May 5, 2017 | ASEAN, Coaching, Mental Toughness
I love taking Fridays off work. It’s a real bonus, looking forward to and enjoying a long weekend. Somehow having Friday off means I can get a jump-start on the weekend and get more done and enjoy it more. This makes sense of course – there’s 50% more time available...
Apr 28, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
WHY THIS ONE WORD HELPS YOUR EMOTIONAL CONTROL Controlling and managing your emotions is one of the most valuable skills there is. It reduces the chance of you saying and/or doing something often ‘out of character’ that you almost always instantly regret. This...
Apr 28, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
I’m a habitual apologiser for things I have done wrong and also for things I haven’t. Either way for me, it’s an attempt to get back on a level with a person and to move things forward. However “I’m sorry” easily becomes a habit and the default phrase to use in any...
Apr 28, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness, Sports
MENTAL TOUGHNESS AND MMA Whilst scrolling through the ESPN home page for the latest San Antonio Spurs basketball score I noticed that Aussie (well, born in En Zed!!) Robbie Whitaker had beaten Ronaldo Souza in the MMA “Mixed Martial Arts”. I watched a short promo for...
Apr 28, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
What you think and feel determines the way you act and behave. So, if you are disciplined, resolute and focused in your mind then that’s the way you will likely act and behave. The key is to first make it a conscious thought and then build on it, day by day, until it...
Apr 24, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
When hiring and leading a team I have been always been attracted to people with a strong intrinsic motivation to succeed. In our business, Ambition, we recruited to our cultural values “no dickheads, no passengers” and as our name suggested, ambition, or motivation,...
