Archive for April, 2008
Performance Psychology
Make sure you are grounded
I attended an NLP workshop this weekend. We learnt an exercise to make sure you are grounded, firm and solid before you handle difficult situations. Take a deep breath and imagine your centre of gravity is 3 inches below your navel, which is where it is: except we often, particularly when we are under pressure, [...]
Posted on April 20, 2008 • Read the rest of this entry »
Performance Psychology
extra $3000 fee
One of the delegates (Julie)that attended my workshop at the Australian Speakers Conference in Melbourne has just told me that she made an extra $3000 on one fee last week. Taking my advice she doubled her fee from $3000 to $6000 and prefixed it with the word “normal”. She said my normal fee is $6000. [...]
Posted on April 20, 2008 • Read the rest of this entry »
Performance Psychology
Waking up in the middle of night
Believe it or not this happens to most people. Often it is caused by our unconscious mind remembering something important that we haven’t done, an incompletion from yesterday or an issue we haven’t prepared for tomorrow. Another alternative is something that we should be taking action on in our lives, but have left it simmering. [...]
Posted on April 7, 2008 • Read the rest of this entry »
Performance Psychology
Handling Stress
Stress in moderation is good for us. We need to be stretched to perform at a high level, think of stress as like a rubber band. Some tension is needed to do the job properly. However too much stress is not good for us and we wouldn’t want the band to snap. Usually stress is [...]
Posted on April 7, 2008 • Read the rest of this entry »
Performance Psychology
Only 1 in 100 of Psychological studies are on Happiness
Up to 1990 there were no studies into happiness. All research was to help people who had serious psychological issues. The Californian psychologist Martin Seligman then decided to research what made people happy. His research clearly shows that people who have future goals, targets and help people are much more happier than people who don’t.
Posted on April 5, 2008 • Read the rest of this entry »