How can it be that an athlete this talented suddenly cannot win?

True, he’s had injuries and personal problems but to watch Tiger Woods play golf and try to do the things he used to do so well – short game and putting – is sad.

Woods, it turns out is as human as the rest of us.  When he gets down on his luck succeeding is tougher.

When we have a crisis of confidence – and it happens quite often in life – the solution is not more pressure, more anxiety or more outside help.

It requires us to adhere to this powerful phrase that I like to repeat often:  “Be the fine person you are”.

That is enough.

Trying to be what you are not will never work for long.

Pressuring yourself to make changes with which you are uncomfortable is not playing your best game.

Recalling the abilities that you already have is the message we should keep in our heads.

I like to repeat:  “you’ve done something like this before, you can do it again”.

All the life coaches and motivational books in the world cannot cure a personal crisis in confidence the way spending 100% of your time focused on being the best that you can.

After all, that’s how we all achieved our original success in the first place.

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