What Do You Do In Your Bowling Office?

You don’t have one? Well, let’s change that. Lately, I am hearing from bowlers more and more about their lack of focus when they bowl and how this is negatively affecting their scores more than anything else. Every bowler has some type of office in their life outside of bowling - whether it is an actual work office, a home office, or a school classroom. But how many bowlers think about an office in the bowling center? When these same bowlers go into their offices outside of their bowling lives, they probably are fairly successful in getting into the type of focus they need to accomplish whatever job they have to do. Maybe we should translate that into bowling terms. Think about it this way… the bowling concourse and bowlers’ area are your break room, and the approach is your office. Imagine a wall and door separating the bowlers’ area from the approach. As you step on the approach, you open the door to your office. When you are on the approach, you close the door behind you. Your bowling boss is only asking for ‘5 Seconds of Work’. I think we can all agree that is a pretty cool boss! But in those 5 seconds, you really have to work, and all that work entails is better intense focus. If you do that, you will start to realize that 5 seconds is not a lot of time to ask for, and then when you step back off the approach, you go back into the break room where that intense focus is not needed. If you start to separate more imaginatively the approach from the rest of the bowling center, you will start to believe in yourself to give your game that focus you have been lacking much more confidently because the time required is not a lot to ask for, and you are using your creativity to create your own personal space where no one can bother you - your bowling office.