Control your self-talk to what you want to attain, rather than what you want to avoid. (March 2007)
With Ed Grant
What do you do when you're nervous on the golf course... when you're choking? Everybody gets nervous. I think the question here is some people can control it and some people cannot control it. When most people get nervous their self-talk is more about what they want to avoid than what they want to attain. Make sure you're controlling your self-talk to what you want to attain, not what you want to avoid. If your self-talk is concentrating on what you want to attain then the problem would be excitement, not nervousness because you would be excited about what you were going to attain.
