After watching the moving Beautiful Mind, I began researching John Nash’s Nobel prize winning thesis on game theory.  It will be very difficult to condense all of his brilliance into a concise email.  My goal is to give you a few good points to think about out of the volumes of information I have reviewed.

Nash believed that the human mind could accomplish anything with mathematical ideas. We are going to focus on his strategy from his perspective. Nash describes cooperative games to mean a situation involving a set of players, pure strategies, and payoffs.  He visualized a transaction as the outcome of either a process of negotiation or else independent strategizing by individuals each pursuing his or her own interest.  Instead of defining a solution directly, he suggested developing a strategy that ask what reasonable condition would need to be satisfied, given the any division of gains.  He then posited four conditions and, using an ingenious mathematical argument, showed that, if the axioms (needs of the parties) held, then unique solution existed that maximized the product of the participants’ utilities. Essentially, he reasoned, how gains are divided reflects how much the transaction is worth to each party and what other alternatives each have. This gives him the highest possibility of successes by mathematically analyzing the likelihood of the individual result. Therefore, predicting the future outcome of any negotiations.

Clearly, golf is a game. Does the Game Theory apply? The answer is  . . . YES. If we visualize the outcome of any round based on historical situations, then the result will be similar to the last 100 rounds we played. The only way you change the equilibrium of your golf game is to change the strategy. This could be taking a course management lesson or changing your swing at GolfTEC. It possibly, might be as simple as changing the environment and taking a vacation in Scotland.

“If you’re going to develop exceptional ideas, it requires a type of thinking that is not simply practical thinking.”  John Nash

By Forrest Blake

In today’s environment we are forced to be doers and not thinkers.  Our time is spent scheduling daily task, without consideration of whether those tasks have any relationship to our ultimate goals.  Saturated with e‑mails, phone calls, pages, meetings and rushing home to the family and a whole additional set of time sensitive tasks.  With all of these “To do’s” and interruptions, how could a person ever clear their mind to think, especially focused thinking? The difference between computers and humans is that humans have the ability to adapt to real-world situations. We think creatively, out of the box, or do we? Computers react to input form the user, then quickly process the task with the underling software program. Sound familiar?

Let’s look at the benefits or creating a habit of focused thinking?

1. Gives the ability to appraise likely solutions to problems.

2. Vision of the entire scope of a project before it begins.

3. Understanding of the ramifications of each action.

4. Developing strategies to eliminate wasted time.

5. Effective decision making.

6. Eliminate starting projects with the wrong set of criteria, established without much thought, and then having to start over again.

7. Time to surround yourself with the best people to support and execute any business activity.

8. Reflecting on mistakes to make them a learning experience.

9. Identifying your talents, then exploiting them. Delegating everything else to people, who’s talents you don’t possess.

10. The ability to ask the right questions.

Being the CEO of three companies, focused thinking is mandatory. Most of the vision, actions and results come out of a daily routine of focused thinking.

I cherish quite time I have to think. Usually, it is between 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. in the morning when there are no distractions.  Sometimes, I just sit and stare out the window as the sun rises in the horizon. It doesn’t take long until the mind is clear and the ideas began to flow. The key element for anyone is to make the commitment to spend time with their thoughts. If we could just slow down long enough to think, amazing things will happen.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” Joel Barker

“Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.” Napoleon Hill

“Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in their hands or miters on their heads, shifts the scene of pleasure with endless variety, bids all the forms of beauty sparkle before them, and gluts them with every change of visionary luxury.” Johnson

“The shorter way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.” Mozart

“Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.”

Ray Knight

“Often he who does too much does too little.” Italian Proverb

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The owner of 12 GolfTEC Centers here in Sothern California, Sky Golf LLC, has great news on their continuing success of its business.  The fiscal year end was August 31^st and we are happy to report an increase in EBIDAT of 62%. During one of the most difficult times for discretionary retail in the US we have now posted two years of in a row of profitability. The expectations this year is to increase another $200,000 and begin to drive towards our goal of a million in EBIDAT. Gross Same Store Sales revenue increased over 20% in 2011 which is in addition to 27% increase posted in 2010. These numbers don’t include the successful launch of Fairway Vacations and the continuation of the growth of our golf social network MyGolfPeople.com.

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MyGolfPeople.com has been recently converted from a paid site is a free Social networking site for CONNECTING golfers with each other. The website also focuses on enhancing aspects of an individual’s golf experience, both on and off the course. The site is a blend of what Facebook has to offer and search features of Match.com, all focused on the golfing population. In addition, we have found that the site and its features has been a great tool to retain and get new clients for the core business of GolfTEC.

Leverage the Internet to create a social environment, where golfers can find playing partners, participate or host events, share ideas, forms and create or join a group. This environment also provides golfers with other services, such as rebate central, 2 for 1 golf, events, group management, chat features, video uploads, blogs, travel and more.

We found the paid model was limiting the possible organic nature of the site. With marketing dollars and a sign up package of over $300, we are expecting strong membership growth over the next few years.

The recent IPO of Linkedin at $400 per users, sets the new standard of valuation for Social Media companies. A small investment in marketing and hiring and an advertising sales executive will greatly increase the adoption of the site and value of the company.

Contact Forrest Blake at 310-850-2381 or fblake@golftec.com

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Many of the GolfTEC clients want to travel to premium destinations to play the best courses in the world. Fairway Vacations specializes in creating custom golf packages and escorted tours to the premier golf destinations in the world. Our goal is to provide “Once in a Lifetime” experiences to our clients and their friends.

The golf travel is a 16 Billion dollar industry. The UK was $400M in 2010. There will be direct effort to build up our Scotland tours for a variety of reasons.

Contact Forrest Blake at 310-850-2381 or fblake@golftec.com

GolfTEC has 140 locations in the US and Mexico. The Canadian market is under development in 2012.

Sky Golf, LLC currently owns 12 GolfTEC improvement centers in Southern California and controls franchise territories that include the Ventura, San Fernando Valley, Riverside County, San Bernardino County, Temecula, Orange County and Los Angeles.

Eight of the twelve stores Sky Golf controls were acquired in a roll up in 2008 and 2009. The poorly performing roll-up stores were successfully integrated and turned around to create the largest GolfTEC franchise operation in the country.

OVERVIEW:

• World leader in golf instruction
• Founded in 1995 by PGA Professionals, Joe Assell and Mike Clinton
• Provides fact-based golf instruction by combining patented technology with the expertise of Certified Personal Coaches
• Began franchising in 2004
• Over 140 Improvement Centers nationwide
• 250,000 Clients
• 20% Lesson Market share
• Over 2,500,000 lessons taught

THE TECHNOLOGY:

• GolfTEC uses a combination of state-of-the-art technology and Certified Personal Coaches to help golf enthusiasts create a fundamental swing
• Patented g-SWING technology combines digital video, impact analysis, biofeedback technology and motion-evaluation technology to provide fact-based instruction
• During a lesson, GolfTEC students wear a small harness with multiple sensors that measure the golfer’s key movements through the golf swing
• Proprietary database of over 150 PGA & LPGA Tour Professionals provides ideal measurements to look for at crucial moments in the swing
• WebLesson® technology allows clients to see a video and audio recap of their lessons from anywhere they can access the internet

THE COACHES:

• GolfTEC employs over 400 Certified Personal Coaches across the country
• At the end of 2009, GolfTEC will employ 3% of all PGA Professionals
• All Certified Personal Coaches are required to attend and pass a comprehensive PGA training program known as GolfTEC University (GTU)
• GolfTEC Coaches have won numerous awards for their teaching excellence including PGA
• Section Teacher of the Year, Golf Digest Top Teachers in the State, PGA Teacher of the Year, Best
• Golf Lesson and more

PRODUCTS AND SERVICES

• Personalized instruction in private learning bays
• Video swing analysis
• Online lesson review and follow-up instruction (WebLesson®) available 24 hours a day
• Custom club fitting
• Golf equipment and merchandise
• Customized improvement plans and lesson programs
• Corporate Entertainment events

For more information please contact Forrest Blake at 310-850-2381 or fblake@golftec.com

Forrest Blake Wow what a day at Valencia Country Club last Friday. The front 9 I was working on my take away and couldn’t make solid contact with the ball. What I realized is that trying to get the club outside caused me to push my hands out and effect the top of my swing. So, on 12 I gave up and made sure my right arm was tight to my body, which gave me a solid shoulder turn and my game came back. I need to hold firm with my theory that the place to practice the golf swing is at GolfTEC and once you are on the course the only thing you focus on is the target. I learned this from Dr. Joseph Parent the author of Zen Golf in several personal playing lessons.

Golfshot – Rounds golfshot.comShot 78 golfing at Valencia Country Club.

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It‘s so hard!

Part of the reason is all the exactness of variables needed to play average golf. Great golf is a whole different discussion. There is less of a margin of error than in most other sports. Think about the physics of golf.  We are attempting to deliver a strike at over one hundred miles per hour at the center of the clubface, which is at the end of a forty-five inch shaft into the back of a ball. And we need to do it within one or two degrees of square to hit it into the fairway.  When you play St. Andrews in Scotland, you need to factor in the thirty-five mile per hour wind, as well as the rain and the cool temperatures.

To find out more about playing Great Golf go to GolfTEC. To book golf travel to Scotland go to  Fairway Vacations. To join “Golf’s Social Network” go to MyGolfPeople.

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