Welcome to the Jim Fannin Show!  This week’s episode is about the Teeter Totter Effect™ and how to reset your 2019 performance to a championship level.

His putting was amazing.  Everything that he rolled found the cup.  If he could only have more opportunities, but his iron play was off.  He either pulled it or pushed it and his accuracy was inconsistent and unpredictable.  Fast forward one week…“My iron play has come around,” he gloated.  I’m striping it! I just wish I could buy a putt.”  The Teeter-Totter Effect™ has arrived.

This up and down, on again and off again performance is prevalent in life, business, and sports.  Fix your marriage…struggle with parenting.  Fix your finances…can’t fit into your pants because you’ve gained an extra 15 pounds.  How do you fix the inconsistencies?  How do you quell the wild fluctuations in your life?

Welcome to the Teeter-Totter Effect™

When you are focused on one thing, it’s easy to forget something else.  Focus on your swing and you don’t focus on your stance.  Focus on your forehand and you forget to pay attention to your serve.  The Teeter-Totter Effect™ is normal.  It happens to everyone.  It is commonplace.

When you focus on one aspect of your life, golf game or business, remind yourself to still remain positive about the items that don’t have your full attention.  Refuse to put them down.  Don’t talk about them as if they are real living things.  “My swing is letting me down,” I recently heard from a client.  Really?  You are letting you down!

Eliminate negativity when any part of your sport, business or life suffers from your lack of intention or neglect.  Avoid negative thoughts and statements when things don’t meet your expectations.

The champion works on all parts of his or her life, business or sport.  The difference is they remain steadfast in holistically seeing the sum of their parts as the best.  Weaknesses are not weaknesses.  They are areas of growth.  They are challenges that inspire the champion in thinking and acting positive.

To combat the Teeter-Totter Effect™ extreme positivity must be in force.  Have no thoughts of being a victim or a judge.  And it ‘s the irate and disappointed judge in you that disrupts the playground with a mental sledgehammer to the low end of the teeter-totter.

Balance is the key to a successful life.  Thought equilibrium will keep you at a high daily standard and from here it’s a short hop away to a peak performance Zone state.

Recently, a young golfer was riding the highs and lows of the Teeter-Totter Effect™.  He pledged he would start selling himself on the awesomeness of himself.  Five days and nights in a row his positive self-talk was exemplary.  He was the poster guy for positive belief and expectancy.  When a part of his game was down, he pictured it up.  Relentless was his positivity!  Results of 67-66-72 arrived and victory was his reward.

How do you escape from the positive-negative Teeter-Totter Effect™?  Create your daily standard or your individual performance standard?   This is a minimum requirement for a satisfactory performance, according to you.

It’s been about a little over nine months since you set your annual vision and goals for 2019.  How are you doing?  Do you stay the course?  What do you adjust? Do some of your challenges keep you up at night? Is it time for a reset?

In the month of October four people told me in different ways, “I’m at a dead end!”  Each spoke of their job, relationship, parenting, family, health or life in general.  This is a doom and gloom thought and self-fulfilling prophecy about one’s plight.  Each person needs a reset.

What’s going on? Where’s the positive, upbeat spirit? Before the year is over, consider a “reset” for your business, family, wellness, or significant other. Today marks the start of your sprint to close Q4 strong.