Daily Improvement
How do you measure success? For most people, especially those operating in high-performance environments, success is almost always linked to results. It’s the job title. The size of the contract. Whether the team won at the weekend. It’s promotions, profit margins, social status, and external validation. These are the visible markers of success. The scoreboard […]
Being Busy Isn’t a Superpower
I used to wear busy like a badge of honour. Back-to-back appointments, an overflowing inbox, never enough hours in the day. I was always in motion, constantly doing, fixing, helping, chasing. If you’d looked at my calendar, you’d think I was the most productive person on the planet. And for a long time, I believed […]
Secrets to Maximising Your Time and Energy
Productivity is the not-so-secret superpower for achieving success. Despite what many people may think, i’s not about the amount of time you put in, it’s all about the way you spend time on the work you need to get done. We all have limited hours in the day, days in the week, weeks in the month, […]
Managing Pressure Like A Pro
Techniques for Thriving Under Stress “Everyone has a gap between what they are capable of and what they deliver under pressure. The best manage that gap.” If you want to improve your performance in any area of your life, then the way that you look at and manage stress is going to impact this. Stress […]
How do you talk to yourself?
We often talk about the power of great coaches, those special individuals that are able to see things in you that you aren’t yet able to see for yourself. The ones that can effortlessly connect and support in a way that brings out the best in you. Often these individuals are incredible communicators. They not […]
Resilience: Stop running from failure.
Why do we worry so much about avoiding failure when it teaches us so much? One of my favourite quotes about failure is from JK Rowling who said “Some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something. Unless you have lived so cautiously, you might not have failed at […]
What traits makes up a great leader?
When you think of great leaders’ people often depict one outstanding individual who rose through the ranks to become the intellect and power behind their team or organisation. They are seen as the great hope who is responsible for the success and growth of the team, the individual who will also protect it from pitfalls […]
What makes up a high performance team?
When you picture a high-performance team, what image comes to mind? Is it a championship winning sports team? An extraordinarily successful corporate business? Or perhaps a family unit that pulls together in an exceptional way to get the best out of each other? The phrase “High Performance Team” often means something different to all of […]
When you feel like quitting, remember why you started.
As creatures of habit, most people avoid change in any way. But the events of the last few years have meant that all of us have had to change many aspects of our day to day lives and while some have thrived during this time, others have found it difficult just to survive from one […]
Meditation – Your High-Performance Superpower
Meditation is often be misunderstood by many and seen as something that is better suited to a yoga studio rather than a performance training environment. However, I completely disagree with this assumption and see it as a practice that can be used as an incredibly powerful technique to focus the mind and to train attention […]