Feature
Focus on
The Start
by Wg Cdr Arun Kumar Singh
(Retd), President, GCS&MAI
It’s common sight to see parents planning a career path for children
in the world of golf.
T
he aspirational nature of the game
motivates many affl uent parents
to chart this path as they have
access to some expensive coaching and the
entry barriers ensure an air of exclusivity.
Planning a career in golf is not a
straightforward line of practicing by
spending long hours and taking expert
coaching. Many budding golfers have the
passion to be wanting to be champions
but it’s the passion to go through the grind
or process which is needed. Something
which the great Vijay Singh demonstrated
while working in the Sabah Golf club
deep inside the forests of Malaysia. It’s
important to develop good habits to be
able to go through the process of doing it
again and again.
MAKE SMALL CHANGES
Habit is a repeated action and is defi ned
as ‘’something which is done often and
regularly and sometimes, it’s done without
realizing it to be a conscious action’’.
Obviously, we would like to cultivate
good habits and the best way is not to plan
grand changes but rather do small things.
James Clear in his book ‘Atomic Habits’
says with enough science to back him, that
small habits (Atomic Habits) do lead to
huge changes.
RIDE ON THE BACK OF
ANOTHER HABIT
It’s easy to cultivate small changes if
they are added to an existing habit. By
piggybacking on a base habit the new
changes are easier to develop as a new
habit and then it get’s even better. A few
good habits not only lead to following
constructive practices but also creates a
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