Success Story
One of the best parts of helping people have more fun doing what they love... is hearing their success stories.
A few weeks ago I was a guest on a podcast hosted by old friend and terrific golf instructor Marty Griffin.
Yesterday Marty forwarded me an e mail he received from one of his podcast listeners.
What Marty's listener experienced and shared with us is one of the best parts of why we do what we do.
𝑯𝒊 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒚,
"𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 (𝒉𝒐𝒑𝒆) 𝒚𝒐𝒖’𝒍𝒍 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔…
𝑰 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 5 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐 𝒂𝒕 52. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒂 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒃𝒖𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒎𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒌.
𝑰 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒊𝒕 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒂𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆.
𝑩𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒅 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓, 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒊𝒅 80𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒖𝒕, 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝑰 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒏, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆.
𝑰 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒚 𝑾𝒆𝒅𝒏𝒆𝒔𝒅𝒂𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒏’𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒆. 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒈𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 80𝒔 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒍.
𝑰’𝒎 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒍, 𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇-𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒈𝒖𝒚. 𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝑰 𝒅𝒆𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚 𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔, 𝑰 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒊𝒕 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒚 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒂 𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍.
𝑳𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝑰 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒅𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒅𝒆 𝒐𝒏 “𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒛𝒐𝒏𝒆”.
𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒏’𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒆, 𝑰 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒊𝒙 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒊𝒙 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒍𝒌𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒕. 𝑨𝒏𝒅, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅, 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒐𝒓 𝒃𝒂𝒅, 𝑰 𝒔𝒂𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒂𝒔 𝒐𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒂 𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎. 𝑮𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒖𝒃𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒈 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒅𝒔. 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒚 𝒂𝒔 𝑰 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆. 𝑨𝒕 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝑰’𝒅 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒔…
𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓. 𝒀𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒓. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 9 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒉 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒘 𝒂 41, 𝑰 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒕 𝒂 35. 𝑬𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒔, 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒆, 𝒆𝒇𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔, 𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒖𝒏.
𝑼𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝒈𝒐𝒐𝒅 𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒆. 𝑾𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑰 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 8 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒑𝒖𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒑𝒂𝒓, 𝑰 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝑰’𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆. 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑰 𝒂𝒍𝒔𝒐 𝒌𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑺𝒐 𝑰 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒚 𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒎𝒚 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒃𝒊𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒑𝒂𝒓… 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒏.
𝑭𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅, 𝑰 𝒆𝒏𝒋𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒈𝒖𝒆, 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚 𝒅𝒂𝒅, 𝒘𝒊𝒇𝒆, 𝒔𝒐𝒏, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒂 𝒇𝒆𝒘 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒔.
𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒏𝒐𝒊𝒔𝒆 𝑰 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒅 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐.
𝑰 𝒕𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌 𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝒐𝒇 𝒈𝒐𝒍𝒇 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒃𝒊𝒕. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝑰 𝒕𝒆𝒆 𝒐𝒇𝒇, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒈𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒃𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒖𝒃𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉 𝒊𝒕 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒘𝒂𝒚.
𝑨 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒌𝒔 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆.
𝑷𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒈𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝑮𝒆𝒐𝒇𝒇 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒊𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒎𝒚 𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒆.
𝑯𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒇𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒋𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒓𝒂𝒛𝒚 𝒈𝒂𝒎𝒆."
𝑾𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑹𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒔,
𝑴𝒊𝒌𝒆
Here is the link to the podcast Mike listened to: