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When someone like Tiger Woods is creating the phenomenal golf that he is known for, it’s intense! He is so present and so potent in this area that few people could not be effected by the amount of energy he is being. Look at how many people are drawn around the tee to watch him drive the ball, not to mention huge TV audiences.

At every step of the way people are there like moths to the flame. They can’t seem to get close enough to him. It’s like new lovers who just can’t stand to be apart and you’ve all had that somewhere in your lives. What is that? Would you be willing to consider the possibility that players like Woods can turn-you-on? Be it music, acting, sport or something else, when someone is creating from a space of intensity and presence, it’s irresistible and your body loves it.

Author's Note

I wrote, “There's No Sex In Golf,” to address something that seems to be missing from golf, at least for me. I'm talking about the joy of playing one of the greatest games in the world.

In exploring this I discovered, often the things preventing us from playing better golf, have little to do with golf and everything to do with us. For example,

• if you are unwilling to have lots of money in your life, then you can never allow you to become a successful, prize-winning professional. Golf rewards those who win, with professionals earning considerable prize money.
• if you are trying to be Mr. Nice-Guy with your playing partners, then you are unlikely to be willing to excel at golf and beat them hands-down in club competition.

A respected business leader and inovator recently identified five of the most important things a business can do to survive the current financial crisis. Can we apply these simple yet potent measures to another fast approaching crisis - the destruction of our only life-support system?

"Any species that continues to multiply within a finite environment, will eventually and inevitably destroy it’s life support system; in our case … Earth."

1. Look at everything you’ve assumed you have gotten right

There is a philosophy, which encourages business, organisations and individuals to be consistently on the creative edge, constantly innovating and changing, far in advance of their competition. Its easy and simply says,

“Always be in question.“

“I find it interesting that you mention giving up practice in order to improve. What makes golf so different from any other physical sport requiring at least 10,000 hours of practice to master?”

I acknowledge there is a point-of-view that it takes some 10,000 hours to achieve mastery. My question to you is, “Is that true for you?”

I’ve observed over three-generations of my family that Mum and Dad still struggle to use a computer, while it was much easier for me and my sister’s two boys were using one by about age five. Just because 10,000 hours is considered normal, doesn’t mean you have to be normal. If you were willing to be extraordinary, could you master golf in less time?