After placing entries on the blog for a while, and largely because it’s the off season for golf in the Midwest, I seem to have run out of things to say! Now, that doesn’t happen to me often, but it did. Running things through my mind trying to come up with creative ideas, a comment made by my husband in my first year of golf gave me a little inspiration.

At any point in time, a golfer (or a writer or anyone in any position in life) might end up in a slump. A golfer may begin hooking, slicing, topping the ball, hitting it too far, too flat, too soft, you get the picture. I didn’t seem to be able to do anything right in my first year, and occasionally, fall back into that trap. When I do, I say “I don’t know what I’m doing wrong.” My husband’s advice is always, “change SOMETHING”. He told me to find one thing and change it - whether it be to step further away from the ball, use a different club when I tee off, or to limit my backswing. The point is it doesn’t matter if you’re changing the right thing or not! But, by doing the wrong thing over and over, you cannot improve and will only extend that slump.

That advice works in life as well as in golf. In golf, aren’t we always trying to move forward toward a target - a goal? Take the same advice and apply it toward life and your goals. By doing one thing different, you might just get to your destination a little faster!