Are you getting your daily DOSE? If you want to stay committed, confident and in control of challenging situations, getting your daily dose of positive hormones can help While it is difficult to identify what exactly is responsible for your sense of happiness, four...
Most people are aware the physical benefits of exercise, but what about the mental benefits? Mental Toughness isn’t about having big biceps, but physical exercise can help us to Release endorphins, helping us to feel happy and boost our mood Increase brain...
Most of us have experienced driving a car and knowing it is not running well. This can be due to many factors, one of which could be that the timing is off. This means the spark plugs are not firing in a synchronized manner. The car still runs, but not very well. We...
The Latin saying “mens sana in corpore sano,” which translates to “a healthy mind in a healthy body,” is more relevant now than ever. I’ve tried to make the distinction in previous articles between “Mental Toughness” and “Physical Toughness”; Mental Toughness is not...
This is the fourth, and final, of four articles concentrating on how to develop each of the four Mental Toughness “sub-components” I work with the model developed by Professor Peter Clough and Doug Strycharczyk. In their model the four sub-components are: Control –...
