Mindset: Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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Building championship readiness: lessons from an Olympic athlete and coach
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
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Resilience & grit
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Management
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- Three to five pivotal moments each year make or break careers.
- Chasing perfection kills timing — focus on the 1–2% that must go right.
- Preparation earns the belief that you deserve to succeed.
Staying the course: how to think long-term when results are slow
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Goal setting
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Resilience & grit
7
Long-term planning
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- Real traction from building expertise takes two to three years minimum.
- People underestimate timelines by up to 12x — calibration beats willpower.
- Intrinsic value and trusted advisors prevent quitting just before the breakthrough.
Resilience & grit
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Why struggling with learning is essential to changing behaviour
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
- Knowledge is easy; behaviour change is what real learning actually means.
- Mastery takes thousands of hours — early discomfort is the signal, not the problem.
- Your mastery doesn't make the struggle easier for people you lead.
Productivity & habits
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Building leadership habits through consistency and decision stamina
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Productivity & habits
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Resilience & grit
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Delegation
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- Every small decision drains a finite cognitive reserve — habits conserve it.
- Heuristics pre-decide whole categories of choices, freeing you to lead.
- Consistent two-minute starts beat ambitious beginnings that collapse.
Resilience & grit
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Comfort zones and capacity: how introverts can grow without burning out
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
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Productivity & habits
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Work-life balance
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- Your comfort zone is a recovery base, not a cage
- Tiny, structured first steps beat ambitious leaps every time
- Celebrating small wins is what makes the long game sustainable
Resilience & grit
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How parental presence shapes children's brain development
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
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Communication
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Deep work & focus
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- One thing predicts children's outcomes: reliable presence, not enrichment
- Dismissing a child's feelings trains them to stop sharing
- Repaired ruptures actively build resilience, not just undo harm
Productivity & habits
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Ten principles for learning faster, drawn from guitar lessons
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Productivity & habits
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Resilience & grit
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Coaching
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- Daily 15-minute practice beats a single two-hour weekly session
- Struggling with a new skill is a feature, not a failure
- Habit structure — not willpower — determines whether learning sticks
Resilience & grit
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Four steps to get unstuck and embrace change with Susan David
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
- Suppressing difficult emotions undermines resilience — noticing them builds it
- Precise emotion labeling unlocks better decisions than one-word defaults
- Want-to goals (values-driven) sustain change; have-to goals breed resentment
Resilience & grit
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How to engage with your emotions and when to seek therapy
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
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Identity & self-belief
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Communication
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- Suppressing feelings makes them stronger — they need air to diffuse
- Insight without changed behaviour is the booby prize of therapy
- Vulnerability is the prerequisite for accountability and genuine connection
Resilience & grit
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How to learn from your own errors using three deliberate steps
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
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Management
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- Your ego blocks lessons from your own failures more than others'.
- A three-step method — stop, challenge, choose — replaces panic with learning.
- Psychological safety requires skilled daily behavior, not just a good climate.
Identity & self-belief
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How to manage your inner critic and stop waiting for confidence
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Identity & self-belief
9
Resilience & grit
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- Your inner critic is a safety instinct in disguise, not the truth.
- Waiting for confidence is the wrong goal — act with doubt present.
- Never argue with the inner critic; move to the meta level instead.
Resilience & grit
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Chris Hadfield on astronaut mindset applied to everyday leadership
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
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Management
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Work-life balance
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- Simulate failures before they happen — not just success
- Arriving as a 'plus one' almost always lands as a minus one
- Waiting for the pinnacle to feel successful makes daily life miserable
Resilience & grit
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Entrepreneurial thinking every leader should adopt
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
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Long-term planning
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MVP & prototyping
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- Why a side venture is career insurance, not a distraction
- Small bets and MVPs beat 18-month plans that fail loudly
- Intermediate metrics reveal whether you're on track between milestones
Resilience & grit
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Creating a shared learning culture: the leader as curator and teacher
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Resilience & grit
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Automation & tools
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- Skill relevancy now lasts five years — and it's shrinking fast.
- Hoarding knowledge weakens influence; targeted sharing builds team performance.
- Psychological safety is the prerequisite: without it, no sharing happens.
Deep work & focus
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Practical meditation for professionals to reduce stress and sharpen focus
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Deep work & focus
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Resilience & grit
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- A quiet mind solves problems faster than a stressed one
- Start with two minutes — not 30 — to build the habit
- Return to your breath to stop one conversation's emotion poisoning the next