Many elite athletes regularly use visualization techniques as a crucial part of their training and competition routines. Stories abound of athletes harnessing these techniques to gain a competitive edge. Although often thought of as purely a mental exercise, effective visualization engages multiple senses and goes beyond just seeing oneself succeed. One famous study on the power of visualization was conducted.. Read more
If you haven’t been watching the Paris Olympics over the last three weeks, where the hell have you been. I’ve been riveted. So many great moments. The GB women’s quad skulls winning on the last stroke, the Turkish ‘hit-man’ nonchalently winning silver in the pistol shooting with his hand in his pocket; the emotion of the three women cyclists after winning gold.. Read more
Out of 250, you only need to win one! In olympic 2000m rowing over the course of the race a boat crew will make between 240 and 250 strokes, upping and dropping their stroke rate as the tactics of the race plays out. But the only stroke that ultimately counts is the one that takes you over the line. Yesterday,.. Read more
“Sh*t happens so the shift happens.” Jen Gottlieb And this quote from Jen Gottlieb, sums it up. Jen is an entrepreneur from New York and the founder of branding company Super Connector Media. I heard her speak at a conference in Gateshead earlier this year and like most successful entrepreneurs, her journey to running a successful agency was not an.. Read more
The opposite of capitalism is not socialism or communism it’s community and relationship. Capitalism = transactional. If I have enough money I can get what I want, even if I’m an ar$ehole. It doesn’t matter how unpleasant I am as a human, if I have the bank balance, I get what I want. That’s how capitalism works because it is purely transactional. We.. Read more
We appear to be in an era where it’s tough to dig through the nonsense and find the truth. Part of the reason for this is that the conversation is not balanced. It’s not balanced to have a reputable educated peer-reviewed professor on one side of the debate and a high school educated conspiracy theorist on the other just because.. Read more