As a business owner, I’m always looking for unique ways to present business ideas and concepts.

Recently, Phil Hawes, the owner of East Coast Golf in Bethesda, Maryland and the host of the radio program, Better Golf, shared a great golf concept with me that I want to share with you.

Mr Hawes stated that the more successful golfers have a ritual or routine before every shot. He called it the “Pre-Shot Routine”.

The Pre-Shot Routine consists for 4 steps –

1. Analyze Your Shot
2. Visualize Your Shot
3. Get into Alignment
4. Take the Shot

In business terms, this routine would be your goal setting process for your business or a business project.

The 1st Step – Analyze Your Shot could be called “Begin with End in Mind” (See Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People).

What are you trying to accomplish?

Where does your next shot have to go?

Where are you now?

How far do you have to go?

Is the shot left, right, uphill or downhill?

To improve your game (business or golf), you’ve got to know what you want to accomplish and why. Once you’ve analyzed your shot you, you must then commit to move forward. Goals focus you, guide you and keep you on track.

As the saying goes, “If you don’t know where you are going, any road will take you”.

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