Monday, January 30, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Best Can Handle the Misses
Recently I have been going through a negative mental rut.
Perhaps it is because graduation looms ahead and I am not sure where my next step is going to be taken. It is the uncertainty that scares me the most, honestly.
But I can not let it get the best of me. For the past four weeks, I, unfortunately, let it get the best of me.
But I go back to one of my favorite past times to learn a lesson.
Let's take a chapter out of the golf career of Phil Mickelson.
How tough it must have been for "Lefty" to continue to play golf after getting so close to garnering a major championship from 1999-2003. Mickelson, in all four golf majors combined in those years (The Masters, The Open Championship, The U.S. Open and The PGA Championship), finished in the top 10 a whopping seventeen times without breaking through to win a major.
Until the 2004 Masters.
Phil finally got the monkey off his back and sank a birdie putt to win the tournament on the 18th green at Augusta National. Divine intervention? Pure talent? Taking care of unfinished business?
Call it what you want, but Phil Mickelson never quit. He never gave in to his own negative thinking.
And neither should we. When the going gets tough, keep on pushing through. Keep trying to get better.
And when we do that, we'll start seeing results, even though they may not be immediate.
Since then, Phil has four major championships to his credit. Three of those have been at The Masters.
All because Phil never gave in to his negative thoughts.
Neither should we.
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