in that moment, you're reliving that, you're making it real. And so their memory ends with your conditional response firing, and then it increases your confidence and you're moving forward to going in. Actually, by let's talk about this because you got a great story about Sam Sneed, the very first pivotal moment that was in Sam Sneed's life coming up to the first team. What was that?

SPEAKER_00 26:52

Yeah, yeah. Let's give you something practical because, like, you're like, all right, guys, this sounds great, whatever. Is this really applicable? Listen to the story. Sam Sneed. He is invited to play in an exhibition match one week before he is playing in 1936 in his PGA tour debut at Greenbrier. This exhibition match gets put together, and here's this rookie that everybody's been hearing about. The match consists of two former U.S. AM winners and a former U.S. Open winner. Then you got this young and up-and-comer Sam Sneed. Word gets out that the day of the match on hole one T, there is a large crowd gathered around the T-box. And so the first three guys, they go out and they hit their drives, they're all like in pretty good shape down the middle, and then it's Sam Sneed's turn. Sam goes up to tee the ball into the ground, and at this point he is shaking like a leaf. Alright, I want you to picture this. He is shaking so bad that he actually has to use both hands to steady the ball on the tee. Alright? That's on the verge of a panic attack for those of you that have ever been in that situation or state, right? That's ruthless. Absolutely. Yeah. Now can you can imagine? Like, after he gets the ball on the T, he steps back in the think visualization box. What he does next is he closes his eyes. And what is he doing? He actually relives on that same hole, because he's played the green bar many times over the years, and he replays some of his absolute best ever drives on that same hole. Okay? Then he moves forward, goes up to the shot, and then he hits it. The crowd gasped, why? Because he just outdrove all three of his playing partners by I think a minimum of like 10 to 15 yards. And then get this, it was his best ever drive up to that point out of all the past drives he's ever hit on that same hole. So wait a minute, hold on. You mean to tell me this guy is on the verge of a panic attack? Like he has to use both hands to steady a ball on the T. Please, like, just picture this. And then he goes from a that state where he's basically on the verge of a panic attack, to then just a few moments later and he hits his best ever drive on that hole. Like just moments later? Like, how in the world is that even possible? And that's the beauty of the look back and why this can be literally your secret weapon that you will want to implement in just about every single situation where if you have a shot that's coming up that you don't feel good about, you're indecisive, you're not sure, you're fearing, whatever, fill in a blink, and you go through just a B A L portion and you get these three steps right, oh my goodness. Think about this for a second. Because I'm gonna go ahead and go right into the next L, and the next L is look forward. Okay, it means you're bringing your attention to the forward next shot, right? So if you do a breathe hard reset, all right, which we just proven that again, just the breathing alone, physiological psi, has proven to reduce stress, okay? Compared with a hard reset, which has been proven by Dr. Izzy Justice as taking the brain from a red light state, basically fight or flight mode, to then bringing it back online to now you got an 80% chance. I don't know about you. I would much rather have odds of 80% versus five to ten percent, right? So you do that, then you get to the A and you restate or reaffirm, hey, adversity is my advantage, or hey, the tougher the shot, the better I perform. To then you do a look back and relive your best ever shot with that same club in your history. I don't know about you, but if I've done those three steps, I am now excited to look forward to the next shot that I'm about to play. And that's why this is a secret weapon, and it is one of our biggest secret weapons to not only again release in really tough shots, but also getting you into a state where you're excited to play an upcoming shot that you're not feeling good about. The amazing thing about doing these steps is now you've brought your attention back to the present moment, and which we all know is how you win. Win is an acronym, it's what's important now, it's the very next shot. And so, like when you do this ball reset in these specific situations, now you're bringing yourself back to where you now have laser sharp focus for the present moment.

SPEAKER_01 31:33

I want to show you how all this system fits together, the ball reset. You may be thinking it sounds like a lot, right? There's a lot of steps, and then it's a lot to remember during the round. But really, the full ball reset only takes between 30 seconds to 60 seconds at the most. In the beginning, because you're not used to doing it, it may take 60 seconds to two minutes because you're trying to have a fumble through what are the steps, the breed, the hard reset, the affirm, the look back, and look forward. In the beginning, you hear practice makes perfect. That's not true. It's perfect practice that makes perfect. When you're out on the driving range, you need to practice this over and over again. This will help you. On the driving range, there's not a whole lot of consequence. If you hit a shot, it's not up to par, so to speak, and what you're doing. Do a bar reset at that moment. So then you get used to doing it. Whenever that situation arises out on the course, it's like second nature. Again, you're preloading decisions and make good choices. You've heard me say that over and over again. You're going to get that out of anything. You're preloading those decisions. Breathe in and of itself, 10 seconds at the most, maybe not even that. Just to breathe. The two inhales, the pause, literally 10 seconds and you're done. The affirmation, how long does that take? Two seconds, one second, five seconds, depending on how long the phrase is. It's that one phrase that's delivered, but you got to deliver with conviction, like you mean it. And you say it out loud. Don't just think it in yourself. Say it out loud. Say it under your breath. So your playing partners, they may can hear it, they may not get it. It doesn't matter because it's not about them. At that point, it's about you. The look back, how long is that going to take? What, five seconds, ten seconds? Maybe not even that. One specific memory with anytime you're doing mental imagery on the look back, the look forward, you're doing your triggers, CPR, mental imagery, reliving the moment from the past of your best shot, and I'm believing take it to a high another level. Go through your bag, write down all the greatest shots that you've done with all your clubs, and then now you have that library, right? And your look back, this five to ten seconds, maybe not even that. And then you look forward, literally, is that next shot, that very next shot, you're becoming that one-shot warrior. So literally, it's only taking 30 to 60 seconds to go from a red light state to a green light state, from a 5% chance of performing well to an 80% chance. That's a no-brainer. You've got to embrace this and remember when you're doing your mental imagery, you're doing the trigger, your CPR, the mental imagery, you're doing the breathing protocol, remembering the breath, your power talk library, your success history search, you're going through. Eventually, it'll become automatic as your pre-shot routine. It'll literally, it'll be one of those things where you're not even having to think about it. It's not a thought process anymore. It's automated. When that moment arises, your body knows exactly what to do.

SPEAKER_00 34:39

That's so awesome. Shen, that's a great way to uh recap everything and putting it all together. And so I just want to give all you guys, again, to reiterate, just make sure that you spend time this week, do the homework, go through the list of every single amazing shot you've hit in the past, and actually write that down. Because Shannon says this all the time, and I totally agree with him. Your separation is in your preparation. This is how you separate yourself from your competitors, from your playing partners, or just anywhere. And this is true in life. When you actually take the time this week to go over and take like a note card or take anything and just write down, all right, for driver, best ever drive was hole three. On this particular day, it did this, right? Three wood. It was hole seven and hit it to two feet for uh Eagle hybrid. It was uh shot that was amazing, hold it from the fairway on a par four, and made Eagle, right? That's the example of what we're trying to get you to do, and then just go through the process of doing that for every single club. Now, if you want extra credit, if you're a really good player, one thing is we challenge our college players and then our tour players and then any serious amateur is to actually go through different situations, or you take it multiple steps past that. You're not just writing down your best ever drive, but you're writing down your best ever drive in different situations, such as a dog leg left, a dog leg right, wide fairway, very narrow fairway, or a very tough, demanding t-shot, like for an example, like 18 on at Augusta. And then what does it look like in maybe rain or heavy wind? Those are all the different situations, and then you do that for every club in the back. That way, when you're in that situation in the future, you have that particular shot to bring it quickly to the surface in your mind as part of the look back, and you're not having to sit there and go and search. That's why, like when Shannon said it's gonna take you a little bit, maybe it takes 30, 60 seconds. But I can tell you right now, when I do a ball reset and a really good players do a ball reset, it doesn't take you more than 15, 20 seconds to do every single one. Absolutely. Yeah, very critical to understand. So I hope you guys enjoyed this episode. I know we covered a lot, but again, please do your homework this week and get that completed. Spend time actually practicing and rehearsing the ball reset. One of the things we're gonna be talking about in the future is body language and how that kind of comes into this, but again, that's gonna be for another episode. Uh, but the biggest thing that we really want you to do, pay attention to is ball reset. Get those steps down, practice it, and then implement it the next time you go out and play and let us know how you do. One other thing I just want to say too is if you have shot your lifetime low round as part of listening to our episodes, we got something pretty special that we are gonna have go live next week. We're launching a new website, and there's gonna be a particular place where you're gonna be able to go in and actually report your new lifetime low round. Because like we're serious, guys. Like, we're on a mission, we want to help 100,000 golfers shoot their lifetime low rounds. Like, we're not just saying that, we're actually gonna track and measure that. This is a movement of caveman and cavegirl golfers, and we're all unified, and we're going after this one big goal, and that is we're gonna help 100,000 golfers shoot their lifetime low rounds. You guys are joining us on this journey. We're so excited to launch at, have you guys go in and you'll get a special gift as part of that when you do get your new lifetime low round because you're gonna shoot many if you stay with us. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Again, if you have not gotten our book and you would like to, if you're in the US, all you gotta do is go to endazone secrets.com and you can get a signed copy from Shannon and myself, and we got some other cool bonuses there. But if you're outside the US, don't worry. If you're international, just go through Amazon and you'll be able to get Amazon, our book to you as well. And then again, we got some pretty cool uh free tools for you. If you'd like to find out what your mental game score killer is, all you need to do is go to in zone secrets.com slash assessment, and you'll get your own customized blueprint on how to attack that. And then maybe for some of you that are like, hey, I want to get to the next level of my game. I want to compete, I want to win, I want to make it to maybe the highest level in the game. We've helped multiple players get to the top levels in the game. And if that's schedule a free call, you go to in zone secrets.com slash free call, we'll jump on a call. Like you're gonna get a lot of good things from that. Even if it's not a fit, we'll make sure we point you in the right direction. You'll still get the help that you need. Last thing is this, just remember, go out there, be a caveman, be a cave girl golfer. And uh, Shannon, if you got any last things before we wrap up.

SPEAKER_01 39:18

Yeah, just one thing. Like, I I want to reiterate with our system, everybody knows about Chick-fil-A. It's like a billion-dollar business. And in Chick-fil-A, who's running that business? They're all teenagers. It's because they have simple systems put in. It's actually made that business the best in the world. And it's very similar with our system that Bo and I have come up with, it's a very simple system that can really elevate your game to when you can perform your very best when it matters the most. So remember that and dive in. Take Bo up on what he said about schedule it a free call and see what we can do for your game. We can elevate your game and elevate your mental performance. Because look, guys, you're just one round away, Bo.

SPEAKER_00 40:02

A thousand percent. So stay tuned for episode nine. We can't wait to share with you guys uh the power of the internal thermostat. We're gonna share a really cool story, one of the cool stories back in the beginning with working with the University of Washington women's golf team, taking them from the fall scoring average of 305 to 284. They set numerous school records, had multiple wins. And then the really neat thing is we got to see the identity exercise we talked about earlier in this episode, how we had one player from that team actually fulfill it. And now she's currently on the LPJ tour. So stay tuned for that episode. We can't wait to share it with you. And then lastly, just want to share this really quick. We are launching what's called a one round away challenge. We're really excited about this challenge. If you want to get your feet wet and you want to go deeper, you want to actually interact with us live and get your questions answered live. This is an amazing opportunity. Last time we did something like this, we had 151 golfers go through it, 113 that reported back, dropped 5.1 strokes, dropped in the 45 day time frame. So to sign up for that, pretty simple, just go to Endazone Secrets slash one round away, and you'll see that posted in the show notes. And like Shannon said, remember, you're just one round away.