If anyone wants to read an excellent book, one can do no better than reading Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson. In it he explores the conditions that are associated with creating more ideas and good ideas and the common link between it all connection. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3Ce3Vs0Ec0 And it’s through the collision of connection…
You’ve started to look into nutrition, you’ve started to change what you eat and the natural supplements you take to compliment what you eat, so how do you go about improving your health further? There are 4 further things that can improve your health further, each on their own are good, though when you combine…
People are always number crunching and going through the data to see why things work the way that they do or trying to fathom out how people achieve what they achieve. It’s the same with sport, someone is always going through the data to see what gives the winners the edge, whether that be in…
There are some very simple concepts I’m working to and they’re concepts that most can follow and understand very easily and they concern sport, health and growing things. The concepts are simply these: Sport If you learn about the key aspects of your sport and practice the key skills, techniques and tactics, you will become…
When you retune a radio, you change its station to a different frequency and you can go up or down the scale. It’s the same with us humans, for we are beings of frequencies and depending what you are tuned into will depend on the reality that you perceive. And everything that we see and…
In everything that we do, we need a set of principles to work by for they provide consistency and solidity to whatever is done and principles provide a guiding post in this ever changing world and this is where the hermetic principles come in. The hermetic principles are a set of principles that date back…
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 it comes to understanding consciousness, it would be fair to say that we don’t know too much about. And in a way that’s a bit like our understanding of electricity, for: We don’t really know what electricity is We don’t really know how electricity works We do know how to interact with electricity And…
The biggest issue that people will face in understanding the workings of the playing zone is in coming to understand the concept of consciousness. For consciousness has been made into a taboo subject and therefore is an area that most don’t won’t to venture in to, and yet the irony is, without consciousness, people would…
When looking at DMT and the effect that it has on the human mind is a subject which one could spend a long time exploring. It’s such a fascinating area to explore. But to cut a long story short, the following seems to be some of the gist of what DMT does. DMT seems to…
I have put together another poster for download, this time on the nature of reality. The poster can be downloaded by clicking onto the following link: http://beawinningcoach.com/documents/The%20Nature%20of%20Reality.pdf And when combined with another poster on how the aspects of nutrition interacts with each other in the body: http://beawinningcoach.com/documents/Nutritional%20Workings.pdf a bigger picture begins to emerge without making…
When we talk about skills in sport we talk about upskilling, and upskilling is a term which implies one isn’t really good enough. In reality upskilling is not really a term which one can get their head around and build a picture upon Because in reality, a skill is a tool, therefore the more tools…
Like Colonel Saunders and his chicken, there are some secret ingredients that when added to your sports team, lifts them in what they do. Though unlike Colonel Saunders I’m going to let you in on the secret ingredients The 4 herbs and spices for sport are: Discipline Mental Strength Simplicity Respect If these ingredients are…
Wanting to improve or do well? Because the thing that maybe blocking and holding one back is the mind. For if one is operating from the aspects of a Failing Mind they are the very things which are causing the blocks and holds. So if following aspects are being worked from: Fixed Mindset Passive Learner…
The following is the flip side of the hand out for the Succeeding Mind so people can see where they are going off track and away from the aspects Succeeding Mind. Failing Mind Fixed Mindset Believe that your talent is a fixed thing and doesn’t take on challenges for fear of being shown up or…
The following is based on a small 7cm by 14cm hand out I give to people that covers the basics of a Succeeding Mind. Succeeding Mind Growth Mindset Recognise that your talent is a starting point and the brain is like a muscle and with work it becomes stronger Proactive Learner Ask questions to develop…
After reading Bob Sullo’s book, The Motivated Student, I have added another aspect when it comes to dealing with players, namely how they view themselves. There are two aspects to it, one is how you currently see yourself and the other is how you see yourself in the future for how one sees themself in…
As I’m developing a better understanding of reading people, the following is a great little tool to see what people are about, for it brings a clarity to viewing. All you have to do is to put a tick beside the aspects that people are and you will develop a very good picture of the…
When you play sport, at some stage you’re going to have to perform under pressure and to be able to handle pressure successfully, it helps to know about the prefrontal cortex in the brain. The prefrontal cortex has lots of functions and under normal conditions it works effectively, but when the pressure gets ramped up,…
I’ve just done a small experiment with someone (age 10) I haven’t coached for a couple of months who’s been coached using visual images. He had his hockey stick with him so I said show me your spider man wrists, sumo body position and the other 3 images associated with creating a strong body position….
