I sent a long text to a  student of mine today. The parts that don't apply to most, I'll chop out, and instead focus on the parts that many can use. If you read the text as a conversation between me, the student/golfer, and a putting-specific instructor, it should make sense.

I encouraged the student to "be a bit more athletic about the putts in the 'makeable' range. Line up, make sure that everything is aimed where you want it to be, and then take a last look at the hole for speed. When you look back at the ball, GO almost immediately. Be more athletic."

I also wrote "you can’t expect to make a putt, or even think that you should make 50% of your 8-footers, or whatever. This may just be me, but I have always just tried to hit a good putt. You can hit a great putt and a spike mark or something you didn’t see can deflect your ball off-line. You can’t expect to make a putt (or expect to miss it), but you can expect and ask yourself to hit a 'good putt' and then accept whatever the result is."

I then wrote about how "I’m watching a Padraig Harrington video in the background and he just said 'You can’t use the result to determine whether you did it right or wrong. Whether you did it right or wrong is here (points down at where the ball was), the result is a bonus.”

I've queued the video up to that point here:

When you're done watching that, skip ahead to 7:45 to watch another good part.