A Porsche 944, the Mega Bus and Waking Up
Image by Getty Images via @daylife I was driving home from Glasgow last week on the A9. And my mind was asleep, day dreaming, I glanced out my side window to see myself being overtaken by a “Mega-Bus” with luggage trailer, and the driver looking at me with a glint in his eye. Then I remembered what was under the hood and that I was driving a Porsche , changed gear, put my foot down and accelerated away, much to the distain of... [Read More...]
What it takes to build your ‘Best’ Team
“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime” - Babe Ruth, baseball legend “May the best team win” is a commonly heard expression at the beginning of a competitive sports event but the ‘best’ team isn’t necessarily the team made up of the ‘best’ players, the best team is exactly that;... [Read More...]
The secret skills of Great Leaders –Visioning the Future
“A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more” - Rosabeth Moss Kanter, American business speaker Visualisation is a key mental skill in terms of achieving full potential in competitive sport. With visualisation, an athlete not only learns how to picture themselves in a winning performance, they learn to see beyond a picture of what could be by developing a clear vision... [Read More...]
“its not Unusual” or What I learnt from Tommy Woodward ?
Sitting in the living room on Sunday morning drinking coffee and listening to Tom Jones on Desert Island Discs . And he told the story of being a kid and how he would get his mother to introduce him in the kitchen. HIs real name was Tommy Woodward and he would get his mum to say “Ladies and Gentlemen Tommy Woodward and only then would appear from behind the kitchen curtain to start singing. Tom said when he heard his last name he know he would... [Read More...]
Get in the Zone, Stress Less, Succeed More.
“For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind” - Harry Vardon Top golfers know a thing or two about high pressure situations and as a Performance Coach I want to pass some of the secrets onto you. Imagine the eyes of thousands of spectators watching your every move on the golf course; close-up images of your every swing being displayed on huge TV screens for the benefit of those who don’t manage to bag a prime... [Read More...]
Golf Psychology and Skills for Life
“Baseball players quit and they take up golf. Basketball players quit, take up golf. What are we supposed to take up when we quit?” - George Archer, pro golfer It’s probably fair to say that golf is often thought of as an activity reserved for the retirement years in life. This is no doubt partly due to the relatively sedate nature of the sport compared to many other ‘hard and fast’ sports considered to be activities for the young. But,... [Read More...]
NLP and your well formed outcome
Being flexible to achieve your goals
We’re all familiar with the concept of being hard, being steadfast and pursuing things in a straight path to our goals. What about being flexible? What does this hold for us? “Just as a sapless tree will split and decay So an inflexible force will meet defeat” – Tao Te Ching Flexibility can have as much power or more as sheer force of will and determination. Think of the power of water. One of the greatest athletes of... [Read More...]
