DAVE CHIN
Portland's Master Business Coach
Clarity Break Events
FREE Clarity Break Workshop, with lunch!
Thursday | September 18, 2025
11:30a - 1:00p
at the Beaverton Area Chamber of Commerce
Inner Excellence
Master Your Mindset to Maximize Your Business
Running a business takes determination and clarity. What happens when pressure mounts and the way forward feels uncertain?
Join Dave Chin for an engaging workshop based on Inner Excellence. A powerful guide created for elite athletes in high pressure environments, it’s been adapted for entrepreneurs.
This workshop will equip you with the mental resolve to consistently show up as your best self.
Mindset strategies to apply immediately.
What you will learn:
Stay focused and grounded even in periods of uncertainty
Lead with confidence and operate with purpose.
Build daily habits that fuel clarity and resilience
Break free from fear-based decisions
Lunch and workshop are offered at NO CHARGE!!
Comparison is the Thief of Joy
I love everything about golf! I love playing it. I love watching it in-person and even watching it on TV. One of my favorite ways to spend a few hours on Sundays are to watch tournaments. More often than not, the leader headed into Sunday screws up. It’s truly ponderous. How can a person play really good golf for 2-3 days and then mess up when pressure is on the line?
Jim Murphy, author of Inner Excellence is a professional golfer and he’s observed it too. He suggests that avoiding comparison is critical. Something Theodore Roosevelt knew all too well when he first said that “Comparison is the thief of joy.”
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Of course it’s important to do your best, but the moment you start comparing yourself to someone else, you introduce tension. This tension creeps in and you probably don’t even know it. In high stakes games, it doesn’t take much tension in your body to make the ball go completely off-course.
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Hitting fields are narrow. Distances are far. The penalty for missing the fairway can be dramatic. The other weekend I watched as the person who had been leading the entire tournament lost by one stroke. His competitor made a 64-foot putt on a previous hole that helped him pull ahead.
In most cases, when you have nothing to lose, you also have no tension in your body. The moment you start comparing yourself and see you have something to lose, that’s when the tension kicks in.
It can impact your golf game or really any other physical activity performed at a high level. For instance, the same is true in baseball. Oregon State University’s baseball team won the regionals and superregionals and then went to the world series. They were seeded #1 in their bracket against the top 8 teams in the nation – the 8th time OSU has been in the college world series. But, it doesn’t take much tension in baseball to throw things offline either. Tension in the body creates a lot of unnecessary foul balls. This year OSU ended their winning season at 48-16-1 after losing to Louisville.
There are lots of applications for this in business too. Come learn some of the positive ways these lessons can be leveraged as Dave Chin explores Inner Excellence by Jim Murphy on September 18th.
Golf for a Good Cause
The Beaverton Area Chamber of Commerce Golf Tournament happens September 26th at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Course. This is going to be fun on so many levels!
It’s a great opportunity to network for one thing and in a way that gets you direct access to decision-makers. There are tons of sponsorship opportunities if you’re ready to get the word out about your business. There’s a chance to win $5,000 if golf isn’t your thing but you like winning money. Oh and you can sign-up your foursome to play 18 holes with the best and brightest that Beaverton has to offer.
Join Dave on the Links!
This is one of Dave’s favorite events of the year and he’s hoping to get out there for at least a few holes. Can you make it? Signup today!
What are Clarity Breaks?
Clarity Breaks are a chance to step away from the day-to-day running of your business and spend 90 minutes focused on improving your business. You won't go it alone. Dave Chin, or one of his trusted guest presenters will be your guide and you’ll have the advantage of a mastermind of like-minded business owners sharing their ideas and biggest takeaways.
Dave is a proud member of the Beaverton Chamber’s Coaching Network
Clarity Breaks offered courtesy of
Beaverton Area Chamber of Commerce
