May 22, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
Sleep used to be the filler between the waking hours and subject to the lottery of alarm calls, alcohol and infants. Developing good sleep habits was never part of a disciplined routine to help improve my performance or wellbeing. I now have a sleep ritual to develop...
May 22, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
4 Ways To Make Instant Changes To Your Behaviour I love the work of Benjamin P Hardy, the headline and first line of his post below resonated because I regularly espouse the benefits of making small incremental changes to your routine. I think the little steps are the...
May 22, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
I met up with an old work colleague this morning after three years absence. As we swapped stories we realised that we had both stopped drinking alcohol several years ago and it has changed our lives. I was a moderately heavy drinker, generally spirits and wine when...
May 16, 2017 | Education, Mental Toughness, Steve Oakes
What does the research say? Research using the mental toughness model and the MTQ48 in education is relatively new. St Clair-Thompson, Bugler, Robinson, Clough, McGeown and Perry (2014) carried out three studies examining the relationship between mental toughness and...
May 15, 2017 | Education, Mental Toughness
Research undertaken in Northern Ireland shows that SEN teachers who score highly on mental toughness cope better with pupils who present challenging behaviour in the classroom. Stress and burnout, as a result of having to deal with challenging behaviour, is one of the...
May 12, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
I got on the train to the city one day last week in time to hear two schoolboys, probably 16-17 years old, earnestly discussing an issue one of them was having with a fellow student. I wasn’t really listening but when one of them summarised his situation as “no...
May 12, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
In the past few years I have read many articles about the importance of the morning routine on the quality of your daily performance. Most people, myself included, would agree that a structured and consistent morning routine can set you up with the right mindset to...
May 12, 2017 | ASEAN, Mental Toughness
One of the qualities of mental toughness is being able to keep on going when times are tough, pushing through new mental and physical barriers to achieve one’s goals. This resolve and perseverance often uses all 4 C’s of mental toughness at once, namely Control,...
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...
