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14 Ways to Cope with Workplace Stress
Workplace stress can be severe due to workplace changes, mergers and acquisitions, organizational changes, a missed promotion, an unforeseen demotion, bullying, conflicts with colleagues or broken employee-employer relationships. In Australia alone, stress related...
Mental Toughness Poems
Have you ever had one of those "I can't believe I didn't think of that before moments!"? I just did when I came across a poem I'd had on my study wall for several years when I was going through a difficult time in my life. The poem in question was Invictus by William...
Happy Easter from AQR
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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....