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 [...]
For over a decade, I have ended the year writing a blog about the pitfalls of New Year’s resolutions. I have offered suggestions for ways to improve your chances of having success if you make them, and talked about the mechanics of why I prefer goals to resolutions. This year, I decided to attack them from another angle, turning your desires or resolutions into “Stress Goals.” [...]
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. [...]
How do you feel when someone writes you a check that bounces? Does it make you trust the person who wrote the check more or less? If you are like most people, when this happens to you, it forces you to look more closely at the person who wrote the [...]
If you read my previous blog, ‘One of the Most Prevalent Misconceptions Among Athletes,’ you likely now realize that the belief that anger fuels improved performance is a misperception in your brain. The improved performance comes from the increased focus the anger creates in you, but the anger actually drains [...]
Most people experience an uptick in their performance when they become angry. I’d be rich if I had a dollar for every athlete who has not just told me but exclaimed that they play better when angry. I will be the first to admit there is some truth to this… [...]
It’s because they gravitate towards comfort! Most people will avoid discomfort with a passion reserved for very few other things in life. This is why you see people in your life put off changes they know they need to make for years or even decades. I bet you know plenty [...]
The first one originally appeared here in March of 2018. This blog was inspired by a question I get all of the time: WHY DO PEOPLE INVEST IN PEAK PERFORMANCE COACHES? The short answer that I give is, to get better quicker! If you are interested in a longer explanation [...]
Some of the topics covered in my previous articles on parenting include the importance of modeling & teaching children self-control, the necessity for parents to challenge their children and allow them to fail, the importance of interacting with your children in ways that will benefit them intellectually, and well-intentioned mistakes [...]
Contrary to popular belief, the awarding of performance bonuses does not generally improve team or business performance. Many will argue that before they had a bonus structure in place, their sales numbers or statistics were not as good as they are since they have been using bonuses. This is [...]
