November 2017 - The Game Plan Archive

GAME CHANGER NUMBER ELEVEN. DON’T CHASE THE GAME. LIVE THE JOURNEY.

Posted on: November 14th, 2017 by Rob Opie No Comments

”Success is found in the process – not the result” – Gary Kirsten

Hi, I’m Coach Rob Opie, and the subject of this week’s COACHING NEWSLETTER is

Don’t chase the game. Live the journey.

Next week we will see Tiger Wood’s making his latest comeback to competitive golf.

The 41-year-old is set to resume his playing career when he tees it up at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas Nov. 30 to Dec. 3.

It will be his first start since February, and as always, all eyes will be on him. Can he do it this time around?

In this week’s coaching newsletter, we go inside the game plan of one of sport’s greatest ever – a 14 time golf major winner, to see what we can learn from his remarkable life story.

Tiger’s story, is a story of two halves. One before age 31 – and one after age 31.

Not since the days of Jack Nicklaus (18 majors), Arnold Palmer (7 majors) and Gary Player (9 majors) – has anyone dominated world golf like Tiger had by the age of 31.

Sports psychologist Steven Kosslyn had this to say about a man who was voted sporting super- star of the decade.

In Tiger’s head there is an orchestra. And it’s not just that some of the orchestra players are virtuosos. A lot of them are. He has all the aces – Steven Kosslyn

By age 31, Tiger had won 12 majors and was well on track to achieve his No.1 goal in life:

To become the greatest player who has ever played the game (by breaking Jack Nicklaus’s record of 18 majors.)

But, then life changed dramatically for Tiger.

In May 2006, Tiger’s lost his dad, Earl Woods.

Earl Woods had served twenty years in the US Military. A Vietnam veteran, he retired a Lieutenant Colonel – his final posting as an instructor of military science and tactics. After retiring, he threw everything into guiding Tiger’s burgeoning golf career.

Earl Wood set his son military like goals, becoming his supreme mentor, strategist, tactician and confidante.

A pact existed between father and son – to chase down Jack Nicklaus’s record tally of majors. It was a pact to dominate world golf.

With his dad at his side, it was ok to ”chase the game – chase the results”, but suddenly at age 31, Tiger found himself all on his own.

Domination is a dangerous word, and ” BURN OUT ”was becoming an ever increasing risk for a lonely Tiger Woods.

”Burn Out” transpires when too much focus is placed on ”chasing the results’‘ – resulting in too much pressure being placed on self.

The pressure can be relenting and all it takes is just one adversity for any athlete to reach and breach a tipping point.

Without his dad, his mentor by his side, it’s not too difficult to understand why Tiger tried to counter- balance:

extreme pain with extreme pleasure

From mid 2006, Tiger’s career began to derail – and it exploded in the media in 2009 when his many alleged extramarital indiscretions were revealed by several women, through many worldwide media sources.

In was a long hard road back for Tiger Woods, but to his credit he managed to climb back to the No.1 world ranking by April 2013.

But his No.1 ranking was short lived and something he was unable to sustain.

It was not the Tiger of old – with no more majors being added to his tally.

What could help Tiger to bounce back this time – and win a few more majors?

Note: Tiger’s last major victory was at the 2008 US OPEN.

Firstly, take his foot off the gas. Stop placing relentless pressure on himself. Stop chasing the game. Stop chasing the results.

Secondly, to refine and refocus his second half game plan, with the primary focus this time around being placed on his purpose in life – not his goals in life:

To entertain, to educate and to enrich the lives of millions with his God- given sporting genius

Thirdly, find himself a mentor to help him navigate a brand new second – half road, one of :

Sustained Success and Significance

It’s near impossible to be at the top – and stay at the top – without mentorship these days.

Fourthly, start living the journey – and enjoying it.

Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way – Brian Dyson

Rickie Fowler, Tiger’s practice mate, was recently asked if the rumours are true that Tiger’s been hitting it by him in practice at Medalist.

Oh yeah. Way by. So yeah, Tiger’s back- Rickie Fowler

Next week will see just how far Tiger has come? His current world ranking stands at a lowly 1189.

The Hero World Challenge is his charity event, so he is starting out right, by giving back to the game that has given him so much.

I believe he still has many majors left in him.

That’s if he surrounds himself with the right support – support to help him power up both his professional and personal game plan.

Key Insight

” Success is found in the process – not the result.”

Don’t chase the game. Live the journey.

An inspirational video from THE GAME PLAN

Here’s a short video we put togther to pay trubute to “Great South Africans” – those who are living the journey and inspiring us to be greater.

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GAME CHANGER NUMBER TEN : NO HEALTH. NO WEALTH.

Posted on: November 7th, 2017 by Rob Opie No Comments

” The main idea in life is not to be the richest man in the cemetery.”

Hi, I’m Coach Rob Opie, and the subject of this week’s COACHING NEWSLETTER is

No Health. No Wealth.

A fine line exists between human greatness and human implosion.

Often the loss of one’s health – and sometimes one’s life – is the price that is paid when one pushes the human limits too far.

In this week’s coaching newsletter, we have a look at why it’s vital to strive for balance in your life – live a balanced professional and personal life.

I will be sharing with you some of the most powerful universal principles of life and health – the principles which govern our daily lives.

In 2011, one of the world’s true genius’s , succumbed to pancreatic cancer. He was 56 years old at the time, with an estimated net worth of 56 billion dollars.

My favourite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. Steve Jobs

As a workaholic, Steve Jobs never got that chance to share more time with family and friends.

He got it humanly wrong, when it comes to the universal principles of life and health – which pertain to life balance.

There are many potent life lessons that can be learnt from his fascinating, yet tragic life story…………

Here’s one of the invaluable insights on HUMAN WELLNESS, which I garnered from one of the most unlikely of sources.

It did not come from the medical fraternity.

It came from a sporting legend – one of Great Britain’s greatest ever middle distance athletes:

We all have a finite amount of energy. Whether you use physical or mental energy it all comes from the same source. Wherever you focus your energy you’re either filling or depleting the same ”well” – Sir Sebastian Coe

In health and life no one can perform optimally when they are running on empty – when the human energy well is on reserve.

Our job is therefore to keep the HUMAN ENERGY WELL topped up to the brim – by living a life of balance.

Here are some insights on how to do that.

The human energy well – our wellness – has three vital buckets which we use to either fill or drain the well.

Each one is of equal importance – namely the physical, chemical and emotional buckets.

Physical is what we put into our bodies.

Chemical is what we put in our mouths.

Emotional is what we put in our heads.

By far the most powerful universal law of life and health is:

Too much or too little of anything for too long – creates a state of imbalance.

When we as human beings either unwittingly or habitually fail to maintain balance in our lives , we are effectively creating fertile ground for the onset of dis-ease – from minor cases such as a headache or backache – to life threatening ones such as cancer.

Here’s how it works :

In health and life, the human body is designed to operate in a state of balance – and functions optimally as a harmonious, synchronised unit.

When the mind, body and spirit are all in sync, there is an optimal state of life balance.

Life is good. Health is good.

We are tasked with creating and maintaining this ongoing state of balance, so that the human body can do its job.

Thankfully the genius of science has made us all pretty adept on how to fill our human energy well from the physical and chemical buckets.

We know how much sleep and rest we need.

We know how much exercise we need.

We know which foods agree with us, and which foods do not.

Our bodies have wonderful feedback mechanisms to help keep us balanced in the physical and chemical realms of life and health.

We mostly know what to take in here, and what not to take in.

For example in the physical realm, we know when we have had too much sun (it turns toxic on us in the form of sunburn).

In the chemical realm, we know when we have had too much alcohol, albeit only the next morning (it turns toxic on us in the form of a hangover).

But, it’s never that simple in the emotional realm.

When it comes to the potent emotional bucket – our understanding of the universal principles of health and life are actually limited:

Surprisingly very few people grasp the potent role that emotions play in maintaining or destroying our health and wealth

As human emotional beings, we live mostly hectic, fast-paced lives and many emotional stressors are often responsible for disturbing and disrupting this optimum state of balance.

Often it is from the emotional realm where human implosion happens.

Unwittingly or habitually, we continue to drain the human energy well from the emotional bucket, creating an on-going state of imbalance.

If this continues unabated for a lengthy time period, a tipping point is reached and breached.

The human energy well dries up.

The body has effectively moved from its balanced state of ease – to an unbalanced state of dis-ease (it turns toxic on us in the form of one or other chronic disease)

Here are some invaluable insights to help you to positively leverage the emotional bucket.

To fill up the human energy well using the emotional bucket – one should fill up one’s life with the ‘Big Five’ positive emotions.

Here they are:

Gratitude,Unconditional Love, Acceptance, Forgiveness and Joy

They’re life’s greatest energizers. They’re life’s greatest healers.

And be very sure to steer well clear of life’s ”Big Five” negative emotions.

Here they are:

Resentment, Hate, Criticism, Guilt and Futility

They are life’s greatest drainers.

And if held long term, they turn toxic and become life’s greatest killers.

Our research at THE GAME PLAN reveals the following triggering causes of states of chronic dis-ease.

Are you seated ?

Long term held RESENTMENT (bitter indignation) can trigger CANCER.

Resentment festers in the human body and has the power to send the human cell formation process into total disarray.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies – Nelson Mandela

Long term held HATE can trigger a HEART ATTACK.

Hate has the power to cut off the flow of blood, the flow of joy, in the human body.

Long term held GUILT can trigger Motor Neuron Dis-ease.

Guilt has the power to systematically close down your motor neurons.

Long term held CRITICISM can trigger ARTHRITIS, RHEMATISM, FIBROMYALGIA, SINUSITUS etc.

Criticism, especially self criticism, has the power to clog up the human body.

Long term held FUTILITY can trigger ADDICTION.

Futility, a form of self pity and victimhood, has the power to block you from living a fulfilled , happy and healthy life.

Even today, with the genius advancements in modern medical science, most medical doctors will tell you that they do not know the cause of many of the so called ”chronic diseases”.

That’s because most doctors still do not believe that unbalanced emotions can trigger disease.

Their primary approach is to treat the symptom rather than the cause – via powerful symptomatic drugs.

SPECIAL NOTE : For further insights on how to prevent and /or conquer chronic dis-ease, visit my non – profit cancer resource site: WWW.CANCERCHAMPIONS.CO