Tag: belief

When things go wrong as they sometimes will – Resilience and why you should care!

Everyone in life goes through times when things seem to just keep going wrong: You’ve stubbed your toe getting out of bed. You’ve spilled your coffee all over your newly dry cleaned trousers. You missed your sales target. You flopped in the interview. Your presentation went terrible. These things at the time seem like not […]

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3 things I’ve learned about life from cycling

Anyone who knows me, knows I cycle a lot. I did a charity cycle 2 years ago from Dublin to Rome to raise money for the Irish Cancer Society and took up cycling at that time. I bought the bike in January and left for Rome in June! So there wasn’t that many months to […]

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Don’t stay still – keep moving or you’ll be left behind!

Today I was speaking to a person I coach on an ongoing basis and we were talking about action and staying within your comfort zone. It’s an area that fascinates me, because I recognise it in myself when I’m comfortable before taking action out of my comfort zone. Also because I recognise it in other […]

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Keep your eye on the goal!

You might lose sight of how you will achieve your goal. You might get people who will knock you back, hold you down. You can overcome anything! You are more powerful than you can imagine! Your mind can go much further than your body thinks it can! Keep believing its possible, keep going, KEEP GOING!! […]

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Be that somebody – continued!!

  I love this quote. People will always knock you back, tell you you can’t do something, that’s impossible…. the list goes on…  Enough of that negative stuff! You can overcome all of these. Believe it’s possible and work every day towards achieving your goals…. It takes hours and hours of beating out your craft, […]

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Rubber band experiment!

Today I’m starting an experiment into conditioning myself for success! I read recently in a book on NLP that a simple technique to cut out negative behaviour and thoughts is to put a rubber band around your wrist and whenever you perform the negative behaviour or have any negative or self doubting thoughts that you […]

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Invictus (Invincible in Latin) by William Ernest Henley

During Mandela’s 27 years of political imprisonment (9000 days) his daily source of inspiration was a poem called “Invictus.” William Henley, the English poet wrote Invictus in 1875 from his hospital bed after his leg was amputated in his lifelong battle against tuberculosis of the bone. Invictus means “Invincible” in Latin: Out of the night […]

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