"Perfectionism" is a problem, if and when implemented in one or a combination of two ways.

As the 2020/2021 Olympics kicks off in earnest, I love to take the opportunity to grab a little extra inspiration, motivation and peak-performance-learning from watching the best in the world excel at their sport.

This sounds like we have it backwards. Surely we judge on what we actually do, not just what we think and say we will?

You might have seen my previous post, just yesterday: "What Future Self Are You Consigning Yourself To?" An interesting thought to consider, noticing how the way we operate throughout the day SIGNALS to ourselves who we are and are becoming.

It's a useful thought to consider the Future Self you'd love to live into. But that desired future self is not who we’ll become, unless we get conscious and intentional about it - something we rarely do.

I remember giving a talk a whole back on productivity and focus. And one of the corporate team asked that, given the amount of structure and discipline I was espousing, what did I do to keep INSPIRATION alive? Because surely inspiration would be stifled by so much structure?!)

When we're IN a problem, we can never solve it as creatively, elegantly or efficiently as when we're not. We're just too heavily associated with the problem … and the thinking that created it.

Resistance is, to me, one of the most interesting and useful topics to work with and tune into. It tells us so much about what's really going on for us (and others) - and where the solution lies.

"I tend to …" is a non-specific observation about the past that need not dictate my choices and behaviours in this moment.

The brain has strong narrative circuitry. We get "lost in thought". Our whole conscious thinking process is little more than a Q&A session with ourselves!