Adversity isn't something to be conquered. It's something to be woven in.

Some environments aren't built for you to thrive. They're built for you to survive - for now.

Most HR leaders I work with are saying something like this without hearing themselves. The restructure nobody wants to call a restructure. The AI rollout. The new wellbeing policy. There is always something to land — and the unspoken job spec is that the person doing the landing has somehow already worked out their own feelings about it.

This week's short "Note to Self" to keep your thinking on track… Note to self: "I just need to get through this week" isn't a plan. It's a pattern. Most high performers I work with say some version of this sentence without noticing. One more push. One more deadline. One more quarter. The tunnel always has an end - it's just that a new tunnel tends to start the moment you step out of the last one. The sentence itself isn't the problem. The problem is when it becomes the operat

Avoidance feels safe, but what if it's quietly hindering your potential? Discover how our natural instinct to dodge anxiety can hold us back

This week’s short "Note to Self" to keep your thinking on track… Note to self: Some of your biggest performance blocks and limiting...

Plans are simply flexible guidelines, not rigid commandments, and accepting their inherent adaptability helps us make better decisions.

Emotion regulation encompasses the processes through which we influence what we feel, when we feel it, how we experience emotions...

Note to Self: Perfectionism is a tool, not a trait. Use it wisely. Perfectionism is often portrayed as a negative part of personality...

This week’s short "Note to Self" to keep your thinking on track… Almost everyone knows that to perform well through adversity and beyond,

This week’s short "Note to Self" to keep your thinking on track… Rules, goals, deadlines are not dire necessities. Even so, people have a...

This week’s short "Note to Self" to keep your thinking on track… When an important process, performance, or relationship goes wrong it's...

This week’s short "Note to Self" to keep your thinking on track… We rarely get stuck in the future. Yet it is better to get stuck in our...

Should we control the controllable? In sport and performance psychology we have a famous phrase... Control the controllable.

I think this sentence in the first few pages of Andre Agassi's Autobiography "Open" is striking.

This week’s short "Note to Self" to keep your thinking on track… "Why should I?" An often voiced protest I hear in the face of unfairness,

This week’s short "Note to Self" to keep your thinking on track… The ability to be able to perform under pressure is over-rated. It's...

It's hard, if not impossible to learn effectively when stressed. The networks of neurones in our brains have to choose. Do I learn or do...

In the world of business and entrepreneurship going global represents, for many, the ultimate success. Reaching people in the farther...

We spend so much time pushing uncomfortable emotions away that we often don't realise their potential to help us move forward. Today's...