This past weekend I went on a golf outing with some friends. Golf is a challenging game. There are the physical components to it; you have to be lined up to the ball properly, take the proper swing, etc, but the main part of the game is mental.
Golf forces you to concentrate on the moment; the shot at hand. When I think about hitting a good shot and focus on that I can often do it. But, when I think about the previous shot or the next shot, it affects my score – negatively.
The thing about golf is, you can’t look ahead and you can’t dwell on what happened earlier. The moment before you is the only moment that exists and it’s the only moment that dictates what happens next.
Focus is also critical to have a rewarding life. If we get too hung up on the past or we think about the future too much we drift through the present, then we wonder how we ended up where we did.
In golf, the scorecard is there to remind you how well you played. For me it shows how well you focused. It shows you what you did right and what needs improvement.
I think it would be helpful to have a daily living scorecard. Each day we could see where are successes and missteps are. It could remind us to stay focused, to not get distracted. It could help us to live the moment in front of us as the most important moment there is; because in the end, it’s all we have.
Your wonderful Greg. 🙂 I love it. I likened it to my believing that life is in the journey, in the living of it, in the absorbing of every single moment getting us to the next one.
Thanks Mary! You are absolutely correct! You need to take life in and appreciate it. 🙂