Success loves speed, delay kills dreams
One 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 DayAs 2018 closes it’s always an interesting exercise to stop and reflect on the previous year. You can also use the lessons learned to gear up for the year ahead with renewed and potentially redirected focus. At the start of a new year, we create great plans of what we’ll do differently and the “new […]
Read More 2018->2019 – reflect, build and compound. Suggestions to add to your achievement system1 minute summary – longer 6 minute read underneath. 1 minute summary. Break down goals into the smallest pieces. Do these actions daily to build towards habitual actions that take you closer to your goals. It’s easy to set too big or too small goals, and do nothing. Instead start small, do daily and achieve […]
Read More Goals versus Habits & some thoughts about how to think differently about both.Reading about pessimism and optimism and the differences between the two. One statement I really liked was how pessimists make everything a general statement whereas optimists make specific statements. For example: “I can’t believe I messed up that job interview, I’m terrible at interviews” – takes away your power to do anything about the situation. […]
Read More Pessimists versus optimistsI was always told by people who knew me that I was lucky. People would see the opportunities that I was lucky to have and say it’s luck, “Philip – he’s so lucky.” I got to perform in concert halls, I’ve sung and won £1000 a couple of times for performing. I’m currently coaching senior […]
Read More But you’re lucky! Luck = opportunity + preparation. 3 things you can do to increase your luck!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 […]
Read More When things go wrong as they sometimes will – Resilience and why you should care!Too often we wait… We wait until all answers to every question we create in our heads is answered. We wait until it feels like the right time. We wait because we think what if they reject me? We wait because they might say no. We wait because they might not like the new product I’m trying […]
Read More What are you waiting for?!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 […]
Read More 3 things I’ve learned about life from cyclingSomeone said this statement to me earlier on this week and I thought it was interesting. Just because I’m a coach doesn’t mean I don’t have days where I’m negative, and feel sorry for myself. I think it’s unrealistic to think you can be happy and positive all the time. Bad things happen to people. […]
Read More You must be always positive if you’re a coach