October 16, 2002

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As an added feature to anyone that purchases any of our products, after you purchase the product, with your receipt, you will receive instructions so you can download the book The Swing In Golf, as our compliments. This book has five chapters and is only 82 pages, but has a lot of useful information in it. The five chapters are; hitting the ball, nature of the swing, learn the swing, wrist-play, and keeping your eye on the ball. Thanks to all of you for your business, and I hope you enjoy it, and I am sure it will prove beneficial to help you improve your game. Let me know what you think of it.



Announcement:

We are shooting some new golf video\'s with Ken Black from Canada down at Myrtle Beach, SC, November 11 and 12. Need one extra person to be in the video\'s; if any of you are going to be at the beach during this time and have the two days to help us. Just email me and let me know if you are interested. Richard@thinkandreachpar.com



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Richard\'s Recommendations: I assure you that if you use Matt\'s program, it will help not only your game, but your everyday like.

Everyone knows that golf is at least 90% mental, right? Even the top pros will tell you this. But how often do you get a champion athlete to come along who will teach you the exact strategy he used to achieve world champion success? Not often. Most materials on success and achievement today are written by those who have never really done it. Well, all that has changed. Matt Furey has put together a program that I went through last week and it has not only improved my golf game, but my business, too. Imagine that. Playing better golf and earning more money. Sounds like a dream life, right? It\'s not. And Matt will teach you exactly how to do it. He should know by golly. He\'s a world kung fu champion and a top notch businessman. In fact, he\'s doing so well he\'s the envy of his peers - a good position to be in. Better to be envied than pitied, don\'t you think? Although I rarely if ever recommend products to you - this one is different. Be sure to get a copy of Matt Furey\'s \"Magnetic Mind Power for Peak Athletic Performance.\" Click here to find out more. www.magneticmarketingsite.com/info/108/





Keep a Golf Journal
by
Mac Stevenson
If you\'re a serious golfer--regardless of your handicap--there\'s a simple way to improve your game.
Following the winter layoff, you undoubtedly go out and play from memory with little thought to small details. As the new season progresses and the weather warms, you become more serious about your game. Problems raise their ugly heads. Perhaps you\'ve been pulling a lot of irons or pushing too many tee shots. Or you may be hitting behind a lot of pitch shots.
When you\'re having trouble with one particular shot, it\'s good to go to the driving range and try and figure out what you\'re doing wrong. And that\'s when you start \"thinking\" golf.
Whether it\'s the result of lessons from your pro or just working by yourself, you discover a key swing thought that improves your game. As an example, if you\'re hitting behind your pitch shots, it might help to move your hands forward at address.
Whenever you discover a swing thought that really helps on a shot you\'ve been having trouble with, enter it in a journal when you get home; make the notation while the new thought is fresh in your mind. You might discover the key on the driving range or during an 18-hole round. All that\'s required is a $.75 spiral notebook--nothing fancy.
Just enter the day, month, and year as a heading. Then put down something like this: \"My drives and full iron shots have been inconsistent. After thinking about it, I decided to widen my stance slightly to make it harder to sway. It helped today.\"
All of us have periods of poor putting; even the pros go through putting slumps. And you try all kinds of adjustments--grip changes, stance alteration, just about anything you think might help until you hit on a key thought that works. Be sure and enter that new method in your journal because it might help you a year or so in the future, when you\'re going through another putting slump. And these mind keys are unique to your personality; they\'re not something you\'re going to find in a book.
Make entries when something\'s going real bad, not just when you find a solution to a problem. That way you\'ll recognize the problem when it recurs in the future. When you discover what you\'re doing wrong, enter that too.
After you\'ve made numerous entries concerning personal thoughts about your game, it\'s fun and beneficial to read through your journal periodically. You\'ll be amazed at how often a tip is recalled--which applies only to you and your game--that you entered in your journal and had forgotten.
If you don\'t keep a journal, the good and bad thoughts will vanish from your memory and a valuable reference will be lost. And best of all, it takes very little time and effort. You\'ll be amazed at how quickly your personal swing thoughts add up in your journal. It\'s great fun to review your written thoughts from time to time, and it will help you play better golf.


Richard\'s Quick Tips

More on Putting

Most putting greens are not flat but have a slope or contour that will make the ball break to the left or right. First assess the slope\'s severity and then pick a primary target-a point on the green where the ball\'s roll will be affected by that slope. You must still aim to putt straight, but straight to that primary target. More second putts are missed because the first one was struck too softly or firmly, not because the putt was too wide of the hole. Pace is more critical than direction. Here\'s the best way to judge pace and distance: practice putting from 30 yards and set yourself a target area wider than the hole-say, 3 feet wide-to aim for. I have used this with many people and each one said it has helped them. Try it.

Concentrate on the total stroke, which is one third backward swing and two thirds forward swing. Think \"one third back, two thirds through\" to help you maintain control of the complete putt, even for short shots. Imagine a triangle that hangs down from your shoulders, through your chest, and tapers down your arms to pint at your grip. Notice that ,while the shoulder have a smooth, rocking pendulumlike action, the triangle always stays intact. Arms, hands, and putter just come along for a ride.

The arc of the putt goes like this; the shoulders, arms, and putter go back on a slight arc inside the target line. On short putts this arc is hardly noticeable. Keeping the club head close to the ground in the backswing creates the arc naturally. You must have the club face looking at the target on the forward swing.

To get the right feel first roll a ball underhand to your circular target. Feel how much back swing it took to roll it that far. Now practice putting with the same feel.


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Richard\'s Thoughts

Another one of my life long friends that I have kept in touch with over the years is James M. Hutto, III Jimmy is a small man, standing only 5\'5\" tall and weighing 160 pounds, was an outstanding athlete in high school, lettering in football, track, baseball, and basketball. (that was one of the advantages of coming from a small high school, you had the opportunity to play all sports). Anyway, upon graduation from college Jimmy started work immediately in the life insurance business. He has worked and studied his way to the top of his field, and now resides in Alabama. On occasion Jimmy sends me articles, etc. that he thinks I will enjoy, and this week I want to share one with you.



IT\'S ALL ABOUT ATTITUDE
The 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud lady, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o\'clock, with her hair fashionably coifed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary.
After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready. As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had
been hung on her window. \"I love it,\" she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy.
\"Mrs. Jones, you haven\'t seen the room ....just wait.\"
\"That doesn\'t have anything to do with it,\" she replied. \"Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or
not doesn\'t depend on how the furniture is arranged ... it\'s how I arrange my mind. I\'ve already decided to love it ... \"It\'s a decision I make every morning when I wake up.
I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as
long as my eyes open I\'ll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I\'ve stored away just for this time in my life.
Old age is like a bank account ... you withdraw from what you\'ve put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories.
Thank you for your part in filling my Memory bank. I am still depositing every day. Remember these simple rules to be happy:
1. Love God
2. Free your heart from hatred.
3. Free your mind from worries.
4. Live simply.
5. Give more and expect less.
No one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from now and start a brand new ending. \"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.\"

Thank you James M. Hutto, III.

What is attitude? Attitude is your basic mind set, your outlook, how you view things..For example, people with different attitudes will view the same situation from quite different perspectives. A particular situation will be seen as a problem to one person and an opportunity to another.

It is usually the person who sees that situation as an opportunity that will be able to think of a useful solution to correct the situation. So, a positive attitude can see opportunities in a situation where a negative attitude will only see the problems and obstacles. This can apply to all aspects of life, including how you play on the golf course.

In business the difference between a positive attitude and a negative attitude can often mean the difference between success and failure. A positive attitude will transmit positive and friendly signals, where a negative attitude repels people. How often have you experienced this as a customer in a business and vowed never to go back again.

People with ingrained negative attitudes often view life and work as a struggle. They have been conditioned by their family or other background to expect life to be a struggle: almost with a fatalistic resignation that things don\'t work out.
Richard

A positive attitude can result in developing a plan for your life or business rather than staying in a rut, doing what you have always done. Seeing a problem situation as an opportunity to solve this problem or create a new approach to doing something, rather than allowing the problem to block you and your hopes of achieving your goal.

I am not saying that it is easy and does not require work, because it does. It does require effort, but this is different to struggle which than one laced with negative emotion.


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Until next week, good golfing.

Richard Myers
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