I have been going to golf courses, attempting to hit a little round ball approximately 1.5 inches in diameter with a bag of L shaped sticks into a hole in the ground for over ten years with no success. Now to some of you this may sound like an activity you are familiar with; golf. I assure you in no way shape or form can my activities on the golf course be considered golf.
All winter I think to myself this year I am going to turn it around, my tee shots will be straight, and my putts will drop in the hole but it doesn’t happen. I take lessons. I hit buckets of balls at the driving range and still no improvement, my ongoing concern is whether or not the dozen balls I bought on the way to the course is enough.
I was invited to play with an acquaintance recently and warned him my game was pretty ugly. He said “it can’t be that bad, if we were any good we wouldn’t be working” after the round he said “I owe you an apology, you were right.”
So today is Tuesday and once again I will play in my weekly golf league, I have been to range a couple times since last week’s round and hoping for some improvement. I am not sure it will come, I keep saying this is the last time I will play, but I keep going back. I just don’t get it.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Thursday, May 20, 2010
The Mike Bonacorsi Show- May 18, 2010 with guest Nancy Padberg
Mike Bonacorsi is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional, author of the book Retirement Readiness; Creating Your Vision, Knowing Your Position, and Preparing for Your Future, and host of the Mike Bonacorsi Show on WSMN Radio.
The Focus of his practice is helping clients create plans and strategies for retirement built around the key areas of Lifestyle, Wealth and Health. Mike believes that retirement planning is more than just the value of your 401k.
Today Nancy Padberg from BestBoomerTowns.com is on the Show. Ms. Padberg is a former Fortune 500 Times Mirror executive, Integrated Marketing Communications Vice President and MBA graduate from the Graziadio School of Business & Management at Pepperdine University. Ms. Padberg has over 17 years of publishing and marketing expertise, served on several boards, is a guest speaker, published author, former Big 12 golfer and resides in Santa Monica.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Nudge
Nudge-to push against gently, especially to gain attention or give a signal.
At some point we all need a nudge to motivate us to get things moving, whether it is starting a new project or reenergizing your efforts in an existing activity. This nudge can be as subtle as a whisper in your ear or as blatant as a kick in the pants but when it comes you need to be ready to take advantage of the momentum it creates and turn it into action.
This weekend, accepting a friend’s invitation, I attended National Speakers Association meeting as a guest; “you’ll love it, the people are great and the speakers are top-notch” she said.
I am always cautious about joining a group, I’m not one to mingle, however she was right, the people were friendly and I felt comfortable from the moment I walked in.
My nudge came when the speaker began, Chad Barr (CB Software, Chad Barr Group) a web designer and internet strategist, began to speak about web presence, websites, blogs, articles, videos you name and this was my “kick-in-the pants” moment.
I have been thinking about making changes to my website for the past month or two, I had been thinking about updating my blog regularly for the past three months, I had been thinking about doing some e-books. I had been thinking about doing all these things but not doing them something else always got in the way.
This was more than a timely event or a coincidence, maybe a sign from above, who knows but it is Monday morning and I am posting my first blog in three months and have built scheduled postings into my calendar. I will be discussing my website with my web person later this week and plan on having the e-book complete by June 30.
Reasons to put off, ignore or delay are plentiful and easy to accept, fighting the urge to follow them is difficult. Nudges are difficult to find but powerful and loaded with potential energy when acted on. They may come from a book, a speech, maybe a dream, but you need to recognize it and use the momentum it provides.
At some point we all need a nudge to motivate us to get things moving, whether it is starting a new project or reenergizing your efforts in an existing activity. This nudge can be as subtle as a whisper in your ear or as blatant as a kick in the pants but when it comes you need to be ready to take advantage of the momentum it creates and turn it into action.
This weekend, accepting a friend’s invitation, I attended National Speakers Association meeting as a guest; “you’ll love it, the people are great and the speakers are top-notch” she said.
I am always cautious about joining a group, I’m not one to mingle, however she was right, the people were friendly and I felt comfortable from the moment I walked in.
My nudge came when the speaker began, Chad Barr (CB Software, Chad Barr Group) a web designer and internet strategist, began to speak about web presence, websites, blogs, articles, videos you name and this was my “kick-in-the pants” moment.
I have been thinking about making changes to my website for the past month or two, I had been thinking about updating my blog regularly for the past three months, I had been thinking about doing some e-books. I had been thinking about doing all these things but not doing them something else always got in the way.
This was more than a timely event or a coincidence, maybe a sign from above, who knows but it is Monday morning and I am posting my first blog in three months and have built scheduled postings into my calendar. I will be discussing my website with my web person later this week and plan on having the e-book complete by June 30.
Reasons to put off, ignore or delay are plentiful and easy to accept, fighting the urge to follow them is difficult. Nudges are difficult to find but powerful and loaded with potential energy when acted on. They may come from a book, a speech, maybe a dream, but you need to recognize it and use the momentum it provides.
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