Month: February 2021

What has become clearer to you now that it’s gone?

“The beauty of connection has only been driven home by the absence of it.” Gabor Maté I heard this today on an interview with Gabor and loved it. We forget how inhuman isolation is. How losing the human connection has such an effect on us. In the absence of these things, it’s clearer how valuable […]

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The monster under the bed is all in our head

The monster under our bed is all in our head! Whenever we have something uncomfortable we have to do, we move further away from it & the scarier & more uncomfortable it feels. I’ve to present to senior audiences quite often & each time I feel nervous. There are times I’ve had to present & […]

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Have theory, find evidence and the difference between listening FOR and TO

Have a theory, find evidence for it and the difference between listening for and to. One thing I’m definitely guilty of is confirmation bias – where I look for evidence to back up what I believe so I feel reassured. Feeling right about my opinion is great. I love feeling right. When I can rhyme […]

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Focus on your systems, not goals

Focus on your systems not goals. The British cycling team have the same goal as any other cycling team: to win in the Olympics. They started to achieve much more success when they focused on tiny marginal gains throughout their system surrounding their cyclists. A surgeon was hired to teach them how to was their […]

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There is no such thing as failure, only feedback

“There’s no such thing as failure only feedback” This is a presupposition from NLP, Neuro Linguistic Programming, and I remember not understanding it the first time. I had failed at many things. Failing felt awful. Failing felt like I had let myself and others down by not being good enough. I didn’t realise until sometime […]

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Fish discover water last

Fish discover water last. George Kelling a criminologist came up with the broken window theory: “A broken window that isn’t fixed, suggests that no one is in charge and no one cares” This sends an unspoken but powerful message that encourages antisocial behaviour. We are shaped by subtle cues from an environment that drive both […]

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Slow is smooth and smooth is fast

“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast” Phil Dunphy Phil Dunphy is from the show Modern Family and has some hilarious and interesting phrases and sayings. This one, while working out on Sunday, was used by one of the instructors on the course and it’s so true. If we can’t do something well, with quality, […]

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Move more, it starts with wiggling your toes

We did a full day of movement assessment training yesterday as part of the fitness instructing course I’m doing at the moment. My result – I need to move a lot more 😂 I normally exercise a lot to undo the sitting and inactivity during the day. I never realised the impact of doing thousands […]

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