Trial and error, we all hate making mistakes and not getting things right, though when one really begins looking at it, all sports coaching really is, is a process of trial and error. And this is why having an overall picture in one’s mind become essential, for the point the one is aiming for, over…
Pushing the envelop can be unsettling for some, though by pushing the envelop, one begins expanding their knowledge out. And when one stops and begins explaining things to others, one can surprise themselves by what they have actually learnt over time. So in the spirit of pushing one’s boundaries further, the following are some you…
Path – Follow the yellow brick road, or do you. There are many paths we take in life, and at times we do not know whether we are on the right path or not, that comes with experience and inner knowing. Though one common road we all take, or should take, is the path of…
Juggling is something we do in our lives naturally, for we all have many things on the go, and if we didn’t know how to organise ourselves, all the balls that we have in the air, would fall to the ground. And it’s always interesting watching people juggling different objects and the timing that they…
Polymath is an interesting concept, yet it something our educational system doesn’t cater for, yet some of the most creative people, like Leonardo Da Vinci, are and were a polymath. So what is a polymath? Quite simply put, it is someone who studies and researches over a wide range of interests and subjects, and by…
Stepping out into the sea of information can be scary for a lot of people, especially if they have been through the indoctrination program that we call education, and a lot of people are happy to stay within the perceived comfort of the system, though at what price? What’s Your Price? – Black Pilled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkEa4wOejNk Though more…
Why do people find curiosity so strange? Almost like an anomaly, whereas curiosity is the basis of being human, and to deny curiosity, is to deny one’s most important learning tool. You remove the curiosity, you remove the learning And if people are telling you to stop being so curious, they are effectively telling you…
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…
