{"id":949,"date":"2011-04-20T06:26:07","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T11:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=949"},"modified":"2011-04-20T06:27:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T11:27:26","slug":"18-holes-and-your-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=949","title":{"rendered":"18 holes and your business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team,<\/p>\n<p>New business owners, and sometimes experienced ones on a new mission, sometimes get into a funk called paralysis of &#8220;anal-ysis&#8221; or &#8220;overwhelm&#8221; related to &#8220;what do I do first, second, third&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>If you put off everything till you&#8217;re sure of it, you&#8217;ll never get anything done<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                    &#8211;Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993, Minister and Author<\/p>\n<p>Golf is the answer because it is exactly like business; <\/p>\n<p>1.    First you <em>decide to play<\/em>.  (Which will be based upon some reason &#8220;why&#8221;.)<\/p>\n<p>2.    Second you <em>take massive action<\/em>.  Then you go to a golf course, rent or borrow balls, clubs shoes, hats etc. and you either call people to go with you or you find people there who have already decided to play.<\/p>\n<p>3.    Third, you <em>change your physiology<\/em> by listening to, and often watching a coach or mentor or other players actually perform the necessary actions.<\/p>\n<p>And how is the game played?  One hole, one ball, one step, one swing at a time.<\/p>\n<p>And how do you get better at playing?  Repetition  (&#8230;is the mother of skill.)<\/p>\n<p>And when do you start to enjoy the game?  As soon as you decide to play.<\/p>\n<p>Because &#8220;a bad day of golf is better than a good day at a job&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Live With Intention,<br \/>\nDr Bill<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team, New business owners, and sometimes experienced ones on a new mission, sometimes get into a funk called paralysis of &#8220;anal-ysis&#8221; or &#8220;overwhelm&#8221; related to &#8220;what do I do first, second, third&#8221;. &#8220;If you put off everything till &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=949\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[29,119,32,154,37,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,153,31],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-coaching","category-personal-development","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-create-your-fate","tag-createyourfate","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-postaday2011","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}