Apr 21, 2017 | Coaching, Mental Toughness
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...
Apr 21, 2017 | Coaching, Mental Toughness
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...
Apr 13, 2017 | Newsletter
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Apr 10, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
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...
Apr 10, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
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...
Apr 10, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
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....
Apr 10, 2017 | ASEAN, Leadership, Mental Toughness
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...
Apr 10, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
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...
Mar 31, 2017 | ASEAN, 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...
Mar 31, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
Choosing a positive mental state today is the most important decision of the day and the key to get mentally fit therefore my early morning ritual becomes imperative in achieving that. If I can get mentally fit and ready for the day I believe I can do anything. One of...