Life throws us a mix of opportunities and challenges; navigating it all can often feel overwhelming. As someone who’s spent years advising people on mental performance and personal development, I’ve learned that one of the most effective tools for managing both is deceptively simple: making personal rules. Personal rules aren’t [...]
When we examine the lives of the people we follow on social media and celebrities, we create a fantastical view based on glamour and prestige rather than their reality. This leads to feelings of not being enough and deeply affects your self-esteem. It’s only natural that you suffer by comparison. [...]
Most of this advice is centered on the data from your sleep patterns and the amount of stress you are perceived to be experiencing. The sleep data can be very useful, but the sleep scores that these devices give you have been proven to be oversimplified and not of great [...]
Procrastinating is so common in society that you have likely heard people joking about it. I often (jokingly) tell my clients who have a problem with procrastinating that they would benefit from attending a support group meeting for procrastinators, but the only ones I know about are always postponed to [...]
The two blogs I am bringing the spotlight back onto today are in honor of the great basketball player and wonderfully unique human being, Bill Walton, who passed last week. They are both from my series on how being called talented is actually demeaning. The first one – BEING REFERRED TO [...]
In my previous blog on this subject, I focused on how athletes benefit from automating their thinking to prevent their thinking/decision-making from inhibiting their performance. In this entry, I will focus on decisions made off of the court or field, etc. Much recent research suggests that decision-making taxes our brain, [...]
One often overlooked aspect of peak performance is how you make decisions. Whenever you consciously make a decision that takes longer than an instant, you are NOT performing at your peak. In short, if you are thinking you are guaranteed to be underperforming. This is why we practice. We know [...]
Sleep and mental health are two essential components of our overall well-being that are closely linked. The quality of our sleep can have a profound impact on our mental health and vice versa. In this blog, we will explore the relationship between sleep and mental health and discuss practical ways [...]
This year I am sharing the most simplified and effective way that I know, to achieve a goal or stick to a resolution. 1) Pick just ONE goal or resolution to achieve. 2) Make a step by step plan, so that you know what is necessary to achieve your goal. [...]
