Mind Caddie - Improve Your Mental Golf Game The Supreme Mental Skill of Acceptance – Jim Waldron #385
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Nov 28, 2025 
In this enlightening discussion, Jim Waldron, a renowned golf coach and founder of Balance Point Golf, shares his expertise on the crucial mental skill of acceptance. He emphasizes how acceptance forms the foundation of mental performance and how resisting discomfort leads to suffering. Jim introduces insightful concepts like mindfulness, verbalized acceptance scripts, and the importance of a carefree acceptance step in pre-shot routines. He also connects personal growth to overcoming the yips and encourages players to adopt a long-term mastery mindset.
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Resistance Comes Before Acceptance
- Resistance to experience precedes poor performance and must be addressed first.
- Jim Waldron says lack of acceptance is a root cause of psychological suffering in golf.
Add A Carefree Acceptance Step
- Build a pre-shot routine step that deeply accepts all outcomes before visualizing success.
- Jim Waldron insists the 'carefree' acceptance step reduces threat more than visualization does.
Say Acceptance Out Loud
- Verbalize acceptance in your routine to neutralize fear and remove added emotion.
- Use short statements acknowledging all outcomes and finish with 'let's see what happens here.'
