REMEMBER ME ! - LEARN HOW YOU CAN BE BETTER IN BUSINESS BEING A MENTAL ATHLETE
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE - DEALING WITH STRESS AND HOW TO FOCUS
VULNERABILITY - VULNERABILITY IS THE KEY TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP . IF YOU WANT TO SUCCEED , YOU FIRST HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO FAIL
GMA Conference Wrap
REMEMBER ME ! - LEARN HOW YOU CAN BE BETTER IN BUSINESS BEING A MENTAL ATHLETE
Memory expert Tansel Ali handed out some helpful tips on how to improve you own memory .
Baldwin also highlighted the importance of Performance Review / Recovery in order to grow as a person as well as an athlete – what did we do well ? What can we do better ? According to Baldwin , success is a few simple disciplines practiced every day .
In short :
• Look for patterns presented
• Create stories – have fun , associate words , exaggerate , doesn ’ t need to make sense or be
possible , don ’ t be logical
• Use the following skills - visualisation , association , imagination
THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PERFORMANCE - DEALING WITH STRESS AND HOW TO FOCUS
The Director of Equalize Training Company Nam Baldwin is highly qualified emotional and stress control / management specialist and has trained World Champions , including Mick Fanning .
Using Mick Fanning as an example , Baldwin gave insight to how a high performance athlete thinks , demonstrating NEAT :
N – see it as normal
E – expect it
A – accept it T – tidy it up
before pressure situations
Furthermore , Baldwin suggests that we continuously challenge ourselves , exercise regularly and set routines in order to cope better with pressure .
VULNERABILITY - VULNERABILITY IS THE KEY TO ENTREPRENEURSHIP . IF YOU WANT TO SUCCEED , YOU FIRST HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO FAIL
Leanne Faulkner of Fortitude at Work ’ s presentation was in the form of a story of Leanne herself recounting the highs and lows of small business , and her own experience with mental illness .
Concluding her story , Leanne offered the following signs that success in business is increasingly hard to achieve if presented :
• Feeling physically unfit
• Unable to sleep
• Obsessive thinking
• Unable to make decisions
• Unable to follow directions
• Poor response times
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