It was interesting watching a clip of Cathy Freeman yesterday reflecting on her gold medal success at the Sydney Olympics, in front of 112,000 people, carrying the hopes of a nation and performing under a huge weight of expectation.In the midst of all of that hype, excitement, pressure, hope and expectation, as she warmed up, [...]
A busy week for us at K2, hence the lack of missives. Back to it though.We were thinking about the fundamental things that underpin performance this week and as any good student will tell you (!), the first thing to do when thinking about something is to look it up in the dictionary and provide [...]
Two words I thought I’d never write next to each other… an oxymoron if ever there was one!
However, take a look at this from Robbie Keane, the Liverpool benchwarmer.
“I’m not being big-headed but I’ve scored a lot of goals in the last 10 years and it’s not just going to go away like that,” he [...]
A quick thought for you… Step 1. Look back over your career and identify your top 10 career highlights (or 5 if you’re pushed for time!)Step 2. You’re a common denominator in all of those highlight performances. Which of your personal qualities shine through as instrumental to success in each of those occasions? Are there [...]
Someone mentioned today that there is opportunity in chaos…Seems like a sensible assertion. And there is opportunity for sure, providing your know what abilities you have to exploit that opportunity. It’s been said that “chance favours the prepared mind” and these two ideas sit nicely together. Opportunity and the prepared mind.How prepared is your individual, [...]
When we’re in circumstances that look and feel totally foreign, we can often conclude that we don’t have appropriate skills to deal with what we’re facing. That conclusion comes from focusing on the situation as unique, unexpected, threatening and basically unwanted!However, if you’re aware of all of your talents that have led you to be [...]
Do you know that people perform better when they are clearly focused on playing to their strengths, rather than focusing on how not to have their weaknesses exposed? Pretty obvious really, but there’s a big assumption that everyone has their finger on the pulse of their strengths. In our experience, that’s not the caseWe also [...]
… are yours worth catching? (Great line that we’ve seen attributed to Aussie cricket great, Steve Waugh, but I’m sure it came from somewhere else first!).Actually, do you even know your attitudes? If you’re not fully aware of those attitudes, then you’re probably not realising how you’re infecting people around you! When the conditions around [...]
I love the piece on Mental Toughness but mostly the thought about choosing to see your confidence as valuing the difference you can make to people. I have never chosen to think about my confidence in this way, I think I’ve always chosen to shy away from the view of being seen as confident and [...]
In some research we were involved in a few years ago, we found a couple of interesting things out about people who were voted as very mentally tough by folks who understood their world.First thing was that mentally tough people had confidence that didn’t break down easily - it wasn’t necessarily very, very high confidence, [...]