How to focus on your goals like crazy So, it’s a New Year, a fresh start, new beginnings, perhaps? Perhaps you have started, or are about to start, and you are feeling excited? This often happens when you embark on something new. While it’s critical to be crystal clear with knowing what you want and…
How to Step into Your New Year with Ease There will be some of you who have set your goals for 2019. There will be others who will be madly creating lofty New Year’s Resolutions in the next few days or even weeks! However, if you want to ensure you achieve your goals this year,…
The smarter way to succeed at New Year’s Resolutions and tackle your goals is to shift how you approach them. If you are like many people you will have set lofty New Year’s Resolutions in the past that you didn’t achieve. There are sound reasons for this. There is a vast chasm that needs to be…
The high cost of success. Most people have a desire to improve and grow. To be good at one thing, many things, or the best in the world. We often read about incredible human performances on the sporting field and sometimes the business world. However, it seems many of us are missing out on the…
What are the keys to happiness? People have discussed, debated and agonised over the topic of happiness for centuries. Questions such as ‘What is happiness?’ ‘How can we achieve happiness?’ and ‘What does a happy life look like?’ have been hot topics. Countries have attempted to measure and define happiness. Bhutan has a gross national…
Mental Rehearsal can help you gain your winning edge Dozens of world-class athletes cite visualisation or mental rehearsal as an essential practice in their mental preparation, where the difference between winning a medal and missing out can come down to a mere thousandth of a second. Many experiments have illustrated the success of visualisation. One…
The Solution To How Your Brain Tricks You Into Wasting Time Do you unintentionally (or even intentionally) get sidetracked in interesting but unimportant tasks, wasting time? Perhaps you had a critical project to focus on, but a seemingly urgent email or task pulled you away? Suddenly, your deadline is just a few days away, and…
Is your lack of sleep costing you more than irritability? How many hours sleep do you get on average each night? Is it seven or eight? More? Way less? If you are like many Australians, it is probably on the way less side. Sleep is a vital time for the body to repair and restore…
How to get into action? Definition of action – The fact or process of doing something, typically to achieve an aim. We all have dreams and goals, yet it seems few people ever transform their desires into reality. While I have written about this topic frequently, the question still remains, why is this? Have you, like…
How to Keep Focused and Productive Definition of FOCUS – the centre of interest or activity (noun) Focus is the most critical ingredient for achieving our goals, especially today when we find ourselves being swallowed up by a myriad of distractions. The energy of the mind is attention, so where we place our focus…