How I’m Staying Motivated During Quarantine

[Music] finding any motivation has been really difficult and I don't think I'm alone in that so I wanna make a little video today talking about how I'm pressing through this bizarre bizarre bizarre state of affairs right now we've been in this you know quarantine for over 4 weeks now that's getting boring I'm getting restless finding motivation to keep working to keep moving forward is tough but fine and it's not like a magic formula or anything pretty simple and that's what we want to try to share today but first thing I have to do it's Monday it's off hours it's it's not quite first thing in the morning second thing in the morning and groceries garage workout check how I'm finding this or tapping into this motivation in these uncertain times and strange times is a book I read basically a week or two into this just it was my next in my list was called the one thing linked it blow on Amazon the principle there is just like you have to kind of find your one thing and then how do you plan your time to make sure you you work on your one thing every day very intently the idea is you schedule appointment with yourself every day to work on your one thing distraction-free intently focused work on your one thing and whatever your one thing is it could be school it could be work start up your your fitness your golf whatever it is like that's up to you I've found it very very helpful because I've always planned out my weeks but it's very easy when there's kind of nothing at the end of this it's just like okay we'll just well we're all within the weeks the days will change but on Sunday I sit down get myself like half an hour I plan out the whole weekend at the start of this it was very easy to do because I was filming a lot trying to get ahead of the curve and have a lot of videos to put out so my one thing in the start of the start of this whole quarantine was just to sit and edit film plan and just like knock that out in the morning I have a little note checklist and I check it off so like a day like today I planned this whole week out and today was like okay you got to wake up things need to do you have to edit a music video I'm working on get those groceries done get your workout done this is my one thing today it's it's maintenance work but then that allows me time to practice and that's what this afternoon is it's practice time it's not film time it's practice time and yeah film vlog time but it's not going to go golf course and film of course swaggering like that it's practice time it's time for me to work on a game because all I can handle and control is the process right now and the process is is my effort on my golf game when this all ends a month from now two months around whenever I want to be able to play tournament golf and be sharp so I can't just sit and rest on my laurels I need to put in some focused mindful intentional work every day that's not that's might one thing writing it down planning it out and then and just crossing it off there's a sense of accomplishment that you fall in love with that and that's that book has really helped me just do it you just got to show up and set those appointments with yourself and just show up that's the key if you're struggling to practice because you don't see why you should practice we'll just go to the golf course and you'll figure it out show up get off your ass that's kind of what I'm having to do to myself and today and that's why I think I'm vlogging it just to keep myself accountable today because it'll be very easy to just sit on my ass and play WGT Oh [Music] [Music] one of the things that I'm doing and like my just get out here and do it and kind of fortunate because live you we went around the beta app but they've just rolled out a new app so there was features in here that I have to learn and it's almost like it's a great reason for me to get out to the course and practice because I want to learn what I'm capable of doing with this awesome piece of equipment and at the same time I'm actually working on my golf took a swing drew that on because I want to make sure that's the plane and then I'm gonna shadow but in using this in the last week or so I've noticed you know my swing was kind of getting pointed a little bit too far behind me you know that why was that well I'm just not turning enough and this is making me pay attention to what I need to be working on because we've got a really good move coming through the ball recently Dan's really helped me with opening up through impact but I guess what I've been kind of forgetting about is making sure I really complete that term because that gets the club exactly where we want it to be I'm a little short on my turn I'm a little bit behind me easy for me to get a little steep so using this I can do that but it's a got a setting now where it's like audio detected so watch this when I hit a shot it's gonna basically know it will have recorded it play it back to me so it heard it now it plays it back and then I can kind of just play around with it we look okay cranking that turn clubs not as pointing behind me then it and there's got to turn on through so that's one of the cool features than it that it has right now is it I don't know how it does it cuz it's it's basically recording what you're doing but not saving it but when I hear is impact it knows that you've made a golf swing so it plays the bath you there's other features that I still need to play around with like there is a mirror feet turn out where you can actually I could set up like my phone here and that can record and play to hear so it's like I can get this and this at the same time but what I really like is how simple it is for me right now working on the same things always make sure the clubs in a good place it's shallows and I just turn through it but the thing that I was forgetting was you know really cranking that turn on the way back sloppy but not too concerned about contact I'm concerned about that turn that's exactly what I want [Music] [Music] I said earlier that you just had to show up I don't have a lot of desire to like grind away on my golf swing I'm just falling in love with with hitting shots and really just focusing on my feel and my target focus because anyone that's been watching the channel now for a bit has known that this 2019 was a mess and forgot how to play golf and just focus on a target and let my body react to that target but if you've been watching the videos the last month or so I'm starting to get my wedge play back because I'm having an ability to just really dial in to a target and just instinctually let it happen I mean this this yardage it's a lob wedge shot but I'm hitting it with a 54 degree just to really feel my speed and feel my body and just connect to a target even though it's not the stock shot and finding this creativity and just being able to stand over the ball and only think about the target not think about my swing it's been a lot of fun and it's just reminding me of when I was a better golfer when I was early in my professional career and late in my amateur career like wedges or was just my most fun thing to practice and form on the golf course but then it just turned into let's play golf swing and wedge play just started to suffer and be really inconsistent and if your wedge plays inconsistent in professional golf you're not making any money and you're missing a lot of cuts and I've done my fair share of that moral of this story is just show up and find something that you like to do for me it's it's just having a lot of fun with my wedges I'm wearing out the grooves on my wedges just hitting shots 3040 hundred like whatever it is around the shore came green I'm just having a blast again because showed up motivation is gonna come and go like there's no secret said that countless times so many times we don't want it and that's fine that's totally fine the weather looked crappy today I could have just said oh you know what I'm gonna ignore my plan ignore my one thing and just kind of do some other stuff today and make up for it tomorrow well no just show up answered you planned your one thing so go and do it and even though it's raining a little bit you're making the most of it and that effort is gonna pay off in droves you're in graining strength again mental strength and physical strength and all these good things and when it comes time for like competition and when the trigger goes off again we're allowed to restart you're gonna have gained a lot more than you thought like the objective of this whole time on pause is about coming back stronger than ever my advice set it countless times in this vlog just show up plan it and then just go and do it even if you don't want to if you don't feel like it you've made that appointment with yourself you wouldn't cancel that appointment with somebody else so don't cancel with yourself that's kind of a story I hope you enjoyed this vlog it just feels good to vlog again it feels good to let the creative juices flow special episode hope you enjoyed it give it a thumbs up subscribe if you're not subscribed see you in the next video [Music]