Success loves speed, delay kills dreams
This see-saw from Emotional Agility by Susan David is interesting. If you get these two in balance, competence and challenge, you will feel energised. If the challenge outweighs your competence, you will feel stressed, anxious and potentially overwhelmed. If the challenge is less than the level of your competence it will be boring for you. […]
Read More Competence – ChallengeOne of the key areas that has a massive impact on the quality of our lives and how we feel our life is going, is the daily routines that we fall into. Routines can be useful when they are intentionally created – morning routines where you work on your key goals and projects for example […]
Read More Groundhog DayWe have so much in common with a chameleon. Just kidding not much but one of the things we do have in common is how we unconsciously change who we are because of the people we associate with. This can be changing our attitudes, behaviours and opinions. How we show up to others and who […]
Read More Don’t be a chameleon!How we respond to setbacks is an important skill to develop individually & collectively. We set out plans, goals and projects to strive towards. We create signposts to aim for between the end goal and where we are now. We’re in a world where the number of variables that can influence our journey is so […]
Read More If not this then something betterThis is the Kanizsa triangle. No doubt you can see a white triangle and three black dots in the image. Our minds fill in the blanks to create these. Yet the truth is, there is no complete shapes in this image. Our mind’s imagination provides what we want to see by filling in the lines. […]
Read More Don’t be stuck in the past“There is no change without resistance.” Any changes we make or want to make – physical or mental – create an element of resistance from our bodies and minds. It could be a change to our level of fitness that we’ve set out to achieve. Once you set this as a goal, your homeostasis (keep […]
Read More “There is no change without resistance.”The current situation has, I think, made things feel more local. We speak to our neighbours more, we shop more locally and when restricted to certain areas, we have to walk, cycle or run more locally too. I was thinking of this and the link to life purpose, and drew two options A and B […]
Read More Start local when thinking of purposeWhich is more efficient, moving to the first option by adding sales on the right or the second by removing anchors? I was thinking yesterday evening about how I’m so guilty of wanting new shiny things and convincing myself that I need them. I drew this picture to try and make sense of this for […]
Read More Do we add sails or remove anchors?Goals, whether individual goals or team goals, should challenge you not so you do more things but that you become a better person in the process. Goals also need to be clear rather than generic and you should be able to articulate the meaning behind the goal. Why do you want to achieve it? How […]
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