29 March 2020
The word abracadabra is an Aramaic term which means, "I will create what I say."
It's a powerful concept.
It's why Muhammad Ali wrote the round he would stop his opponent inside his boxing gloves.
It's why Thomas Edison often announced the invention of a device before he had invented it.
It's why Jim Carrey wrote himself a cheque for $10 million before he had ever made a movie.
The most important story you tell is the one you tell yourself.
You're either held captive by your story or captivated by it and...
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15 March 2020
Leading performance psychologist and Chairman of the Human Performance Institute Dr. Jim Loehr said, "Your mindset puts a lid on what you can achieve, because your body hears everything your mind says and acts accordingly."
If you go to a restaurant you wouldn't order your least favourite dish, would you?
Yet when it comes to our thinking, we humans have a habit of choosing the most unsavoury thought patterns that don't support what we want to achieve.
If beating ourselves up worked, we would all have a six-pack, a fat...
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01 March 2020
It feels great to be chosen doesn't it?
Whether that's for the football team, the quiz team or a new job, the social approval massages the ego.
From the moment we're born, until we leave this mortal coil, someone chooses which school we go to, what college we attend, what job we get, when we're promoted, the list goes on.
So our lives can easily be reduced to one of being a follower.
Our inner voice, innate creativity and burning inspiration are often subdued by society's requirement to take orders, stay in line and maintain the status...
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