10,000 hours of practice is the magic number that’s been kicked around in the popular media as the requirement for achieving the highest level of performance in one’s given specialty, sport or otherwise. Books like Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell and Bounce by Matthew Syed have really pushed the notion that top performance is achieved simply […]…
You’re up. You’ve performed well throughout your competition and you can practically taste the championship. All you need to do now is lay down a solid performance and you win. Pressure’s on. Do you choke or do you knock it out of the park? Take a moment and close your eyes and visualize the situation. […]…
It’s been a little while since I’ve posted so I thought I touch on something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. And coincidentally it follows up nicely from my last post. Just to recap – on the last post I discussed that the content of our self-talk plays as important a role in shaping […]…
Wow! Awe-inspiring to say the least. The ability of the human spirit to overcome obstacles knows no bounds. It’s not how many times you get knocked down that counts, but how many times you get up.…
As much as we’d all like to pretend we don’t hear voices inside our head, we all do. The good news is that it’s you talking to yourself (So chances are you’re not crazy). The bad news is that you probably only know a small bit of what you’re saying. This internal monologue or self-talk […]…