Jun 19, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
Last Christmas I was the lucky recipient, thank you Jeremy Tan, of the amazing book ‘Thinking, Fast and Slow’ published in 2011 by Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman. It summarises the work in all three phases of his incredible career; namely his early work on...
Jun 19, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
Rude and aggressive people are everywhere. They are abusive and dismissive, use insults like normal people use complements, they interrupt and are often poor listeners. Sometimes they are oblivious to their behaviour and how their approach impacts on others. Those...
Jun 19, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
Okay, I admit the title of this post may be misleading because whilst these 6 ways to stay calm are easy to understand, they are much harder to adopt as part of your ongoing persona. One of the key characteristics and strengths of mentally tough people is that they...
Jun 19, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
I have had different conversations with two close friends in the past few weeks. Both had experienced a series of personal and work related setbacks of a roughly similar magnitude. I could personally relate to both situations and also personally relate to their...
Jun 19, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
I’m envious of Henrik Edberg and not just because he lives on the west coast of Sweden. He also writes in a beautifully practical style about simplifying life and making things happen. Here is one article of Henrik’s I really like about adopting routines that can make...
Jun 19, 2017 | Doug Strycharczyk, Mental Toughness
Often raised as an issue in the workplace and often associated with workload or pressure, tiredness or fatigue is one of the most common complaints that Doctors come across in the surgeries. According to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, at any given time, one in...
Jun 19, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
Confidence and being confident is such an important and magical quality because it gives you added self-belief in your ability to succeed and make good things happen. If you don’t have it, you want some. If you have lost it, you want it back and if you have it...
Jun 12, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
I was a shy, spotty, gangly and goofy teenager when I read a quote that changed my life forever. It was one of many by brilliant Irish playwright and poet, Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, but this one became my lifetime mantra. “Be yourself, everyone else is...
Jun 12, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
Whilst I focus on my mental fitness through the MTQ48 mental toughness framework and routines, there’s no doubt that being physically fit also helps with your mental wellbeing. Here Robin Hill from wyza.com explains a new way of getting physically fit that takes only...
Jun 12, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
My father often used the phrase “fortune favours the brave” and from a similar vintage, golfer Gary Player was quoted as saying “the harder I work the luckier I get”. As a result I grew up knowing that people who do things and make things happen are often in the right...
