The Internal Thermostat: Why You Keep Shooting the Same Score (And How to Finally Reset It)

Talk to Yourself. Don't Listen. Power Talk Part 2

Last week you learned why words are costing you strokes. Today you get the weapon. In Part 2 Bo and Shannon deliver everything promised from Part 1, and then go even further with brand-new science that was not in the book. Here is what you will hear in this episode: — Why you cannot control negative thoughts, but you can stop pulling the trigger on them, and exactly how the T-chart gives you the tool to do it in real time — The three types of Power Talk and which one science proves is the most powerful under pressure: I statements, you statements, and name-based statements, and why Cristiano Ronaldo talks to himself in third person before every penalty kick — University of Michigan research showing that using your own name in self-talk drops your amygdala fear response by 25 to 35 percent while keeping decision-making 15 to 20 percent more active — producing 8 to 15 percent better scores in close competition — The bank robbery analogy and Shannon's snake story from Seattle that prove words change your physiology before your brain can argue — The cortisol killer and how Power Talk physiologically switches you from sympathetic stress mode to parasympathetic calm mode, loosening your muscle fibers and increasing clubhead speed — Shannon's real cycling brake story on how "adversity is my advantage" lowered his rate of perceived exertion on a 40-mile ride and took his average from 19.5 to 21 miles per hour — The complete Power Talk library by category, swing, pressure, adversity, putting, short game, score, and present-moment focus with the chipping yips research that reframes difficult lies entirely — The three-part Power Talk formula: your name, an instruction reminder, a confidence boost — and Shannon's step-by-step plan for building it into your game over the next four to eight weeks — The T-chart built live on the episode with real examples for both sides 🎧 Listen & Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Listen Here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-round-away/id1888007837] Spotify — Listen Here [https://open.spotify.com/show/02ZSL14OnfSbp211SlmTYa?si=3327bcfb1aa94963] 🧠 Free Mental Game Assessment Find out exactly what's holding your game back — takes 5 minutes and it's completely free. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment [https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment] 📖 Get the Book In the Zone Secrets: How to Get in the Zone at the Flip of a Switch — just cover shipping and it's yours. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/ [https://inthezonesecrets.com/] 👥 Join the Caveman Golf Winner's Circle Our free community for golfers who are serious about playing their best. Come join the tribe. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout [https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout] 📞 Free Coaching Call If you're ready to close the gap between the golfer you are and the golfer you know you can be — let's talk. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall [https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall]

You're Doing the Rice Experiment on Yourself Every Round — Here's What That Means

What do you say to yourself when you miss a short putt you know you should have made? When you snap hook a driver out of bounds on a hole you always drive well? When you are trying to protect a lead and you make a double bogey? If you are honest, the answer is not pretty. And here is what most golfers have never been told. Those words are not just affecting your confidence. They are affecting your coordination, your muscle sequencing, and your physical ability to hit the very next shot. That is not a motivational statement. That is documented science. And today Bo and Shannon prove it. Here is what you will hear in this episode: — The Harvard University research that shows positive language improves performance by ten percent, but negative self-talk is forty to seventy times more powerful in the other direction — Dr. Emoto's rice experiment from the National Library of Medicine — three jars of cooked rice, different words spoken to each for one month, and results that make the case for Power Talk completely undeniable — All twelve types of negative self-talk that show up specifically in golf — from self-doubt and all-or-nothing thinking to the comparison trap and the one most golfers never think about: complaining — The new neuroscience on complaining that did not make it into the book in time and how just thirty seconds of frustration floods your body with cortisol, literally makes you dumber in real time, and rewires your brain to default to negativity faster with every repetition — Why the player Bo describes as the worst mental headcase he has seen in 37 years of golf is now playing some of his best — and which of the twelve types broke him — Shannon's David and Goliath teaching and what it has to do with the inner critic on the golf course The T-chart exercise and the complete Power Talk library are coming in Part 2 next week. This week your homework is simple — pay attention to what you are saying to yourself on the course. Document it. And come ready to build. 🎧 Listen & Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Listen Here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-round-away/id1888007837] Spotify — Listen Here [https://open.spotify.com/show/02ZSL14OnfSbp211SlmTYa?si=3327bcfb1aa94963] 🧠 Free Mental Game Assessment Find out exactly what's holding your game back — takes 5 minutes and it's completely free. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment [https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment] 📖 Get the Book In the Zone Secrets: How to Get in the Zone at the Flip of a Switch — just cover shipping and it's yours. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/ [https://inthezonesecrets.com/] 👥 Join the Caveman Golf Winner's Circle Our free community for golfers who are serious about playing their best. Come join the tribe. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout [https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout] 📞 Free Coaching Call If you're ready to close the gap between the golfer you are and the golfer you know you can be — let's talk. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall [https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall]

What's the Point? Ted Scott on Identity, Freedom, and What Makes Scottie Scheffler Unbeatable

Two weeks after winning his second Masters, Bubba Watson called Ted Scott with his number blocked. When Ted picked up, Bubba said four words that changed the way Ted sees this entire game.  What's the point.  Here is a man standing at the absolute top of what golf can offer, saying it out loud. And Ted Scott who has helped his golfers win four Masters victories, second most of all time at Augusta National, the man 18 inches away from every pressure moment Scottie Scheffler has faced, his answer to that phone call is the most important thing you will hear in this episode.  In Episode 10 Bo sits down with Ted Scott to bring everything taught across the first nine episodes to life at the highest level of professional golf.  Here is what you will hear:  — What Ted actually said to Scottie Scheffler after the shank in the bunker at the Tour Championship with $25 million on the line, and how Scottie rebounded to win it. — Why Ted believes the mental challenge ahead for Scottie next season is a spiritual battle more than a golf battle and what that means for your game  — The niece phone call the night before Ted shot his lowest professional tournament round, and the perspective that unlocked it  — How Ted defines a great caddy and why encouragement outranks yardages every time  — Why nerves and excitement share identical physical symptoms and the reframe that changes everything  — The Philippians passage Ted shares about Paul writing from jail with his fate in Roman hands and why it is the most powerful mental game illustration in the episode  — Shannon's WIN NOW framework: What's Important Now, No Opportunity Wasted  — Ted's closing quote: there are two ways to get enough, accumulate more, or desire less  If you want to know more about what it means to walk in the identity that gives Scottie Scheffler his freedom on the golf course, this episode is for you.  Resources: https://www.instagram.com/jtedscott/ [https://www.instagram.com/jtedscott/] Remember, you are just one round away.  🎧 Listen & Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Listen Here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-round-away/id1888007837] Spotify — Listen Here [https://open.spotify.com/show/02ZSL14OnfSbp211SlmTYa?si=3327bcfb1aa94963] 🧠 Free Mental Game Assessment Find out exactly what's holding your game back — takes 5 minutes and it's completely free. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment [https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment] 📖 Get the Book In the Zone Secrets: How to Get in the Zone at the Flip of a Switch — just cover shipping and it's yours. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/ [https://inthezonesecrets.com/] 👥 Join the Caveman Golf Winner's Circle Our free community for golfers who are serious about playing their best. Come join the tribe. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout [https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout] 📞 Free Coaching Call If you're ready to close the gap between the golfer you are and the golfer you know you can be — let's talk. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall [https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall]

The Internal Thermostat: Why You Keep Shooting the Same Score (And How to Finally Reset It)

You hit the ball better than ever. Your swing feels good. You are putting in the work. And yet you are still shooting the same scores you always shoot. That is not a skill problem. That is your internal thermostat...the setting your brain established based on what it believes is normal for you. And until you change what your brain believes about who you are, that thermostat will keep pulling you back. Every single round. Today Bo and Shannon go to the root cause of scoring plateaus and show you exactly how to break through using one of the most powerful documented stories in all of sports psychology and one of the most extraordinary transformations they have ever been part of. Here is what you will hear in this episode: — The Trevor Moawad SAT story: a student who received the wrong score, believed it, changed his behavior, and became one of the world's most successful magazine entrepreneurs, and what this means for the score ceiling currently on your game — Why your mental thermostat is not set by your ability but by your identity, and why technique improvements alone will never move it — The University of Washington Women's Golf Team: from a team score of 305 to 284 in one season, school records, and a player now on the LPGA Tour, and the exact identity exercise that unlocked all of it. — The E plus R equals O framework and why your response to the bad shot matters infinitely more than the bad shot itself — Why sometimes it is faster to act yourself into believing than it is to believe yourself into acting and what that looks like on the first tee — The five-step thermostat reset exercise to do today Bo and Shannon close with the spiritual foundation that sits underneath all of it  including Shannon's most direct statement yet about the unfair advantage that comes from walking in your identity in Christ. 🎧 Listen & Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Listen Here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-round-away/id1888007837] Spotify — Listen Here [https://open.spotify.com/show/02ZSL14OnfSbp211SlmTYa?si=3327bcfb1aa94963] 🧠 Free Mental Game Assessment Find out exactly what's holding your game back — takes 5 minutes and it's completely free. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment [https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment] 📖 Get the Book In the Zone Secrets: How to Get in the Zone at the Flip of a Switch — just cover shipping and it's yours. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/ [https://inthezonesecrets.com/] 👥 Join the Caveman Golf Winner's Circle Our free community for golfers who are serious about playing their best. Come join the tribe. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout [https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout] 📞 Free Coaching Call If you're ready to close the gap between the golfer you are and the golfer you know you can be — let's talk. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall [https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall]

From Panic Attack to Best Drive Ever: Sam Snead's Secret and the B.A.L.L. Reset

You are playing the best round of your life. Front nine 38. Your playing partner says this could be the day you finally break 80. You smile. You feel it. Then you snap hook your drive out of bounds. Triple bogey. Round gone.  That is a yellow light moment that went to red without a protocol. Today Bo and Shannon give you the protocol.  In Episode 7 they gave you the signal lights. Today they deliver the intervention. The B.A.L.L. Reset comes directly from the Moment of Truth chapter in In The Zone Secrets and takes you from red light back to green in as little as 10 seconds. On the course. Before the very next shot.  Here's what you will hear in this episode:  — The five situations that call for a B.A.L.L. Reset, including the one most golfers miss: the emotional high after a birdie that puts you in red light before the very next tee shot  — The score awareness trap: why doing the math on sixteen is one of the fastest ways to shift from playing golf to protecting a score  — B is for Breathe: Stanford Medicine's physiological sigh, the king of all breathing techniques, demonstrated live by Shannon on the episode  — How Dr. Izzy Justice's hard release trigger paired with the physiological sigh delivers the same calming effect as twenty minutes of meditation in under 10 seconds  — A is for Affirm: the T-chart exercise from the book that pre-programs your power talk before the round so you make withdrawals from a full account instead of scrambling under pressure  — The courtroom illustration: Bo and Shannon bring the faith dimension into the Affirm step in a way that applies on and off the golf course  — L is for Look Back: Sam Snead shaking so badly at the Greenbrier he needed both hands to tee the ball, then outdriving three champions by fifteen yards moments later using exactly this technique  — L is for Look Forward: how the final step delivers W.I.N. — What's Important Now — and creates laser-sharp focus on the only thing that matters, the next shot  — How to practice the B.A.L.L. Reset on the range so it runs automatically in 15 seconds when the moment arrives on the course  Bo closes with the Episode 9 tease: the Internal Thermostat and the University of Washington Women's Golf Team. From 305 to 284 in one season, school records, and a player now on the LPGA Tour.   Remember, you are just one round away.  Sign up for the One Round Away Challenge:   https://inthezonesecrets.com/oneroundaway [https://inthezonesecrets.com/oneroundaway] 🎧 Listen & Subscribe Apple Podcasts — Listen Here [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-round-away/id1888007837] Spotify — Listen Here [https://open.spotify.com/show/02ZSL14OnfSbp211SlmTYa?si=3327bcfb1aa94963] 🧠 Free Mental Game Assessment Find out exactly what's holding your game back — takes 5 minutes and it's completely free. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment [https://inthezonesecrets.com/assessment] 📖 Get the Book In the Zone Secrets: How to Get in the Zone at the Flip of a Switch — just cover shipping and it's yours. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/ [https://inthezonesecrets.com/] 👥 Join the Caveman Golf Winner's Circle Our free community for golfers who are serious about playing their best. Come join the tribe. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout [https://inthezonesecrets.com/winners-circle-checkout] 📞 Free Coaching Call If you're ready to close the gap between the golfer you are and the golfer you know you can be — let's talk. → https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall [https://inthezonesecrets.com/freecall]