May 12, 2017 | Education, Employability, Mental Toughness
What is Mental Toughness? Personality can be defined as an individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting. Key to this is Mental Toughness which explains why individuals behave the way they do. In other words, it is the thinking element of...
May 9, 2017 | Mental Toughness
What do we mean by this and why do we bother? In Engineering, a design or process is efficient if it maximizes the amount of work done, while minimizing the resources used (raw materials, time, labour, fuel, etc). An efficient design should do everything it is...
May 5, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
I enjoy reading articles about how to build mental toughness in a specific context that also have a broader application. Here the reason to be cheerful is that you’re living in Colorado and hang out at the Cross Fit gym in E.78th Avenue in Thornton. Being a combi...
May 5, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
If you have started the day a little flat, here’s a routine to use to feel happier and lead to improving wellbeing. It’s “wellbeing on the run” although its all about walking. All you need is half an hour. An hour is better but half an hour is all you need to make a...
May 5, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
IF YOU WANT TO GO THE DISTANCE, YOU HAVE TO RISK THE DARKNESS Let’s say this up front and right away, I’m not a marathon runner but the above quote and subsequent article by Jonathan Beverly, who IS a marathon runner, captured my attention, imagination and interest in...
May 5, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
As a mental toughness expert, I subscribe to the psychometric measure MTQ48 and its scientifically validated framework developed by the rock stars of mental toughness, Peter Clough and Doug Strycharczyk. Their “survive and thrive” definition of mental toughness as...
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...
