What are you communicating to yourself with a statement like that?

            “Watch, I’m a lousy putter”

What are you telling yourself when you're out on the golf course?

            “Remember to be a lousy putter out here!”

Guess what? It's your belief that you're "a lousy putter" that is actually causing the problem!

YOU CREATED THAT BELIEF, probably because you hit some bad putts along the way. You picked up evidence for that belief that you were a lousy putter. So you reinforced it and it came back to you. You now have a new internal mantra:

"Hey, you're a bad putter. Make sure you miss this."

That's the essence of what you're saying, even though you may think you’re saying or thinking something else.

THE BELIEF THAT YOU ARE A BAD PUTTER IS WHAT IS ENERGIZING THE EXPERIENCE AND DELIVERING THE OUTCOME OF BAD PUTTS.

It's almost as though you were ordering "bad putting" from room service at a hotel. The act of focusing on “bad putting” or “I don’t putt well” is you putting in the call to the front desk. “Give me more bad putting, please! I want to miss this putt and I want to miss more putts.”

What do you believe?  What are you reinforcing about yourself?  What are you ordering from room service?

When you repeat the mantra, "I hope I don't miss it," what you're really saying is, "Miss it." The “I hope I don’t” vanishes! Our imagination sees only the pictures in the messages we send.