Feelings Are Not Facts
A common misconception is that people who consistently win and are successful always feel confident. This couldn’t be further from the truth. High achievers have learned that: Feelings are not facts & Feelings are not final.
Mental performance pioneer, Dr. Ken Ravizza, used to say, “Are you so bad that you need your A-Game to win? If you only have 70%, give 100% of what you do have.”
How Thinking About a Traffic Light Can Help You Be Better Prepared for Performance
A quick effective and simple way to assess these aspects of ourselves is by thinking about a traffic light. Just as traffic lights guide drivers, this method can help us understand and manage our inner world. Think about a traffic light what does each color mean to us in our preparation for success?
Clarity: The Key to Purpose and Velocity
I wear contact lens. I had to get a prescription for them because I could not see the board at school. When I do not wear my contacts everything seems blurry and I can not make up the details of what’s around me.
Boosting Emotional Self-Awareness: A Monthly Self-Audit
In our busy lives, it’s easy to lose touch with our emotions. With one simple tool however, there is a way to have better self-awareness, emotional regulation and better relationships. What is that tool? A monthly self-audit.
Success Leaves Clues: Why You Should Be Looking Backward
A question once posed by our late co-founder Trevor Moawad that impacts the work we do every day: Why do we only conduct “after-action reviews”—or analyze our processes and their outcomes—when something goes wrong?
Adversity Tolerance: What It Is + How to Build It
what is adversity? The simple, Google-able definition is “one’s difficulties or misfortunes,” but it goes deeper than that. Adversity shows up at many different levels, in many different settings. There’s workplace adversity (think unstable markets, company reorganizations, turnover, etc). Physical adversity can include a career-ending injury or just the migraines you’ve dealt with since childhood. Relationship adversity, mental, social, spiritual—the list goes on and on.
Less Negative Beats More Positive
As it turns out, working to reduce negativity has a ripple effect that outweighs trying to add positivity into your life. In 2021, a team of researchers led by Michael F. Scheier conducted a meta-analysis of 61 studies. Findings across these studies demonstrated that less pessimism was a more powerful predictor of better physical health outcomes than MORE optimism.
The Power of Purpose
When it comes to the effect of purpose on performance, research by Gallup showed that improving an employees’ connection to the mission of their organization by just 10% can lead to an 8.1% decrease in turnover and a 4.4% increase in profitability.
One of the best ways to increase an employee’s connection to their work is to allow them to take ownership of it. However, an employee must be proud of what they’re doing to claim it as theirs.
Neutral Thinking is LIMITLESS
In coaching sessions, we often define neutral thinking as a truth- and behavior-based method of thinking that focuses on the objective facts, without judging or grading. Utilizing neutral thinking allows each moment to have a history of its own, emphasizing the process instead of the past (then) or future (when).
