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Power Up and Power Down – Create a Successful Mindset
Mentally tough people generally achieve a higher level of performance and wellbeing because they have a successful mindset to power through the day without being distracted or diverted from making things happen. The ability to ‘Power Up and Power Down’ in the first...
When The Going Gets Tough and Nine Other Ancient Proverbs About Mentally Tough People
Ancient proverbs. Old wise sayings. Old wives tales. We all grew up with these simple statements often based around common sense. These are my favourite top ten ancient proverbs that relate to mental toughness and the MTQ48 4C’s of Control, Commitment, Challenge and...
How to Overcome Adversity
I am always buoyed by reading stories of people who transform their hardships into successful outcomes. They usually always need an incredibly resolute and positive mindset to overcome circumstances that the rest of us couldn’t imagine and thereby overcome adversity....
Is ‘Chill’ The New Leadership Lexicon?
One of the important benefits of mental toughness in leadership is being able to control how emotion affects you and those around you. Certainly I found as a leader, that when the pressure was on and we were facing complex issues and pressing deadlines, I wanted the...
Improve Sales Performance – How To Sell More Fish and Financial Services
Sales is a tough business to survive and succeed in and how to be improve sales performance can be challenging. Whether you work in recruitment or you’re selling houses, fish or financial services it can be a rollercoaster ride of emotion. One day it is champagne and...
You Can Build Mental Toughness
TWO REASONS LE BRON JAMES IS WRONG ABOUT MENTAL TOUGHNESS Around the dinner table, my sons and I talk basketball and homework, in that order. We’re Bucks, OKC Thunder and Spurs fans and with the playoffs less than a month away there’s plenty of interest in the...