The Road to Miami
The Mental Roadmap to your highest potential as a Golfer
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The Road to Miami, as it is used in this book, is a metaphor for the journey that you travel through life in achieving your life’s purpose or goal. Miami is the destination in which we strive to achieve, either in our personal, professional or spiritual life. So, why the Title: The Road to Miami/ The Mental Roadmap to your highest potential as a Golfer. It started one day when I needed to explain to one of my clients, who at that time did not speak English or Spanish. I needed a translator to speak about the importance of outcome and process goals. The best way that I identified at that moment was to use a metaphor of a trip to Miami from Orlando, Florida where we were during the session. I asked my client, what can you do to get to your final destination of Miami from Orlando? From that moment, it started to be clear to her; that there was a need of a mental road map to get to her “Miami”, the outcome goal without emphasizing the destination of Miami, but more the map, symbolizing the process, which will take us from Orlando towards Miami. We started looking at her needs and developed short-term process goals to take her to the first short-term goal. Then we continued step by step accomplishing short-term process goals toward that outcome goal that was her Miami, winning major professional tournaments. I felt that the best way for a player at any age or culture to get the importance of the process to reach an outcome goal was to use this metaphor of the Road to Miami. This metaphor helped them value and pay more attention to the map, the journey to reach each outcome goal. It helped to illustrate what you as a player can control on your journey to your highest potential as a golfer. I share in these pages my personal story, perceptions, and experiences. I am providing to you my insights that I have gained while I was on my road to Miami. I include the exit that I took from my road to my Miami. To the awareness of taking the exit, to the acceptance that yes I am on a road, but I was not on my road, the one that I wanted to be. To accept and take responsibility for my story, for my doing and going in the wrong direction, to accept and be accountable for my decisions and to decide which way do I go now. Do I continue taking this exit, or turn around and find the road back to the right direction? When I took the time to stop and look at my life from the foundation, is when I started to find my road back to my Miami. Only then did I take a pause from being in transit on the wrong road. Only then did I take complete responsibility for myself, for my life that it was a gift from God, and that I was not taking good care of myself. Then I was able to commit to the steps necessary to make the changes that I needed to make, for me to be back on the road to my highest potential as a human being. So this is my personal journey.
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“The Road to Miami” is a metaphor for the journey that you travel through life in achieving your life’s purpose or goal. Miami is the destination in which we strive to achieve, either in our personal, professional or spiritual life. “The Road to Miami” is the result or the product of my experiences, as an athlete of high competitive level, coach, and counselor. Additionally the experiences of my clients that have been a “life schooling” of what works and does not work in the development of the fullest potential of an athlete. My system consists of three keys, which gives you a solid foundation for your mental game to achieve your highest potential, not only in golf but also in life in general. In addition to these three keys, there are seven tools that allow you to improve each area of your mental game. Enjoy your experience on the road that you choose towards your final destination as a golfer.
About the Author
As a formally educated psychotherapist and former competitive tennis player, with 27 years of practical applied experience training competitive athletes, Martha brings a unique perspective to the training arena. As the Director of Sports Psychology for more than a decade at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fl., she created and implemented the Mental Conditioning program for all sports including; tennis, golf, soccer, basketball, baseball, and ice hockey. Where tennis players such as; Tommy Haas, Jelena Jankovic, Maria Sharapova, among many others built the foundation for their tennis development. During this time she had the opportunity to work with all levels of golfers, from juniors to the professionals on the LPGA and PGA tours. She was instrumental in the mental development of golfers such as Paula Creamer, Sean O’Hair, David Gossett, Casey Wittenberg, Aree Song, Naree Song, Candy Hannemann, and Virada Nirapathpongporn, among many others. Martha worked closely with the world’s best tennis coaches such as: Nick Bollettieri and Gabe Jaramillo, training many elite professional tennis players. She traveled extensively throughout Europe and South America with Gabe Jaramillo, conducting training seminars for players and coaches. She has also trained some of the world’s most famous golf coaches, such as: Gary Gilchrist, Jonathan Yarwood, Tom Burnett, Andrew Park, among others, on the importance of combining the technical training with the mental training for their development of players. She has since gone on to implement this program in collaboration with other coaches for the development of amateur and professional golfers. Professional Golfers from the LPGA, JLPGA, Symetra Tour, Ladies European Tour, PGA, Korn Ferry Tour, European Tour, and PGA Latino America have sought her expertise in performance enhancement. In 2001, Martha was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame at the University of South Carolina Upstate, in honor and recognition of outstanding athletic achievement and for serving as an exemplary ambassador of their athletics program. Her success as a leader in the field of mental sports performance has been recognized by; CNN, as well as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television shows throughout Europe, South America, and Asia. Martha first introduced her Mental Conditioning System integrated with Pat Etcheberry’s Physical Training System at the Professional Tennis Registry International Symposium in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on February of 2014. Since then Martha and Pat has continued integrating their systems for the advancement of competitive athletes. Martha has continued to expand integrating her system and programs with coaches such as: Patricia Gonzalez, Mike Richards, Chip Koehlke, Bill Scott, and Club Med Academies, among many other coaches. Martha is the President of Martha Cobo Sports Performance, LLC and lives in Parkland, Florida with her husband Matt Withington. She may be contacted directly through her website at www.marthacobo.com