Golf motivation cartoons!

For years I wanted to start playing golf, but always thought that it would take up too much time to become any good at it. (If I do something I want to do it well!) Anyway, with squash and football/soccer getting a bit much for me at my age I’ve decided to take the plunge and start having lessons - which I’m finding very challenging. In the meantime I’ve been commissioned to illustrate some ‘golf confidence’ articles.(Is this a coincidence or what!?)

Here’s the first one I’ve illustrated for Gail Smirthwaite at http://www.confidencecaddie.com that appeared in Lady Golfer as a series of articles….

This month we are going to take a look at how goals create the ‘motivation’ in your life and how setting a goal BEFORE you go out and play golf will greatly impact on the results you will achieve.
In ‘The 7 Secrets of a Highly Successful Golfer’ every ‘secret’ helps to create awareness on how very important the role ‘good self-esteem’ plays in becoming a consistently confident person on and off the golf course. Motivation is very important to this process …how many times has your little voice said, ‘I always get to the fifteenth hole and feel really tired’, or ‘I just can’t seem to get motivated about anything especially my golf!’ - I am sure you can add to these?
In order for you to create the game of golf you would like to play, or indeed the life you would like to lead, you need to set goals; then fulfill your commitments to these goals and change the habits you have created that are stopping you from achieving what you really want to.
NB: Goals are dreams with a date attached!
I often ask the following question when I do a talk on this subject – ‘How many of you have set yourself the goal of lowering your handicap this year?’ Guess how many people in the audience put their hands up – yes nearly everyone?

Then I ask the next two questions; whether they had a similar goal the year before and how many actually achieved it. Again, many hands go up for the first part of the question but for the second part pretty much EVERY hand stays down.
Making goals is a peculiar emotional process that we humans engage in on a regular basis, however, what we tend to do is make the goal in our heads and then expect them to happen – we do nothing to change the habits that are preventing us from achieving them or create an achievable plan to get us there.
Einstein stated that the definition of insanity is ‘to keep doing what you have always done and expect a different result!’ How many of us are guilty of that one?
More importantly as the months go by and you have not achieved what you thought you would it serves as another nail in your coffin to lower your self-esteem. It allows that negative self-talk to kick in and tell you what a failure you are again!
Before you set your goals and work towards achieving them it is important to understand how your values and beliefs play such an important role in this process. No goal you make will truly give you proper fulfillment if it is not in line with what you value (Secret 2).
We are back to this word ‘desire’; you must really, truly desire the changes that you are looking for when you set yourself a goal. Let’s take the value of ‘success’, for instance, if this value means to you playing consistently well and taking your handicap down by two this season, then by thinking and believing it and by living it in every moment, you are more likely to succeed. REMEMBER you become what you think about most of the time!
NB: Also remember when setting goals they need to be yours, not other peoples or what you think you should be doing because those around you say so.
Often amateur golfers will come to me because they are not enjoying their game of golf anymore and cannot understand why. It sometimes turns out to be because they are putting unnecessary pressure on themselves because they have created a belief (Secret 3) that they should be playing golf to a certain standard. What they have often bought into is someone else’s values; someone else’s beliefs. This is why it is so IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND YOURSELF - to help create a real sense of self worth and inner confidence so that you can ENJOY the hobby the way you want to – not the way someone else believes you should!
So before you set about defining your GOALS make sure that they are in-line with YOUR VALUES otherwise you will set yourself up to fail again. To work further on your values and your goals download the relevant Work Books from the website www.playgreatgolf.co.uk and work through the exercises to establish your eight core values and their order of importance to you before setting your goals.

Cartoon Studio Becomes First Frozenheart Corporate Sponsor!

Hi, I’m Karl father to Emily who is my youngest daughter. Emily was born in the UK and taken by her American mother, Sheila, to the US when Emily was 11 months old. This blog is where I’m placing the media reports and evidence of the role of the US Department of State in abducting Emily to the US while obstructing justice for Emily and attempting to cover up misconduct of officials while Emily is denied medical treatment for her eye condition which will leave her blind.

Well the internet does work!

After an initial launch of the Frozenheart web site, a flurry of responses from around the world and from many people who have contacted me for the very first time.

Remember the primary aim initially is to establish a world wide network of accommodation for parents that is no cost for left behind parents traveling abroad to recovery their children.

An unexpected fringe benefit that is going to start taking centre stage is an email I received from Richard Duszczak of the Cartoon Studio Limited in the UK.

The Cartoon Studio have offered to become a corporate sponsor for Frozenheart and have kicked this off with £500 worth of free artwork and logo design and other support as well.

So, to Richard and his team at Cartoon Studio, I’d like to say thank you and I hope you are the first of many!

Now here’s an unashamed plug for those awfully decent chaps and chappettes at the Cartoon Studio:

For more information on Cartoon Studio Limited and how they can help your business with illustrations, logos and cartoon imagery contact them using the information below.

Cartoon Studio Limited
29 Lake View Avenue, Walton, Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK S40 3DR
Tel: +44(0)1246 209034 Fax: +44(0)1246 209034
Email: rd@cartoonstudio.co.uk
Web: www.cartoonstudio.co.uk

I’ll keep you informed of how the logo was created - so please stay tooned!

Richard

Cartoon strip - The College of Hard Knocks!

Hi,

I was filling out an online form the other day and it asked what college/university I had attended. Well as a self-taught cartoonist I hadn’t attended any college after leaving school. So I just entered ‘The College Of Hard Knocks’ Chesterfield UK. They haven’t questioned this as yet!

It reminded me of a cartoon strip I drew a few years ago….

Sorry about the lack of posts!

Hi,

Sorry about the lack of posts lately. I’ve just returned from a two week break/holiday/vacation. And the week before was mad trying to clear up everything before I went away. I’ll hopefully get back into the swing of things again over the next few days - once I’ve gone through about a 1000 emails I’ve received in my absence!

Stay tuned, Richard

Another slimming motivational cartoon!

Hi, lost a couple of pounds by cutting the crisps/chips and biscuits out. Still need to lose a few more.

Here’s a cartoon a drew a few years ago for Rosemary Conley. It’s motivating me to keep things going

for the summer months - when I can get back into my shorts!

Richard

Personalized motivational caricatures!

The Best in Creative Caricatures

How often have you been perplexed with the problem of what to get someone as a gift? After all, how many ties or bottles of aftershave can you give a man before it’s too much? Or your mum or dad, who always says: “Oh, I’ll love anything you give me!”

Beyond friends and family, what about a little something different to give out at the office? Aren’t you tired of just giving the “Employee of the Month” a boring certificate?

Well, here at Cartoon Motivators, I specialize in creative and unique caricatures for personalized gifts or corporate awards. If you’re looking for a great, unique way to award someone in your company, or just a cool way to say how much you appreciate someone, then I can provide you with completely original and unique caricatures of your favorite faculty member, loved one or friend.

All you have to do is send me a photo of the person and some helpful tips on their hobbies and personalities. I will sketch an initial cartoon for your approval. People always love the little personal touches. A caricature that shows your friend/loved one skiing down the Alps or punting up the Thames makes it so much more fun than just a simple picture. And, you don’t have to worry about the picture being inappropriate for “young eyes”; I do cartoons that are acceptable for anyone to see.

You can decline the design or make suggestions about how you want me to change your cartoons. Once I get something that you are happy with, and you give approval of the final copy, I will then send you a black and white or full color copy of your cartoon.

When it comes to the workplace, personalized caricatures are great motivators and visual affirmations of one’s appreciation for all their hard work and efforts. It will be such a delight to your employee for them to see themselves working away in a comical drawing. A little, light humour always helps people to wile away their time: it makes work less stressful.

For other personalized caricatures follow this link to my main site…

Cartoon strip - POZZY TIVV (Your own personal motivator)

Hi, everyone, things have been mad here for over a week now, working night and day on an urgent deadline for an educational book - so let me apologize for not posting anything.

Going the EXTRA Mile - cartoon!

I always like to think I go the extra mile in my cartoon business and I thought this might motivate you to do it in yours!

I came across the below motivational quote this morning while surfing.

Best wishes, Richard

“Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.”
A. Lou Vickery
Writer

Golf affirmation illustrated with cartoon!

Here’s a piece I came across that inspired a cartoon.(Please excuse me as I have misplaced the site that I got it from - it was a couple of years ago!)

For instance, lets say your chip onto the green wasn’t at all what you had hoped for, and instead you have a very difficult long putt to make for par instead. Rather than rueing the bad chip shot which most people do, you instead project forward to the next shot, and mentally repeat an affirmation such as “perfect putt, perfect putt, perfect putt…” , over, and over, and over again in your mind while your partner is hitting his shot.

So whenever you hit a bad shot or feel a negative pattern developing, interrupt it with a string of positive affirmations, repeated over and over again until the negative thought has been vanquished forever. Ensure that you never allow negative thoughts to take a hold of your thinking on the course again

The second round the next day I made sure that I was focusing my energy in seeing the golf ball go into the hole. And sure enough, the next day I shot 71. I had 27 putts and missed six other ones. The funny thing about all this is that once I focused my energy on getting the ball in the hole it was amazing how my swing fell into place.

I dealt with bad ball striking by focusing my attention on getting the golf ball in the hole, no matter what.

I can do this.
I can achieve my goals.
I am completely in control of my game.
I will create positive energy around me.

How To Customize How-To and Self-Help Info To Work For You!

Hi,

Here’s an article by Bob Scheinfeld, Life Change Expert. On how to organize your self help material. You

might have a stack of stuff like myself that needs sorting out!

Most self-help writers, including the most popular ones, will freely admit that even their best ideas only work for about five percent of their readers. Why? Because they are one-size-fits-all remedies that either don’t fit your situation or aren’t easily put into action.

As a 23 year veteran of the personal development field, I’ve seen many different self-help programs come and go. Most of them claim you have unlimited power and can create anything you consciously want — all you have to do is use the expert;’s techniques. That’s a nice theory, but it probably doesn’t match your day-to-day experience, does it?

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