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Self Help: Make Your Performance Soar
Do you know who the first professional golfer was to hit the 9 million dollar mark? My guess would have been Tiger Woods. It was Tom Kite.
Tom has had a remarkable 19 PGA wins, 7 Senior PGA wins and 1 major, the 1992 US Open. His consistency has been his biggest strength. How has Tom Kite been able to continually play winning golf throughout his career?
Kite is a big fan of a basic self-help principle: optimism. He says, "You have to think effectively. Seeing the negative side of what happens on the golf course is not effective thinking."
Self Help: How To Stay Positive at Work
There are two steps to learning the self-help art of optimism. The first is understanding that your
beliefs have a profound impact on your decisions.
Psychological studies on optimism (the idea that what we say to ourselves matters) has shown that we don't do things based on what happens to us. We do things based on what we THINK will happen to us. We don't go to work because we get
paid. We go to work because we THINK we'll get paid.
You don't make mistakes in presentations and meetings because you just made one. You make mistakes because you just made one and you THINK you will mess up again.
This is no small point. The second step to learning how to think constructively is to genuinely understand what
optimism IS.
Optimism isn't telling yourself you're speaking or negotiating well when you
aren't or telling yourself you're confident and cheerful when you aren't.
Optimism is telling yourself that the negative events you are going through are temporary. If you flub the opening of your presentation, you think, "Now my nerves are settled so I can speak with confidence."
If you get criticized, you think, "I can use what I just learned about my boss in my next conversation with him." This is the essence of
optimism: making sure you view negative events as a natural, yet temporary phenomenon during your game.
It worked for Tom Kite. Why not you?
I'll talk to you again soon.
Your friend,
Lisa B.
Advanced Self Help Institute
#106, 527 - 15 Ave SW
Calgary, Alberta T2R 1R5
Phone: (403) 261-2726
Fax: (403) 261-2725
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