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How To Visualise The Day Away
Visualisation, the forming a mental image of the day ahead, is now an important part of my ‘power up’ morning routine. I used to be prone to regular panic attacks, which were driven by a fear of failure, when faced with the uncertainty of the day ahead. Meetings,...
Achieve Success By Living These 3 Rules
There are a few life rules that anyone, no EVERYONE, can use and should use to achieve success. These 3 life rules are easy to understand and you don’t need to be smart or talented to adopt them. However, they are hard to implement but only because they are...
Managing Your Mindset
WHY YOUR JOB SPEC SHOULD INCLUDE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MANAGING YOUR MINDSET Too many people physically turn up for work but they are mentally absent. They coast through the day without any clear focus on achieving their objectives. This mental absenteeism disrupts their...
Why Walking The Walk Quickly Is Important
One of my former colleagues used to assess potential hires on the basis of how quickly they walked. His reasoning was that if you were focused and alert in mind this would translate to a brisk pace. Similarly, if you were ambling towards your destination you lacked...
Mental Toughness – managing adversity, setback … and even trauma?
I am indebted to Marzena Jankowska for drawing attention to an interesting study she came across in the April 2011 edition of New Scientist which contained an interesting feature on Mental toughness! This described the idea that most of us think that traumatic...
Increase Confidence – Don’t Be Scared, Be Prepared
I have been doing some public speaking on mental toughness recently and like many people, I am distinctly uncomfortable throughout the public speaking process. My anxiety heightens in the hours beforehand and over the first few minutes of the presentation. I look...