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What is it about golf and leadership and life? Why are they all so intertwined? It's a game of focus more than fortitude … pace more than exertion. A game with wave-like emotions rising and falling like the ebb and flow of the tide. A game where each part of your mind, body, and soul are stretched in their own way.
It's a game of endless learning … and so too is life.
Self-awareness can be helpful through knowing yourself better to lead yourself better. It's in aligning conscious and subconscious realities to produce health through a life of integrity and alignment.
In understanding that self-awareness as a worthy endeavor that is both practical and attainable, we also need to address the process that makes it actionable.
Inner Dialogue—It’s over.… your life, that is. Well, at least it seems that way. It definitely feels that way. But you are still breathing and consciously aware of these thoughts. Yet, somehow, it all seems surreal, almost as if real life isn’t that real.
How did you get to here? How did you manage to come to this dead-end? And why?
When was the last time you thought about a breath you took?
If I had to take a guess, it wouldn’t be a moment in recent memory. And to be honest, that really is a good thing in many ways. This is beneficial because it frees up our mind and our energy to be fully invested in our other pursuits, activities, or tasks in day-to-day life.
What is true mastery? And how does one achieve it? It is safe to say these questions have been asked and pursued for as long as competitive sports or competitive careers have been around. Countless books have been written on this topic, each giving their own take on what this "formula" might be.
Now it's my turn.
"30 hours ... that's it. You can do this ... Okay, it's going to be tough, but really, you can do this. 'Pain is weakness leaving the body.' 'No pain no gain.'" — Inner dialogue from my brain
