Break It Down
Divide your performance into small, achievable blocks. Each block is its own complete challenge — what happened before doesn't carry in.
A different approach to the mental side of your game.
I wasn't upset — I could still achieve my goals despite a couple of bad shots.
During a high school golf match, I started with two shots out of bounds — left. By every measure, my round should have spiraled. It didn't.
My goal was never to hit every shot perfectly. I'd broken the round into three-hole blocks. Each block had one simple target: two greens in regulation and a single one-putt. Two bad shots in the first hole couldn't erase a block I hadn't played yet.
When I turned in my scorecard, the opposing coach asked how I'd kept my composure. I played even par the rest of the way. It wasn't talent — it was structure. Small goals made the bad shots matter less and the process matter more.
That realization became ZenPogo.
Every great performance is built from small, repeatable wins.
Divide your performance into small, achievable blocks. Each block is its own complete challenge — what happened before doesn't carry in.
A missed shot only lives in the block it happened in. When that block closes, you reset. No spiraling. No baggage. Just the next block.
Process replaces pressure. When you're locked on a specific, attainable goal, anxiety has nowhere to take root. The chaos stays outside.
A pogo stick is pure, unpredictable energy — bouncing in every direction, never the same twice. Most athletes know that feeling: the errant shot, the missed spare, the score that starts to spiral.
ZenPogo is the practice of sitting at the center of that chaos — still, composed, and focused on the only thing that matters right now: the next block.
Not controlling the chaos. Finding calm within it.