Your World. Your Future. Your Choice. Part 2

There’s a story I once heard about a Vietnam veteran by the name of Colonel Hall. Specifically, he was a prisoner of war (POW). Conditions in the North Vietnamese prison camps were terrible. POWs were tortured and starved as a matter of course. This particular POW lived in a 7.5 square foot cell. That kind of confinement is enough to drive most men crazy after a while. Not Colonel Hall though. The officer was a lover of golf and to keep himself sane, he trained his mind to visualize himself playing a full eighteen holes of golf every day. He visualized everything from where to hit the ball to even putting his socks on before getting to the course. When he was finally released in 1973, he managed to play a game of golf. He scored his handicap, even though he hadn’t so much as picked up a club in over seven years. In case you’re wondering, no, he didn’t spend time getting back in shape either. He basically walked out of a tiny box and six weeks later golfed the game of his life. The mind is a powerful th