Many set goals for their golf game each year. I also suggest that you create intentions for what you want to achieve with your play. So what's the difference? With goals you are looking at the starting point and with intentions you are looking at the end results and imagining you have already achieved your goal. Here's how it works. Imagine yourself sitting down with a beverage and reflecting on 2012. It's December 31st, 2012 and you are amazed at how you've done this year. You hear yourself talking about your achievements.

Here are some examples:

"I lowered my handicap by 5 and feel great about my game! People have commented on how I've improved and that I’m so focused when I walk up to each shot. I'm really enjoying each game."

"My lessons with the golf pro have helped my drives and I'm hitting farther than ever. It's great to see the ball fly through the air and land in the perfect spot. I'm more fit and my swing feels great."

These are just a couple. Get a piece of paper and take some quiet time to think what you would like to be seeing, hearing or saying at the end of this year. Write it down. Be specific. Then put it away. What you are doing with this exercise is really opening your mind by making an internal representation of it and by putting yourself in that moment. You are planting it in your unconscious mind, the part of our mind that is the goal getter but you are aware of what you want consciously, the goal setter. You are more likely going to be motivated as you know the feeling or what reaching that goal gives you.