I used to base my coaching from the unconscious belief that everyone wanted to learn and improve, but not anymore, as I gave away that fallacy many years ago and shifted to a new fundamental starting point for coaching which is that no one wants to learn and improve and I have to create the…
Whenever one tries something, or begins to learn something new, it is always through the process of taking small steps and this same principle of taking small steps applies to the process of waking up to the reality that surrounds us. For there are 2 types of waking up that one goes through, the first…
If anyone plays any form of sport at any level, apart from striving to get better, and trying to win, one of the underlying factors of what sport is really about, it is a journey of self-discovery, in other words, one begins to find out what you are really made of and who you really…
If one ever starts anything, one thing is guaranteed, somewhere along the line you’re going to have failures and fail at things, it’s just the way it is, no one has ever come up with the perfect plan from the get go. Success comes from the accumulation of failures and learning from them and trying…
In the world of self-directed learning, people maybe a bit concerned that they won’t find any teachers on their path and in the progress of their development. Ultimately that is an irrelevance because with an open mind and when one begins to look, teachers are everywhere. Your teachers could be people around you or people…
When putting together sports team, ultimately what one is aiming at doing is creating quality teams, quality players and to play quality sport. And as much as people say that it’s all about the participation, secretly, deep down, they want to win and the way to increase the chances of winning is in creating quality…
If anyone wants an interesting read, try the book, And On That Bombshell by Richard Porter, the script editor of the hugely popular Top Gear program. Richard Porter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LStyF2u_e2s And On That Bombshell https://www.bookdepository.com/And-on-That-Bombshell-Richard-Porter/9781409165071?ref=grid-view&qid=1499147083742&sr=1-1 The book goes in behind the scenes from the very early days of top gear, right through its finish on the…
There are 3 elements to understanding the human brain and how it works and when you come to grips with them, the learning and coaching process accelerates. The things is, the human brain isn’t that mysterious and complicated to understand when you look it at from the big picture, it’s just that the left brain…
There is a simple way to begin to accelerate your rate of learning and that is simply by starting. I keep hearing people saying, I haven’t got time for learning, and I go, do you watch TV? If so, you’ve got time for learning. As an experiment, give up an hour of watching TV and…
In coming to understand the human psyche and how we behave you have to go back to basics and like any concept, it’s not that difficult to understand once you tune into the keys. Essential you need to know about: Learners & Improvers Needy People Psychopathic Mind And understand the aspects of: The Succeeding Mind…
Yesterday I wrote that a team was a group of people who come together, but that doesn’t quite define what a team is, that is more of a gathering of people, so let’s explore it further for we just have to add a wee bit extra to it. So a definition of a team is…
The whole thing about everything we do revolves around expanding knowledge for we live in an infinite information field and it is only by asking questions that we can expand our acquisition and understanding of that information which goes on to form our knowledge, for knowledge is nothing more than a collection of information. And…
We keep hearing about listening to our intuition, but the real question is, why is this. What I can see is that the intuition fulfils two roles, it is an inner guide and also a teacher And it’s only by breaking down a words that you truly get to and understand its meaning so let’s…
When we start looking at the word education and looking at its root meaning, it takes on a very different connotation to what we perceive it to be. Because: The word education derives from the word educate and the word educate is Latin meaning to draw out. What most modern education methods are is to belt…
In whatever endeavour one undertakes, one must learn to search for oneself. In by that, one must learn to start exploring information from multiple sources, rather than just be fed from only one or two, for the one or two may have a built in bias. If one does enough research, one begins to find…
The best thing to do is to keep asking questions. If things don’t seem right and you’re discouraged from asking question, that’s the motivation to keep asking Sometimes it can lead you down a rabbit hole, but most times to a wide open plain. Asking questions is at the heart of true learning
In writing this blog, the underlying theme is excellence. And developing excellence on the field is one of the hardest things initially to achieve but as one develops, excellence becomes easier and easier. And the place that excellence starts is in the mind and this is where the aspects of the succeeding mind comes in….
When looking for sporting talent, everyone gets blinded by the flashy skills, and the reason being is because they are easy to measure. And yet it’s ultimately not the physical skills that gets one to the top, it’s the driver in the head that completes the task. http://thetalentcode.com/2014/04/23/talent-id-2-0-stop-measuring-performance-and-start-testing-temperament/ Imagine having a flashy Ferrari that you…
The interesting thing about the Succeeding Mind is how each aspect interacts and works with each other. For example, Internal Motivation requires people to have a growth mindset and be a proactive learner, and once these are attained or planted in peoples mind, developing internal motivation in them becomes much easier. In other words, the…
I recently read Brendan O’Carroll’s autobiography, the creator of Mrs Browns Boys. http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/Real-Mrs-Brown-Brian-Beacom/9781444754537 As well as being a rollicking good read through all the hard times he went through, via his words, Brendan’s Succeeding Mind comes through loud and clear. “They could be anything they want. Just as long as they learned” “What she taught…
