Attitude

It's all very well understanding and believing that our attitude is more important than our aptitude, but exactly what can we do about it? What makes the difference that you can develop? There appears to be three major differences between those that achieve…

Being prepared to learn and change and put in the required effort is a critical step in constantly improving. But this carries the suggestion that we should focus on what is wrong, or what needs improving - causing us to go into 'push' mode rather than the…

Here are five attitudes that will change your life: 1. People can change anything 2. There is no failure, only feedback 3. People are NOT their behaviours 4. Respect the other person’s model of the world 5. The meaning of communication is the response you…

It’s obvious that some states are good for you, and some are not so good right? Anyone like to feel angry - I mean actually enjoy it? I don’t think so… if you believe that you enjoy feeling angry, I’d suggest that you have a more powerful result from…

If you genuinely believe that you are focusing on your target and you align yourself correctly, and yet you push the ball, or pull the ball away from the line of target. What do you do? Berate yourself for slicing or hooking? Bad move! Welcome the opportunity…

There are some fundamental needs that drive our attitudinal behaviours - more about the why’s and wherefore in the chapter on Motivation. Here I’d like to pick up on one aspect of motivation that can radically change behaviour. There are some real big…

Lets move this away from you for a moment as I know this is difficult for the virgin. Let’s say for the moment that your close friend has a ‘wayward’ son. A teenager dressed in grubby jeans, a haircut that suggests an alien stylist, colours that jar…

You know those times, when you tell someone something and they don’t get it? So you tell them again. and sometime again. And they still don’t get it. Who has the problem? You or them? I hope by now that you’re realising that it’s you. They don’t…

These five attitudes form the basis of an effective and prosperous life. You do not have to believe them to be true - you just have to ACT as if they are true. You will gain enormous and wonderful new perspective on your golf game, your leadership at work,…

This is a story of two leaders. We worked with the organisation on team leadership because one of their sales teams was "highly successful" and another was "doing poorly, with a very low morale". The organisation wanted us to "find out what's working in [the…