Mar 6, 2022 | Mental Toughness
Much has been written about how Mental Toughness contributes to increased performance; however, even more fundamentally, Mental Toughness has a significant impact on Wellbeing. In fact, Wellbeing is almost a “precursor” to high performance – it is difficult to...
Feb 28, 2022 | Mental Toughness, Personal Development
There is a difference between a good performer and a great performer, and that difference is Mental Toughness. If you want to be good at anything you will need to learn and practice the associated competencies. If you want to be a good tennis player you will need to...
Feb 17, 2022 | Mental Toughness
There is still a misconception that Mental Toughness is all about biceps, triceps & testosterone and that doing one-finger press-ups, running up hills with a backpack and swimming across icy lakes will help you to develop it. In fact, it’s quite possibly...
Feb 14, 2022 | Leadership, Mental Toughness
There is a thin line between Mental Toughness & Mental Roughness and the line is “awareness” When coaching those with particularly high Mental Toughness, typically scores of 8 to 10 on the MTQ suite of questionnaires, I always get them to investigate how...
Jan 17, 2022 | Mental Toughness
I realised recently that I have been helping people to develop their Mental Toughness for almost forty years now. The first activity I was involved in after giving up my career in the chemical industry was working with children and adolescents; essentially in...
Jan 13, 2022 | Mental Toughness, Teams
Having mentally tough individuals in the team is one thing, having a mentally tough team is something else. We all bring strengths to a team, some of us are heads down and focussed on achieving the team’s objectives, some of us are questioning the team’s...
