Like golf, the body is a game of opposites

Could you be tired because you drink too much coffee?

Could you fancy eating junk food because you’re not hungry?

Could you be putting on weight because you are eating too little?

I’m gonna have you consider that your body like golf works on a game of opposites.

The opposites in golf like you hit down to make the ball go up.

But the same can happen with the body, the more coffee you’re drinking the more tired you can feel (due to you not getting a deep enough sleep).

You need to eat more of the good stuff (the good stuff for you) to reduce hunger and lose weight.

The reason why you crave the junk food more often than not has less to do with hunger and more to do with reducing stress by avoiding the underlining issues and distracting yourself from whatever stress you are dealing with.

Yet the thing is, that can actually lead to more stress and you now feel tired, lazy and lethargic needing more coffee, which in turn reduces the effects of coffee as you have built up a tolerance to caffeine needing more and more to get the energy from it that you used too.

This is all borrowed energy, and you have to pay it back at some point.

So why not eat the foods your body needs for breakfast and lunch so that you are full of energy when you need it, have a cut-off point of caffein so that it's out of your system by the time you go to bed.

Start seeing food as a fuel that powers your body to be better, have more energy to play better, work better and make more money for your business, and if you need to eat the junk food, do it at the end of the day with your feet up watching The Arsenal’s newest defensive shit show.

This is why a plan like what we have in the GolfMob can be so powerful, as it's so simple and gives you more results than just in your body.

Anyway...

The chunky link is here.

https://www.johnseton.com/golfmobonline 

John Seton

Dog on a dodgy plane.

One week ago today, I took a dog on a plane as hand luggage.

Yep, I was that guy...

It started at Gatwick, checking in my luggage, and then going to a till to pay for my extra piece of carry-on (this was the dog if you hadn't guessed).

I didn't know the protocol until I got there.

You see what happens is you hand the dog over to customs, go through customs yourself (separately) grab a coffee and then they hand him back to you at the gate.

Sounds simple doesn't it, that was the plan.

And from the outset that would have been fine, simple and pain-free.

But thing’s are never that simple are they, plans change (or get changed for you)

As soon as the gate number came up I made my way there expecting Baxter (the new member of the family) to be waiting for me, with me just needing to go to the gate and say “I’m the fella with the dog”

When I get there I get told “Ok wait over there” and she signaled to where people hover to charge their phones “and someone will come and get you when he's here”

First call for passengers, the second call for passengers, last call for passages.

Now I’m the last person here and still no dog. I make my way over there and say.

“any news on the dog”

Gate lady “Oh... no-one has brought him up have they, that's odd”.

Then the radio comes out, the call, the reply with no idea whats going on.

Final call now for all passengers, and the gate is empty, fear slowly starts to build up (what if’s,) the vision of the original plan of surprising the kids with the dog now turn to an image of front-page news saying.

“Gatwick lost my dog”

But no need to panic, some ascension and then the call that he's waiting at the door of the plane for the absent owner.

Fast forward, seated, the dog between my feet with my flight off to Madrid, change and then to Alicante.

That next plane is cool, I have two seats and then before take off, there is info from the pilot in Spanish, but the groans gave me a clue.

A technical fault on the plane and they need to get us another one.

Buses come, load us off and on to another plane.

Then lucky enough my pal picked me up and took me home to surprise the kids at the end of a very long day.

Now the point is, there is always a way, it may not be comfortable or even feel like the best way, but there is ALWAYS a way to get you to where you need to go.

To do that you need a plan, and that plan may not be perfect, you may go off course, but you course correct, stay consistent, don’t have a meltdown and you will get what you are after, you will get to your destination,

So sack up, chin up, shoulders back, follow the blueprint and just do the simple work required, one step after the other to get you where you want to go.

If you want the starting blueprint for Fat loss for golfers it’s here:

https://www.johnseton.com/golfmobonline 

John Seton

Sack The Driver.

The Arsenal’s recent sacking of their manager has some parallels to how most golfer’s look at changing their game.

You see by giving him the chop (after saying he is their man) it’s like the golfer who’s struggling on the course and try’s to change his game with a new purchase like a new driver.

But in truth, the decline of the team happened towards the end of last season (much like the decline in your golf or your body doesn't happen overnight).

How?

Ok some context, the thinking is that “the manager” like “the driver” is at fault for all the problems.

It can’t be though, can it? The manager doesn't play and the golfer doesn't hit every shot with the driver. (however, that is something I would like to see)

It’s just one piece of a very big puzzle.

It was the decline towards the end of last season which caused a lack of confidence in themselves and as a team.

Replacing the manager is just the start and it won’t be a quick fix, just like buying a new driver won’t solve the golfer's problems.

You still need to get used to hitting it, you still need to trust it when you have a tight shot or just blew up on the last hole.

Confidence comes from the compound effect, it takes time to build up, stacking on top of the previous actions and results.

Reps, followed by good experiences followed by more reps.

Taking a large complex situation and breaking it down into smaller chunks, working on those smaller chunks to help you build towards a long term target.

This is what arsenal will be doing now,

training,

testing,

building confidence,

getting results, reps followed by good experiences followed by more reps, all strategically set to put them on course to the long term target, whatever that may be.

Big progress one day and other days it will feel like nothings happening.

But the compound effect of the daily actions, building to that long term vision, is what it takes to get anyone where they want to go.

Either way, you learn something.

At Arsenal, it will be what’s needed to gain confidence back in themselves or as a team.

In golf it might be a lesson on that new driver or, just more block and random practice with a little less play.

In golf fitness, it could be having the confidence to go again tomorrow with the consistency that you had today, or the ability to course-correct with the next daily target when you’ve had a nightmare day and want to quit and burn the whole thing to the farking ground.

Anyway, I can’t help Arsenal win, I can’t even sell you a new driver but I can change how you get better results in your body and change what you think is possible.

But a warning, this is not for pussies, you don’t have to be fit but it is hard work...

If you do not value hard work this is DEFINITELY not for you.

If you want to put it off until you are ready this is not for you.

If you want to continue blaming everything and everyone else for the way things are THEN this is not for you.

However, if you are currently fed up with:

the way you feel,

how you show up with energy and confidence daily

then this IS for you.

Because only then will you be willing to do what it takes when you don’t feel like it.

An easy way to do that is to have a daily plan that you can stick to on your worst day, one that's simple and isn't a waste of yours or anyone else’s time.

And we do that here... https://www.johnseton.com/golfmobonline

How the FBI can help your golf.

Jim Camp was considered the world's best negotiator, so much so that the FBI changed their whole way of negotiating because of his "NO" system.

His system has many parts but is focused on a few foundational principles.

One of them is his "Vision Drives Decision" principle...

The fact, that people make decisions based on what they see and feel.

Marketers have being doing this for years and know that people buy stuff based on emotion and back that decision up with logic.

Think about the old washing powder adverts getting you to see what's possible for you if you buy their product versus the leading unnamed brand (which your mind feels in who it is).

When you apply this principle to the news, your news feed and WhatsApp videos sent to your phone these visions can help persuade you to make decisions.

wether those decisions are things you want like cutting something out or you don't want like sedating with whatever you use as a coping mechanism for stress.

So this same FBI system can help explain why we sometimes make stupid decisions on the golf course.

You know the ones.

I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the trees, with a poor lie, surrounded by bushes, stumps, leaves, twigs, branches, squirrels and big old trees that resemble something out of first blood. (part 1 obviously)

But what happens is there is a tiny gap that looks straight to the green, a vision of hitting a worldy, talking about it in the bar, telling anyone that would listen,

And then comes the decision to hit it, against all better judgment, and what follows is normally a lot of ricocheting, ducking and swearing.

We can use vision to make decisions to get the results we need,

And that comes with getting clear on what you WANT and WHY and taking the simple daily actions needed to get us where we want to go.

And with building a better body for golf.

It's here

https://www.johnseton.com/golfmobonline

This Is Fargin War

Not sure if you’ve ever seen the film Johnny dangerously, but it’s kind of a naked gun gangster type film set in the ’30s

It’s about a young guy named Johnny dangerously (did you see that one coming) who had to turn to crime to pay for his Ma’s medical bills. 

However, what it is most remembered for is one of the mob bosses who has a very thick accent that restricts his ability to speak English correctly. 

Some of he’s hilarious sayings are:

“This is fargin war”

“You fargin sneaky barstage”

“You’ll wind up with your bells in a sling”

And “Why you miserable cork-soaker”

The reason I bring this up is when I got off the plane at Gatwick the only thought that entered my head was “this is fargin cold”… And got thinking this is probably what it sounds like when trying to speak Spanish. 

I bet I sound like this guy, butchering the words and phrases, and it being funny to those that hear it. With a accent that doesn't pronounce the "h" sound in any words like "elicopter" "Bloody ell" "ello" (for the record the "J" is pronounced with a "H" sound and I still don't do that). I don't even pronounce the "T" in my own name. 

But with that being said, nothing gets better without practice, and I suppose if anyone would have had the "bells" to subtly correct the mob boss, on his new language, he would have been able to course correct and slowly get better. 

That being said, that’s pretty much all anyone needs to get results, 

1. The "bells" to take action,

2. The ability to course correct, when off-track,

3. The "bells" to try again when there has been some failure.

I’m not sure how many times you've tried to get what you want in golf and in fitness, or if you think that you can't do the work, or that it won’t work, but what if the reason was you just….

Wasn't fargin trying hard enough,

What if you just needed some other barstages to refocus you and give you that little nudge back on track.

What if everything you wanted was just one more try away. 

If you think that coming up to Xmas is the time to slow down, then maybe that’s because that is what everyone else is doing. 

If you want to be better and are tired of the sheesh you put your body through then maybe the online golf mob is for you.  

I will tell you this though, 

If you are selected "this is fargin war", but it’s a war that is worth fighting and winning. 

And you can win it in under a month.  

Anyway, wanna know more, then take a look at this 

https://www.johnseton.com/golfmobonline 

John Seton