[innercityteacher]

And...she can cook!!!! Is this a great country or what? Now, if we could just get a certain Potus to retire and be a university president...and then some tax breaks...and then some nice weather....If I may quote from "Field of Dreams," "Mr. is this heaven? No," replied Kevin Costner, "It's Iowa."

I went to college in Iowa. I know that might upset Kevin and the rest of the Minnesota mob, but I did date a girl from Minnesota, actually, uhm, several

Oops, the wifey just got home!

I've seen this posted elsewhere but have only given it a cursory look before.

Today I read it and immediately decided it needed saving and printing to go into the bag.

There are a couple of things I really want to draw attention to and give my thoughts on.

1) Learn to "have to" into "want to"
2) You are what you "Think you are"
3) Winners see what they want, Losers see what they don't want
4) Always be in a good frame of mind
5) Believing in your mental image will make you a master
6) Be in charge of your thinking

The first thing I would say is that quite a few 'sports psychologists' are making a pretty good living off these directions!

I think all of the listed ones above are simple but brilliant. One of my key goals this year is to "appear as a champion". By this I mean I am going to update my wardrobe so that I never stand on the first tee looking anything other than a champion golfer. I don't mean I will be buying Poulter's baby pink tartan trousers and pink FJ icons but I do mean that my clothes will match and compliment and they will be ironed and spotless. This may seem basic but I could definitely be accused in the past of wearing 'comfortable old trousers' that looked like they'd been my friends for manys a year! The same with my dryjoys - they are a good pair of shoes but more often than not they are a grimy brown from the muck on my course.