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Note To Self Blog
Short Notes on Psychology To Keep Your Thinking On Track


The Story You Tell Yourself: A Powerful Tool for Performance and Wellbeing
Avoidance feels safe, but what if it's quietly hindering your potential? Discover how our natural instinct to dodge anxiety can hold us back
Dr Jenni McArthur
Aug 152 min read


Trauma and Performance: Breaking Through Hidden Blocks
This week’s short "Note to Self" to keep your thinking on track… Note to self: Some of your biggest performance blocks and limiting...
Dr Jenni McArthur
May 83 min read


When Plans Meet Reality
Plans are simply flexible guidelines, not rigid commandments, and accepting their inherent adaptability helps us make better decisions.
Dr Jenni McArthur
Apr 82 min read


Avoidance, Anxiety and Achievement
Avoidance feels safe, but what if it's quietly hindering your potential? Discover how our natural instinct to dodge anxiety can hold us back
Dr Jenni McArthur
Mar 252 min read


The Many Roads to Emotion Control
Emotion regulation encompasses the processes through which we influence what we feel, when we feel it, how we experience emotions...
Dr Jenni McArthur
Feb 222 min read


Not More Than Important.
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...
Dr Jenni McArthur
Jul 11, 20241 min read


Stuck in the Future
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...
Dr Jenni McArthur
Jun 14, 20241 min read


Should We Control The Controllable?
Should we control the controllable?
In sport and performance psychology we have a famous phrase...
Control the controllable.
Dr Jenni McArthur
May 24, 20241 min read


Stuck In Stress Or Advancing In Adversity?
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...
Dr Jenni McArthur
Jul 20, 20235 min read


The Up Side of Negative Emotions
We spend so much time pushing uncomfortable emotions away that we often don't realise their potential to help us move forward. Today's...
Dr Jenni McArthur
Jun 2, 20233 min read
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