Do not wait to work on your mental skills when the season kick off, or before your first tournament. You do not have to have a club in your hand to work on mental skills that will benefit your golf game. 

There are 6 different mental skills to practice in the off season which include: 

• spotting negative thinking, 
• pivoting from negative emotions, 
• refraining from arguing with reality, 
• setting daily intentions, 
• practicing decision-making, and 
• enhancing mindfulness. 

Don’t wait…listen to this episode to hear examples of where to get started today building your mental skills so you are ready to go when the season starts. 

00:38 Improving Your Mental Game in Golf

01:06 Listener Shoutout

01:33 Six Ways to Build Mental Skills in Golf

03:29 Spotting and Reducing Negativity

04:52 Pivoting Away from Negative Emotions

06:16 Avoiding Arguments with Reality

07:18 Setting Intentions

08:52 Practicing Decision Making

10:07 Practicing Mindfulness

12:03 Conclusion and Invitation to Join Email List

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Do you just wish you could trust your swing? Trust your green reading? Trust your club selections?

Sometimes you can get annoyed with yourself after a poor swing and snap, "just trust it!"

If this sounds familiar, this episode is for you.

Kathy talks about what you CAN trust in golf and your swing.
She shares how you break trust and how you build trust.

It starts off the course.  You build it in your every day life. And then you apply it to your golf.

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In this episode, Kathy discusses the importance of surrounding yourself with the right people in order to improve your golf game. She emphasizes focusing on the mental part of the game, playing golf with people who have a positive impact, and the negative effects of surrounding oneself with negative individuals. 

Kathy further elaborates the importance of playing golf with better and confident players to learn and grow. She also stresses on practicing with focused individuals with good habits and skills. 

Moreover, she advises minimizing the amount of time spent with individuals who have a negative impact on one's golf game.

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00:00 Introduction and Importance of Mental Game

00:21 Choosing the Right Golfing Companions

00:52 The Impact of Negativity on Your Game

01:43 Playing with Better Golfers: A Personal Experience

02:44 The Benefits of Playing with Better Players

03:09 Overcoming Self-Doubt and Embracing Challenges

05:11 Playing with Confident Golfers

06:27 Learning from Good Practice Habits

07:55 Avoiding Negative Influences

09:51 Conclusion: Integrating Positive Influences into Your Game

10:14 Closing Remarks and Invitation to Join Email List

In this podcast episode, Kathy explores the importance of mental strength when it comes to golf and even life in general. She discusses seven essential traits to build a strong mental game: awareness, vulnerability, consistency, dedication, resilience, grace and having support from a coach or a community. These traits can notably influence how well you perform on the golf course and how you manage real-life challenges. Kathy also encourages listeners to ponder which of these traits they might be lacking in and where they may need support in order to improve further.

If you looking to improve your mental game and take your golf game to the next level, make sure you listen to this episode.

00:29 Introduction and Welcome

00:48 The Importance of Mental Strength in Golf

02:44 The Challenges of Building Mental Strength

03:05 Seven Traits for a Strong Mental Game

07:58 The Role of a Coach or Community in Building Mental Strength

09:39 Conclusion and Invitation to Join the Community

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This is an interview of Kathy as a guest of the Wicked Smart Golf Podcast with Michael Leonard. 

In this episode ,she emphasizes the importance of managing your brain to improve performance. 

She also explains how to shift from negative self-talk to a positive mindset, how to practice mind management, and why one should believe in themselves before seeing results. 

She suggests that off-season golfers should focus on managing their mind, developing awareness of their self-dialogue, and minimizing negative thoughts.

You don’t want to miss this episode as there is such a great variety of valuable content that you are assured to relate to.

00:00 Introduction and Guest Background

00:41 Guest's Journey into Golf

04:34 Transition from Player to Coach

05:29 Challenges in Teaching Golf

08:49 Incorporating Mental Aspects into Coaching

13:22 Applying Life Skills to Golf

18:27 Managing Emotions on the Golf Course

21:29 Understanding Frustration and Anger in Golf

23:06 Dealing with Frustration on the Golf Course

23:44 Processing Emotions and Managing Stress

24:25 Expectation Management in Golf

25:00 Reality of Professional Golf vs. Perception

25:28 The Importance of Asking Powerful Questions

26:43 Managing Expectations and Performance

28:17 The Impact of Attitude on Performance

29:26 The Role of Confidence in Golf

29:33 The Challenges of Tournament Golf

31:56 Dealing with Pressure and Opinions of Others

44:46 Improving Your Mental Game in the Off-Season

47:10 Final Thoughts and Recommendations

Make sure to check out Wicked Smart Golf on one of the links below: 

• Spotify
• YouTube 
• Apple Podcasts

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In this episode, Kathy encourages you to kickstart the new year by exploring how golf and life are inextricably intertwined and how they affect each other.

By exploring how time, money, relationships, and emotions invested in golf affect other areas of life, and vice versa, listeners can gain insights on the balance they currently have.
Kathy lays emphasis on the need to manage thoughts and emotions intentionally and also highlights how our personality traits show up in our golf game and in our everyday life.

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00:28 Introduction and New Year Wishes

00:47 The Connection Between Golf and Life

01:20 The Impact of Golf on Your Life

02:37 How Golf Affects Your Relationships and Social Life

02:57 The Positive and Negative Impacts of Golf

04:02 Personality Traits That Affect Your Golf Game

05:15 The Role of Perfectionism in Golf

06:00 The Impact of Life Events on Your Golf Game

08:46 The Importance of Self-Talk in Golf

09:53 The Role of Golf in Your Life

11:22 Conclusion and Invitation to Join the Academy

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Jeff Mocini discusses an iPhone/iPad app called Slope Graide for putting. 
Slope Grade trains users on all aspects of putting, including start line, speed on different grade speeds to green reading, and visualization of break .

The app dynamically creates topographic models of greens aided by the LiDAR scanner in Pro and Pro Max devices, enabling a better understanding of the slope and roll. 

To tackle time constraints during practice rounds, the app has a course mode featuring green models from over 100 courses. 

Full access to the app is via a free account creation and offers a 'smartphone marker' for measuring slopes for those lacking iPhone Pro models. 

Lastly, Slope Grade aids with speed control through rollmaps, providing color-coded charts for determining the correct speed for different slopes.

Listen in as Jeff explains all the features.

00:47 Introduction to Slope Grade App

01:50 The Inspiration Behind the App

02:34 How the App Works

03:38 Overcoming Practice Round Limitations with Course Mode

05:22 Expanding the Course Database

07:19 Visualizing Success with the App

08:38 How to Access the App

09:45 Additional Tools for Non-iPhone Users

10:57 Speed Control Feature: Rollmaps

11:46 Measuring Green Speed

12:26 Where to Find More Information

13:53 Closing Thoughts

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In this episode of 'Above Par,' Kathy shares six mental shifts that improved her golf game and overall life: 

1. recognizing thoughts are optional, 
2. understanding that thoughts create emotions, 
3. realizing feeling emotions isn't a sign of weakness, 
4. comprehending discomfort leads to growth, 
5. believing in something before seeing it, and 
6. treating confidence as a skill that can be developed. 

These realizations proved pivotal, teaching her to take control of her mental state both on and off the golf course. 

She encourages listeners to pick at least one of these shifts to experiment with in order to experience positive changes in their lives and their game.

00:01 Introduction and Welcome

00:24 The Importance of Mental Shifts in Golf

01:46 First Mental Shift: Control Over Thoughts

03:21 Second Mental Shift: Emotions are Created by Thoughts

05:07 Third Mental Shift: Emotions are Not a Sign of Weakness

07:23 Fourth Mental Shift: Embracing Discomfort

08:50 Fifth Mental Shift: Believing Before Seeing

10:30 Sixth Mental Shift: Confidence is Learned and Practiced

11:46 Summary and Conclusion

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If you are a high achiever, played other competitive sports or are in the habit of beating yourself up for not reaching your goals or falling short of your expectations, this episode is for you.

When I encourage people to find the small wins in golf or life, it can seem like you are giving yourself an out or a pass for not succeeding.

It can seem more useful to beat yourself up for a bit, feel down and show that you are not happy with your performance.

In this episode, I want to share with you the reasons why you want to find the smalls wins and the benefit or lack there of in being hard on yourself.

This will shift the way you look at giving yourself a hard time for underperforming and inspire you to go out and find the wins, no matter how small.

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