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 – ChallengeWe 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.”Which 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?I did a post on resilience and why it’s important a while back and it is something that I’ve been thinking a lot about over the weekend and wanted to share some thoughts. Shit happens – to all of us. It’s a fact of life that there will be periods of your life where you’ll […]
Read More Life is how you react, not what happens to you!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 cyclingHave you ever felt sad, unhappy or down and not understand why you’re feeling these things? Sometimes this happens to me, and I know to everyone but I’m learning through awareness of what I’m thinking what’s caused it – and normally it’s just a thought! Below are some of the things I’ve found help […]
Read More 5 things to change your mindset today!I always get a hard time in work and in my social circles because of using words like “Awesome”. Being from Ireland, it’s a completely American word and one that has passed over here along with all the TV series and Starbucks coffee shops to Americanize our culture here. Words are powerful though. Words […]
Read More Parts of me are pretty AWESOME!