Golf Tips
By Tim Banick, For The West Side Newspaper
Hope you had a great summer and July 4th experience. This was an interesting summer, filled with fun, family, some golf, and recovery from golf-related aches and pains. As we get older, staying in playing shape is a part of golf.
For this quarterly golf tip I want to challenge your thinking. The following may seem a little abstract, but might lessen your stress level when improving your game. Golf is a process, not a golf swing. My golf swing might change from day to day, but the process I am building can only improve. There are no bad shots, just great shots, good shots, and process improvement opportunities.
A consultant in the IT Industry who I respect gave me the following five questions related to building a business process. What I have come to learn over the years is this is exactly how to approach the golf process.
Question #1: “What are you currently doing?”
Question #2: “What are you currently doing that is not needed?
Question #3: "What are you currently doing that you need to continue doing, but can be improved?”
Question #4: "What are you not doing that you know you should be doing?
Question #5: "What are you not doing that you should be doing, but you don’t know that you should be doing
Just for fun I ran these five questions through ChatGPT the other day, and it produced an exact relationship between golf and business, providing quite a bit of detail. The question posed to ChatGPT was “provide an analysis between the five business questions from Jim Proctor as compared to the golf process.”
What came back was amazingly detailed and provided a wonderful framework for building your own golf process, one that will last you a lifetime. The results are too long to list in this article. But with the content here, you can query this on your own and see what you think. Next quarter I will provide an example of how AI tools can analyze in minutes your golf process and your swing to give you immediate feedback of what is good, not so good, and how to get better. Until next time, happy golfing!.
