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Senator Ted Kennedy was the last of the Kennedy brothers whose power, challenges and triumphs dominated a generation of politics. He was eulogized as an inspiration to his family and to those in public service. His body of work toward progressive causes in the U.S. Senate was proof that he understood how policies affected people. Caring passionately about the people he served, he worked tirelessly on their behalf.

Yet his life was marred by tragedy and scandal - from the assassination of brothers John and Robert and the earlier death of his brother Joseph in World War II, to the deadly Chappaquiddick crash. Despite his personal losses and failings, Teddy Kennedy persevered. He served alongside 10 United States presidents and was well known for his political insight. Another significant role he played was as the patriarch to his brothers’ children and grandchildren.

Perhaps Senator Kennedy’s life situation was more complicated than yours. And you may not have to live up to that kind of a legacy. But as Sandwiched Boomers you must have your share of crises and challenges. What follows are practical tips to help you face them:

1. Evaluate the situation without overreacting or putting your head in the sand. Pay attention to what’s going on around you. Yet avoid getting caught up in a pessimistic mindset that can result in higher levels of anxiety and poor decision making. Remain calm and stay focused on what you need to do.

2. Realize that support is valuable. Reaching out to others when you need encouragement helps you make it through what seems like an impossible situation. Confide in friends and family as you work through the difficulties. A second and objective opinion from a spiritual advisor or therapist can provide you with further insight and direction.

3. History is prologue. As you look back in review, consider how you have dealt with other major trials and tribulations in your life. Think about what has worked for you in the past. Take the specific strategies that you learned from those experiences and, once again, apply the most effective ones.

4. Recognize how you deal with tension. Avoid unhealthy activities like smoking, drinking, gambling or emotional eating. Pressure and stress can bring about more conflict and arguments in relationships. If any of these behaviors are causing problems for you, find healthier approaches to deal with your negative feelings.

5. Difficult times can offer opportunities for needed change. Discover the many ways you can continue to build on your internal assets. Are you fiercely curious and determined to find a solution, no matter what? How can your strength of character and generosity of spirit benefit you in the present circumstances?

6. Set some long-range goals about what you want to accomplish as well as short-term objectives that will get you there. These concrete plans will provide the basic foundation for change. As you successfully move forward step by step, your self-confidence will grow. And incremental action, as well as a positive attitude, will motivate you to stay on track and ultimately reach your goals.

7. Gain perspective, whether you’re hit in the face with a crisis or making a slow transition into the next chapter of your life. Expect a cascade of feelings - anxiety, the desire to hold on, resentment, sadness, fear, even a sense of freedom. The emotional roller coaster ride is normal. If you have the fortitude to step back, take a deep breath and face the situation squarely, you can’t help but grow from the challenges.

Kennedy had personal failings but he worked hard to right his path. And over his lifetime he became a better man. Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin said that he will be remembered for his strengths and his weaknesses: “There’s a great quote by Ernest Hemingway who said, everyone is broken by life but afterwards some are stronger in the broken places.”

Senator Kennedy was a study in strength sustained through struggle. You too can overcome adversity. If you’ve made mistakes, be prepared to acknowledge them and act responsibly. Don’t surrender to self pity and regret. As Kennedy often told his young son who lost his leg to cancer - keep fighting, you can do it. Tap into your spirit of resilience. And focus on your vision and the possibilities - you owe it to yourself.

(C) 2009, Her Mentor Center

Phyllis Goldberg, Ph.D. is co-founder of http://www.HerMentorCenter.com, a website for the sandwich generation, and blog, http://www.NourishingRelationships.Blogspot.com.

Recently, my friend Wendy Robbins asked me how I would advise someone who had just been faced with a difficult obstacle. For example, what if you’ve been laid off, or you’ve just had a parent die? Whatever the circumstance might be, how do you regain confidence so you can move forward again?

Well, honest to goodness, the thing I would recommend most is to keep reminding yourself of the self confidence formula, because it’s all about the truth.

This self confidence formula of five points, plus a concluding paragraph that talks about honesty and integrity, positions a person to understand what they need to do, who they need to be, and how they need to go. And it ends with a place to sign it and date it, and the specific recommendation to repeat it every single day.

Here it is ,pages 34 and 35.

“First. I know I have the ability to achieve the object of my definite purpose in life, therefore, I demand of myself persistent, continuous action toward its attainment, and I here and now promise to render such action.

“Second. I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality, therefore, I concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon thinking of the person I am becoming, creating in my mind a clear, vibrant, moving, exciting mental video of that person.

“Third. I know through the principle of auto-suggestion, any desire I persistently hold in my mind eventually seeks expression through some practical means of attaining the object back of it, therefore, I devote ten minutes daily to developing the self-confidence that empowers me to seek my largest dreams!

“Fourth. I have clearly written down a description of my definite chief aim in life, and I will never stop making it happen, even when I have developed self-confidence and the attainment of these riches.

“Fifth. I fully realize that no wealth or position can long endure, unless built upon truth and justice, therefore, I engage in no transaction, which does not benefit all whom it affects.

“I succeed by attracting to myself the forces I wish to use, and the cooperation of other people. I induce others to serve me, because of my willingness to serve others. I eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I cause others to believe in me, because I believe in them, and in myself.

“I hereby sign my name to this formula, date it, commit it to memory, and repeat it aloud daily, with full FAITH it gradually influences my thoughts and actions so I am a self-confident, self-reliant, successful person.

Signature / Date”

That’s what I recommend most-get this self-confidence formula.

Perhaps the first several times you read through it, it won’t be all there for you, but it will come if you keep after it and repeat it every day, every day, every every day! You should memorize it.

Sure, I know it’s longer than what most adults are accustomed to memorizing. Well, you, my friend, are not like most adult persons-you’re a person who has taken on a definite chief aim in life, with the specific intent to make the world better and to profit at a level that you set up in return.

Obviously you’re willing to do stuff that normal people, average people, won’t and don’t do.

And profit like few others do.

When I told Wendy that, she said,

“Hmmmm. I’ve got a good smile on, because you’re completely right-and it makes so much sense to just go back to that. Because when you said that, it was like it was solid, it was definite, it was commanding the universe, really, to work with you to make it happen. And that nothing could stop you.

“I mean, when you were saying that, I was like, ‘Wow, woohoo!’”

A leader in the human potential movement, Ted Ciuba, writes and presents on
harnessing that “HoloMagic c2 Factor” to acquire wealth. He presents a specific
13 point formula which works every time in his best-selling *The NEW Think and
Grow Rich*. The book and other bonus learning aids can be found at
http://www.HoloMagic.com

What do you do when you’re in what you perceive to be a bad situation? Well, of course there are a number of different strategies you can use. Number one, reframe it; make it a challenge, make it an opportunity, make it something that in fact grows you and betters you and moves you further in your quest for your definite chief aim, or your contribution to society and humanity.

Such as this, for instance. You’ve known marketers who’ve done this, and you know that I’ve done it before. And if you don’t know me that well, you might just take hold of this and believe that I would.

If something “bad” happens to me (and I use that term very loosely when it applies to me), when I face a setback or something that appears to be a setback, immediately I go to work converting it into a benefit.

And really, it will be a benefit, because I learned something. But another way it might be a benefit for me is that I might just talk about it in an article or a broadcast. I’m going to convert into some teaching instance what I learned at that time. All it really is is the old, old story of taking lemons and making lemonade.

When you have lemons, you make lemonade.

So, it’s easy just to reframe what you’ve got-but also, here’s another thing. Do a reality check. In this current economic crisis, this depression that is upon us, I hear people talking-and those people are worried. But you know what? Most of them still have their income.

I’m not saying they haven’t done some belt tightening, but there’s income today, so what are they worried about? Well, they’re worried about all these projections for tomorrow.

Now, if you’ve lost your job, of course, I’m not trying to make light of it. But you know, when they count the million people who have lost their jobs, that’s hundreds of millions who are still employed.

I’m no dummy, and you’re not either. When you go out to the market to get something you need-depending on your budget, where that might be may differ-the market is full, it’s bustling, people are employed, people are buying stuff. Same thing at Wal-Mart, same thing when you go out on the street.

I hear people saying that they’re taking half the price that they used to get to haul a load right now, but the streets and the roads of America are full and still congested.

So, do a reality check. How bad is it really? Are you really bad off? Now, if, for instance, you were at a point where you were considering that you needed to go bankrupt, well, of course, that might be a crisis in your life. I’m not saying it wouldn’t be, although I know a lot of people who’ve said that was an eye-opening experience.

But for most of us, most of the time, things are not that critical. We’re worrying about what might be We’re worrying about the consequences of a chain of dominos which has not played out yet, and which we’ve got a part to co-create in. We’ve got our own opportunities to do stuff-for instance, if you see it coming on your job, why hang around?

Why don’t you get active and do something? Be proactive rather than reactive.

So, when you’re wondering how to make it-re-frame, do a reality check, and then of course go back into action, recreating.

A leader in the human potential movement, Ted Ciuba, writes and presents on
harnessing that “HoloMagic c2 Factor” to acquire wealth. He presents a specific
13 point formula which works every time in his best-selling *The NEW Think and
Grow Rich*. The book and other bonus learning aids can be found at
http://www.HoloMagic.com

Pain may sometimes be the reason why people change. Getting flunked grades make us realize that we need to study. Debts remind us of our inability to look for a source of income. Being humiliated gives us the “push” to speak up and fight for ourselves to save our face from the next embarrassments. It may be a bitter experience, a friend’s tragic story, a great movie, or an inspiring book that will help us get up and get just the right amount of motivation we need in order to improve ourselves.

With the countless negativities the world brings about, how do we keep motivated? Try on the tips I prepared from A to Z!

A - Achieve your dreams. Avoid negative people, things and places. Eleanor Roosevelt once said, “the future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

B - Believe in your self, and in what you can do.

C - Consider things on every angle and aspect. Motivation comes from determination. To be able to understand life, you should feel the sun from both sides.

D - Don’t give up and don’t give in. Thomas Edison failed once, twice, more than thrice before he came up with his invention and perfected the incandescent light bulb. Make motivation as your steering wheel.

E - Enjoy. Work as if you don’t need money. Dance as if nobody’s watching. Love as if you never cried. Learn as if you’ll live forever. Motivation takes place when people are happy.

F - Family and Friends are life’s greatest treasures. Don’t loose sight of them.

G - Give more than what is enough. Where does motivation and self improvement take place at work? At home? At school? When you exert extra effort in doing things.

H - Hang on to your dreams. They may dangle in there for a moment, but these little stars will be your driving force.

I - Ignore those who try to destroy you. Don’t let other people to get the best of you. Stay out of toxic people - the kind of friends who hates to hear about your success.

J - Just be yourself. The key to success is to be yourself. And the key to failure is to try to please everyone.

K - keep trying no matter how hard life may seem. When a person is motivated, eventually he sees a harsh life finally clearing out, paving the way to self improvement.

L - Learn to love your self. Now isn’t that easy?

M -Make things happen. Motivation is when your dreams are put into work clothes.

N - Never lie, cheat or steal. Always play a fair game.

O - Open your eyes. People should learn the horse attitude and horse sense. They see things in 2 ways - how they want things to be, and how they should be.

P - Practice makes perfect. Practice is about motivation. It lets us learn repertoire and ways on how can we recover from our mistakes.

Q - Quitters never win. And winners never quit. So, choose your fate - are you going to be a quitter? Or a winner?

R - Ready yourself. Motivation is also about preparation. We must hear the little voice within us telling us to get started before others will get on their feet and try to push us around. Remember, it wasn’t raining when Noah build the ark.

S - Stop procrastinating.

T - Take control of your life. Discipline or self control jives synonymously with motivation. Both are key factors in self improvement.

U - Understand others. If you know very well how to talk, you should also learn how to listen. Yearn to understand first, and to be understood the second.

V - Visualize it. Motivation without vision is like a boat on a dry land.

W - Want it more than anything. Dreaming means believing. And to believe is something that is rooted out from the roots of motivation and self improvement.

X - X Factor is what will make you different from the others. When you are motivated, you tend to put on “extras” on your life like extra time for family, extra help at work, extra care for friends, and so on.

Y - You are unique. No one in this world looks, acts, or talks like you. Value your life and existence, because you’re just going to spend it once.

Z - Zero in on your dreams and go for it!!!

This article is written by Brian Jones. Brian is a blogger who has also written these articles:- You Must Convince Yourself to be Happy and Do The Right Thing

Everywhere I go I’m getting people asking me, “How do I hold the right state of mind to manifest, to create, to demonstrate the results that I want?” And bravo! I couldn’t put the question better. That’s how you want to ask it.

Here’s where the challenge comes in. A lot of times-we all understand this-when people want more, they may be coming from a place of lack.

That may or may not be your circumstance-we’re talking in the abstract-but when a person is coming from the place of lack, it really is very difficult to have the state of acceptance and gratitude that you need to have. Because you put yourself there and you receive-you be what you want to receive.

You need to have faith-believe that you have received, and you will. “Okay,” people ask, “how do I believe that I have received?” The unspoken part of the question is, “when I obviously haven’t?”

Well, there are a lot of different ways to say it, and some of these you’ve heard. You’ve got to act as if you have received. Act as if you do have the capacity to deliver on the prospect or the concept, or on the contract that you’re negotiating. You’ve got to pretend to intend.

Pretend to intend, or when you intend, you pretend. Either way you do it, it’s Catch-22, fake it ’til you make it.

You put yourself in that position where you will perform, and then it doesn’t matter that you were faking it-as in you’ve never, for instance, done a real estate transaction or done a deal this way, or spoken at a public event. Whatever it is, you put yourself in a position where you will do it.

You’ve got to think right to get it right. You’ve got to see it first, you’ve got to live it first, you’ve got to be prepared, you’ve got to know what it is first to receive it. That’s the reason why we place so much importance on making your goals and your visualizations and your affirmations present tense-so you get into it and dig in like it’s real.

Because your subconscious only knows the present tense-what it feels is real. It’s going to accept that as the dominating command to create that life.

If you are taking time every single day to intend-remember, pretend to intend, meditation, create the active in this thing, be a causative force. Pretend to intend. Sit with what you are in the future, feel the feelings, move with the motions, do what it takes, live the life, feel the ecstasy.

Enjoy it, because the subconscious is always going to give you more of whatever’s in your mind. If you don’t change your thought habits, you’re going to continue to get what you’ve always gotten. You’ve got to change if you haven’t received what you want yet.

And this is what I wish for you. Play with this. It’s not a simple concept, it’s not an easy concept, but you must act as if.

A leader in the human potential movement, Ted Ciuba, writes and presents on
harnessing that “HoloMagic c2 Factor” to acquire wealth. He presents a specific
13 point formula which works every time in his best-selling *The NEW Think and
Grow Rich*. The book and other bonus learning aids can be found at
http://www.HoloMagic.com

When you avail yourself of the law of attraction, you can solve any problem, step out of any dilemma, and resolve any conflict.

This law is invincible. It can easily cut through any Gordian knot. What is infuriating and baffling to your mind, it considers child’s play.

It can be evoked in many ways. It can be an intention set. It can be a practice such as visualization, affirmation, or creating a vision board. It can be a heart-felt prayer.

Ultimately, the law of attraction is an expression of consciousness itself.

When you call upon it, you realize the presence of an unsullied and pure consciousness within you that is omnipotent. It has not been affected in the least by all the troubles of your life. It is undismayed by the consistency of your errors. It stands ever willing to help you. It is the epitome of love and consideration.

Your limitations are not its limitations. Your imaging of what is possible are not its shortcomings.

In any situation you find yourself in, it is possible to avail yourself of this force. Once you do, you have to let go of how your solution will manifest.

Clinging to an outcome, clinging to your imagined sense of control, will prevent it from acting as surely as a dam wall can hold back the mighty lake.

The solution, when it comes, is always a surprise, and, ironically, it shows up in a very natural and easy way.

This universal law is the spiritual power within and around you. How you address it is a matter of personal preference.

What is important is that you ask for what you want rather than suppress it.

Therefore, choosing to align with the law of attraction is also choosing to align with the spiritual path.

Those who are ill in mind or body and have tried all the conventional cures and nothing works will benefit from the law. If they ask, they will receive.

Those who have a social problem and are in the wrong relationship, keeping company with those who bring out their worst will benefit from the law.

Those who are unable to earn enough money to meet their needs will benefit from the law.

Those who understand that the spiritual path is of supreme value, seeking a deeper understanding of their own real nature will benefit from the law.

If you visualize and affirm, you will manifest what you desire. If you pray, your prayers will be answered.

However you address the law of attraction, it will respond to you.

However you comprehend the law of attraction of the universe, it will reveal itself to you.

When you open yourself up to it, it will guide you; it will be your friend, your ally, your protector, and your supporter.

All you have to do is ask and be open to receive and everything in your life will fall perfectly into place. It is your best friend.

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There are many ways to reach your spiritual center. One way is through guided or unguided meditation. Guided meditation involves listening to a live or recorded person guiding you through your meditation. This can also be done alone or in groups. You may have the aid of nature, sounds, incense, chanting, the soothing voice of the leader, and a variety of other elements.

Unguided meditation involves just you. You may have a dialogue with your inner voice, repeat a mantra, focus on an issue, visualize something, or otherwise dwell on something to achieve some goal on your own. Unguided meditation can also involve getting into a meditative state and being open to whatever comes into your mind. You may wish to focus on it or let it go. It’s your meditation and you can run the ’show’ any way you wish!

Another way to reach your spiritual center is through personal and psychological development. Ridding yourself of negative emotions, habits and tendencies is a liberating pursuit that automatically brings you to a higher spiritual center. The very desire to self improve shows a spiritually elevated consciousness. This can be attained through self-improvement tapes, seminars, therapy, mediation, self-scrutiny and a host of other methods to examine yourself. I won’t go as far as Socrates who said, ‘the unexamined life is not worth living’. But suffice it to say that by examining our motives, habits, traits, characteristics, thoughts, etc., we definitely elevate our consciousness from being actors on life’s stage to at least attempting to be directors of our lives.

An important way to attain our spiritual center is to become more aware of ourselves in the present moment. Living in the now, in the moment, is very powerful. When we are really present in the moment, we are at our greatest power, as all of our resources are focused like a laser on the moment in which we find ourselves. The power of now is acknowledged to be when we are our most happy, fulfilled, focused, motivated, alert and otherwise alive. Thinking about the past or future has their role in our lives. But there is nothing that can be done to change the past, and the future is also inscrutable. How you handle the many ‘now’s’ will in large part determine our future. So focusing our attention on the now helps us on our journey towards a spiritual center.

Irwin Myers is the president of Wellness Engine, a company this is dedicated to teaching wellness through multimedia. Our first production is Psychic Smarts. Visit our website at http://psychicsmarts.com and our blog at http://psychicsmarts.com/blog

Get outside your comfort zone. Yes, we say that again and again, and yes, you need to hear that again and again-as, by the way, do I. We all have a comfort zone-and even if it expands, we still have a comfort zone. Every desire, dream, and ambition that you have not realized lies outside that comfort zone.

Everything that you have is within that comfort zone. And as human animals-really, I say human animals, but pretty much it’s the same with all animals, as far as we can observe-you need to exercise your divinity. And your divinity, not being a regular animal, is that you have got the soul of God inside of you.

You have got a spirit, what we call in The NEW Think and Grow Rich philosophy the Inner Eagle.

Outer circumstances are subservient to you, if you choose to push, if you choose to decide, if you choose to follow through, if you choose to exercise the discipline. And that’s what I’m talking to you about today. A good friend of mine, Marshall Sylver, always says-and it’s so true-You’ll either have discipline or regrets.”

We’re not talking about routine here, we’re talking about stretching.

You’ve got to get outside your comfort zone.

Why do you think there are so many people (and of course, I’m part and parcel of this) who have done extreme sports? I know that the day that I decided to jump out of an airplane I had already passed 49.9 years in my life.
I didn’t really want to jump out of an airplane-I’m talking about with a parachute-but what happened was, I was coming up on the age of 50, and you know all the cultural things about 50. I said, “Whoa! I don’t want to buy into being old, I’ve got to buy into being excited, motivated, charged with life!”

And two days before my 50th birthday I saw a billboard that said, “You’re only as big as your biggest fear.”

Now, I don’t know what your profession’s like, but mine could almost be called an airplane. Or if you want to be exact, an airplane and a hotel. I mean, I work in my office, I work in my home, and that’s where I do very deep and profound thinking. But when I’m making presentations, I’m flying to an event, normally, and I’m making a presentation at the event.

And so I think “Whoa!”

By the way, I’ve never gotten over the fear of flying. It’s okay-I’m okay to admit it-but when that billboard came up and said, “You’re only as big as your biggest fear,” bam! I said, “I’m jumping out of an airplane for my 50th birthday.”

And it worked, because previous to that I was beginning to think, and beginning to feel - cultural biases - that I might be getting old. After that, my whole electrical system was so charged it’s not even funny! I turned young again!

Whatever it is for you-in whatever dimension-get outside your comfort zone. Make it a policy, make it a pact, something that “if you can’t, you must!” to quote Tony Robbins.”

That’s what I wish for you.”

A leader in the human potential movement, Ted Ciuba, writes and presents on
harnessing that “HoloMagic c2 Factor” to acquire wealth. He presents a specific
13 point formula which works every time in his best-selling *The NEW Think and
Grow Rich*. The book and other bonus learning aids can be found at
http://www.HoloMagic.com

Spiritual Centering is key to real satisfaction and happiness. We can withstand almost anything if we’re spiritually centered. Yes, we do need to eat, have clothes on our backs and shelter. But once achieved, and our survival necessities have been met, we can turn to higher level needs and desires. According to Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human needs, once survival needs are met, we as human beings have evolved to look to fulfilling higher level needs. We have evolved to the point where that voice inside of most of us says that there is something more to life beyond accumulating possessions and other shallow and material ‘victories’. That there must be something more to life. And we all know that there is more to life than ‘the person with the most toys wins’.

Most people reading this article will likely agree that reaching one’s spiritual center is probably the highest level of existence we can attain. And this is often viewed as a solitary effort, through meditation for instance. However, we can also touch our spiritual center through acts of generosity, of giving of oneself to others. Both are higher level traits and are in some ways exclusive of each other and in other ways, have elements of the other.

This is not an academic discussion, as what I’m trying to say is that you can reach a spiritual center by turning your attention within, and by directing your love outwards to others. Another way of saying this is that our spiritual center can be reached through meditation and by good deeds to others. One is more self-orieinted and the other is more selfless, although like the yin/yang symbol, there’s a bit of each in both approaches.

Meditation, though ultimately a solitary endeavor, can involve doing it in groups and meditating on issues involving others. If it’s guided meditation, it involves at least another person who is guiding it. Even if it’s unguided, others are generally involved in your thoughts.

Concerning giving of your time and energy to others, which seems like an entirely selfless act, the fact that it makes you feel good to give and reveals the self to be very involved in this activity. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s just important to recognize that very few things are 100% and that even giving of yourself to others has some self in it. I would go as far as to say that you should get something out of your giving. Otherwise, it’s probably done out of obligation, necessity, guilt or some other ‘non-positive’ reason.

But the bottom line is that meditation, guided or unguided, and giving of oneself to others are the best ways to reach your spiritual center.

Irwin Myers is the president of Wellness Engine, a company this is dedicated to teaching wellness through multimedia. Our first production is Psychic Smarts. Visit our website at http://psychicsmarts.com and our blog at http://psychicsmarts.com/blog

As golfers, we all want to improve. We are interested in the latest golf magazines, we buy DVD’s, read books and are always willing to try the latest tip handed down from one of our golfing buddies. Golfers in general are always “tinkering” with their swings.
Most of the time though, what is the end result? Maybe a few good shots but in the end, we are right back where we started.

When we want to learn something or get better at a certain task, there are three steps we must take in order to achieve what we want. We call this an “IMPROVEMENT CYCLE”.

STEP 1. Assessment: what do I need to work on?
STEP 2. Set realistic goals and AN APPROPRIATE TIMEFRAME
STEP 3. Carry out drills/practice that are specifically aimed at improving that part of your game.

By contrast most of us base our practice on what is know as the “REACTIVE CYCLE.” It works like this:

STEP 1. You’re practicing or on the course and hit a poor shot-perhaps a slice or a fat shot.

STEP 2. You react to this poor shot by trying something different on your next shot, in hope of correcting your problem. This is where that magazine tip or advice from a friend come in handy.

STEP 3. Your results may be short lived and you will likely repeat this cycle over and over. Golfers in general tend to practice like this all the time and fail to achieve anything like their true potential.

We have a new year approaching, let’s improve in 2009. Using one month as an appropriate time frame, let’s make an assessment of your game, set some goals and start improving.

In theory, a golfer using one month improvement cycles would be able to complete 12 improvement cycles per year- each improving a specific part of your game. There is no reason why your game should not improve dramatically over the next 12 months.

The golf swing can sometimes take this long to improve, your swing has to evolve for it to become natural and for your body to recognize this. I hope you can really persist with this. Some professionals practice something for 7 months before it becomes natural. Another good thing to remember in Golf is once is luck, twice is a fluke, three times means its fixed.

Really hope your swing improves and you start playing some great golf - Good luck!

Dave Smith is the Digital Marketing Manager http://www.GolfBallBusters.com