The Request I’d love your help. Can I please get your honest and skilful thoughts? I recently wrote a message to the mother (and sponsor) of one of my clients. Before and after sending it, I re-read it couple of times. It was a situation where I expressed my professional opinion-personal values in a way […]
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Junior Footy Like me, my 5 years younger brother Mitch, has been coaching all his career. He gives a lot to his community and with two tween-age boys, he’s also co-coaching one of their football teams with another Dad. Didn’t set out to be the one of the coaches, but in the end they had
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Lance Believe it or not, after all the water under the bridge, I still listen to what Lance Armstrong has to say in and around professional cycling. Stay with me 🙂 He has some great insights, which demonstrate other factors he leveraged to win the biggest bike races. I’m not condoning what he did and I
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*This is the 1st of a series of 3 pieces. They’re chronologically linked, but can be read as standalone articles if chosen. Here’s Part 2 and Part 3 The internal self-talk was pretty bad. “This is so shit.” “It doesn’t make sense. I prepared so well.” “I know it’s normal to be challenged, but this fucked”.
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If I said to you it’s possible to combine fun, laughter, competitiveness, skill, courage, deep learning, improvement, creativity in a very natural and efficient way, AND get hard-edged, measurable change in capacity and resultant beliefs, would you be curious? Bloody oath you would! This could be a game changer. One the most influential factors in
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I’ve been watching a RedbullTv doco show on the Mountain Bike Enduro World Series. It’s a pretty good insight into the racing, competitors and challenges. Anyway the series narrator dramatically comes out with this one: “Expectation, the internal belief that you’ll achieve something…..But despite our planning and preparation, things don’t always go our way, do
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“TTs are about power to pedal, but mental strength is what can affect and impact on power application, in particular the ability to push into the red and hold it there. Gaining a mental ‘edge’ is a skill to learn and takes practise, practise and more practise.” – Felicity Wardlaw. CONTEXT From any viewpoint, the
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I love it And I always want to enjoy it I want to enjoy it, especially in relation to the climbing that has usually preceded it My intention is safety as a foundational given, and performance as the goal – I practice viewing and achieving these priorities, as one Performance for me is indicated
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Chipper Jones is a long time, one team Major League Baseballer for the Atlanta Braves. After 20 years in ‘the show’ he’s retiring – but he’s actually still producing good numbers! This is a quote taken from a recent article reflecting on his achievements, his character and his plans as a more available Dad:
