Hi Gordon,

Wow. I should have taken golf lessons from you. I lived for about a year in a resort community that had a golf course. I could have played whenever I wanted to play.....no cost or anything....and the one time I went out to "hit some balls" I never managed to "hit the ball."

So can I ever relate....maybe there is hope for yet as a golfer!

> It is amazing to me that people require so
> much direction, because when I do this with
> a 2 or 3 year old, they don't ask any
> questions, they stand there and swing until
> they hit the ball.

***And my Emma would add, looking at you angrily, "NO! Me do it!" I do not have any idea where that kid gets her passion....hahahahaha!

> Something I couldn't get adults to do
> because of their own baggage.

***It always amazes me how much power people hand over to their baggage. What a waste of time and energy! Dr. Laura gave me advice nearly ten years ago that I have often remembered and passed along.

It was the Thanksgiving after the death of my oldest daughter. She told me, when I was lamenting my brother-in-law's attendance at MY Thanksgiving dinner, the same brother-in-law who had "the nerve" (I am much more forgiving and adult about this now) to skip my daughter's funeral, "Julie, keep your power your own. Why would you want to give it away to him? Or anyone for that matter!"

Now my eight year old will nudge herself, in self talk (which she does outloud) "I am not meaning to give my power away to thus-and-so, so from this moment, I will not!"

> I tell my students to HIT THE BALL. Do that
> and we'll go from there.

****Good deal, Gordon. I used this in Coaching a client today. She was analyzing the HECK out of EVERYTHING. I asked her what if she just stopped analyzing and just DID the task at hand.

She started speaking, and her answers came forward, as if I had waved a magic wand. I said, "SEE? Your answers are RIGHT THERE!" She laughed and I said,

"So, you will COMMIT to me to do this assignment?"

"YES!"

and then we talked and I asked her again,

"You will COMMIT to completing this, without your overanalysis getting in the way?"

"YES!" she said......

HIT THE BALL! Gotta love it.......

With Purpose and Passion,

JULIE JORDAN SCOTT




Dare to Discover Your Passion, Decide to Live Your Destiny!