We all know that despite everything that he did wrong, and everything that was done to him, said to him and about him, Tiger Woods NEVER stopped trying to get back to the top,

Each time he went back out and failed or had to withdraw for yet another injury, or other challenge, in his head, he was resolved: he would always return to give it another shot.

However, there are two very important things that I believe most people completely missed, as useful lessons from Tiger Woods’ recent success – which they should pay serious attention to:

The first is something that could have destroyed Tiger Woods himself, had he given in to it.

NB: I clocked 49 last Saturday, 6th of July 2019, and THIS is the message I felt led to share for this week, as I go forward in my journey to achieve more of my dreams. I hope you find the ideas I shared useful in your own journey. Cheers!

I LOVE how so many people have hopped on to the amazing unprecedented turnaround Masters Victory recently achieved by Tiger Woods after a heartbreakingly LONG dry spell in his career.

We all know his story. So I will not recount the specifics of how he went crashing from grace to (near) grass in his personal and professional life.

We all know that despite everything that he did wrong, and everything that was done to him, said to him and about him, Tiger Woods NEVER stopped trying to get back to the top,

Each time he went back out and failed or had to withdraw for yet another injury, or other challenge, in his head, he was resolved: he would always return to give it another shot.

However, there are two very important things that I believe most people completely missed, as useful lessons from Tiger Woods’ recent success – which they should pay serious attention to:

The first is something that could have destroyed Tiger Woods himself, had he given in to it.

I have no idea how he used his personal time, but it is apparent from the historic success he has recently added to his amazing tally of record breaking achievements, he knew how to protect himself from the negativity of others.

Specifically, I refer to the bad habit of TV/Radio personalities, opinion leaders, analysts and others, of wanting to dismiss a person based on their personal assessment of him from the OUTSIDE, when they have no knowledge of what’s going on INSIDE of him.

Quite often, these are people who enjoy access to captive audiences of trusting enthusiasts who value their opinions – and often accept their judgment as accurate.

These kinds of people are often called “EXPERTS”

And the truth is that we need experts. They are useful. They help us gain insights we would otherwise not have, by sharing the information they obtain through investigation and analysis of trends and happenings in their fields of specialization.

However, as Cynthia Kersey explains in her book UNSTOPPABLE 45 Powerful Stories of Perseverance and Triumph from People Just Like You…the domain of the DREAMER (who has nothing to show besides an enduring passion, determination, courage, stick-to-it-iveness – aka persistence etc) is often alien territory for experts.

Experts want to assess you based on what exists or has been done before. So, if what you’re trying to do, in their world view, has never been done before, they are likely to conclude you cannot.

And when people whose opinions are so widely respected choose to speak with the authority they have, about your chances of success, it would be a literal nail in the coffin for your ambitions.

When powerful opinion leaders, who enjoy massive followership announce that they believe you’re finished, those who follow them are likely to conclude the same thing.

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An excellent video I encountered on LinkedIn.com few weeks ago drives home this point quite well, by showings clips of some of such experts (sports analysts), speaking dismissively about Tiger Woods chances of ever making a successful comeback.

See subtitled screenshots I took showing transcripts of what they said…

1. “The short game is gone. His health is gone.”

2. “The next press release Tiger Woods should release, should be ‘I’m retiring’.

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3. “I have considered him now for the last 5,6 years, a former golfer.”

4. “You’re washed, just give up while you’re ahead. Retire with some dignity.”

5. “The Tiger Woods that we all knew, he will never ever be that guy again.”

The video ends with a clip of Tiger raising his head slightly and smiling knowingly – no words are needed

Now that Tiger has gone ahead and done it, see how BAD they look and sound when you listen to them.

But you must realize that when they said what they did back then, many in their audience would have nodded in agreement with them!

And that’s the way the world is. Most people do not like to do their own thinking. They want others to do the hard work (and thinking in HARD WORK!) and then tell them.

The good thing about having people write you off is that you can use it challenge yourself – and prove to the world that you believe in yourself, more than they can.

To achieve authentic uncommon success, you simply must set yourself apart from the crowd and look inwards – especially when you notice others are using your past failures or mistakes to write you off. Do NOT let it get to you.

This brings me to a second and final point I want to draw your attention to, about what Tiger Woods went through to succeed:

Did you notice that very few people, if at all any, were willing to come out publicly to announce that they believed – in spite of what the experts mentioned above had publicly opined – that Tiger would (NOT COULD, I mean WOULD) still win big again e.g. at the Masters?

Did you notice that?

Have you seen any video, read any article or listened to any audio/podcast in which anyone stuck their necks out to say – contrary to what the “experts” had said – that Tiger would still go on to win?

I have not. If you have, please send me the links or details. I would LOVE to congratulate THAT person(s) for either being psychic or amazingly fanatical in their belief in Tiger.

In essence I’m saying Tiger Woods, when it came to the crunch, had to be his own Number 1 fan and believe unwaveringly that he could do it, no matter what happened, and no matter what others thought or said.

And he did just that.

However, what most people fail to realize is that there is a very important MENTAL or PSYCHOLOGICAL aspect to succeeding under those kinds of conditions in which everyone else thinks you should pack it in – except YOU!

You see, to achieve exceptional success of this kind, you need to have a DEEP sense of inner knowing about who you are, and what you are truly capable of achieving.

But this kind of self-knowing will not happen if you have not diligently applied yourself to the business of pushing yourself to exceed known limits to achieve at constantly higher levels.

You cannot be lazy, laid back or an armchair theorist kind of person and achieve this kind of result.

That’s why Tiger Woods succeeded. He had lived a life in which he IMMERSED himself in his golfing vocation tirelessly, from a very young age. The successes he achieved before he crashed testified to this fact.

And it was from THAT experience that he undoubtedly drew the needed inspiration to ignore naysayers. He knew what he’d done before, and what he could do again. So he set about doing it.

It was that simple.

Tiger Woods has shown how to respond to attempts that may be made to dismiss you as you try to achieve what others consider unlikely or impossible for you to do.

In particular, his message should resonate with those who have had some kind of setback and are trying to bounce back from failure (which is really only TEMPORARY DEFEAT) to authentic success.

What he did was to simply apply timeless wisdom used by so many other achievers in the past:

HE IGNORED NAYSAYERs & REFUSED TO QUIT.

To paraphrase James R. Cook from his book “The Startup Entrepreneur”:

“The only entrepreneur who fails is the one who quits trying to succeed”

Let no one tell you that you cannot succeed. They did not create you – and can therefore not define you, or your limits! They do not know you enough to be THAT sure.

Go out there and keep going after your dream – and your success will be INEVITABLE.

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PS: I clocked 49 last Saturday, 6th of July 2019, and THIS is the message I felt led to share for this week, as I go forward in my journey to achieve more of my dreams. I hope you find the ideas I shared useful in your own journey.

Cheers!