October 20, 2015 9:00 am
You can’t achieve a goal you haven’t set, so the first thing to do, is to decide what you want from life and set some goals around it. Once you’ve done that, it’s time for the Reticular Activation System (RAS) in your brain to get to work, filtering out irrelevant information and presenting you with what you need to achieve your goal. But how do you know you’re giving it everything it needs? Would you be interested to learn that there are ways of supercharging...
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September 10, 2015 9:00 am
When you decide that you’re going to go away on holiday, what do you do? Do you make the decision and then forget about it, making the assumption that it’ll just happen? Of course not! You’re not just going to pack your bag on the day you’ve decided to go, and then wait aimlessly at the front door. You plan where you’re going to go, how you’re going to get there, what to do with any pets while you’re away, where you’ll stay and what...
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September 1, 2015 9:20 am
As you pursue your goals, the journey will not be smooth one. Things will go wrong, you will have bad days, and you will have setbacks. Can you stop these setbacks coming? No. Not always that’s for sure. What you can control though, is your reaction. I’ve observed 3 distinct types of reaction to setbacks, and the good news is that we get to choose which reaction to have. Basketball is a good sport to use to illustrate this. It’s particularly evident when coaching kids, they...
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May 20, 2015 9:00 am
A professor stands in front of his class with a big sweet jar. He fills the jar with rocks and asks his students, ’Is the jar full?’ ‘Yes’, they reply, confidently, wondering what this is all about. He proceeds to pick up some pebbles and drop them into the jar, and to the surprise of the students, they tumble into the spaces between the rocks. ‘Is the jar full now?’ he asks. ‘Yes’, they reply, a little more hesitantly. He...
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