Tag: self-belief

  • OnTheBeach: 10 Lessons from a Day at the Cricket

    Last month, me and my dad got some tickets to a sold out game at Edgbaston Cricket Ground – my neighbour couldn’t go, so we took his place. We normally go to test cricket (the one that lasts 5 days…and there still can be a draw!), but this was a 20/20 game – quick, frantic…

  • OnTheBeach: Olympic Medallists Don’t Win By Being Negative

    I was watching Dancing On Ice (yes, quality tv) at the weekend, and Beth Tweddle (Olympic bronze medallist gymnast) was reflecting on the previous week, where she had ‘lost’ a head to head ‘duel’. “Olympic Medallists don’t win by being negative”. That statement hit me like a punch in the gut. Of course they don’t.…

  • Bitch-Slapping Versus Back-Slapping

    So when was the last time you praised yourself? When did you last shout about your achievements? When did you last give yourself a big slap on the back for a job or a life well done? Seriously, when was the last time? And when was the last time you gave yourself grief for getting…

  • Do You Believe In You?

    In an interview I watched over the course of the Olympics, one of the coaches was asked what the most important factor was in the success of these athletes.                     Belief He said that you could see the athletes who didn’t believe they could do it…

  • Pieces of a Puzzle

    “There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.” Deepak Chopra You are an important piece of the grand puzzle – do you own that? Do you live that? Do you see how…

  • OnTheBeach – Share Your Gift

    We all have gifts that we can share with the world, and one of the greatest tragedies is that we don’t. We keep ourselves small, we are self-deprecating and lack 100% self belief – and the world loses. You think I’m exaggerating? Well, let’s forget about this ‘just’ being about you for a minute, and…

  • If you had 100% self belief…

    I came across this question a week or so ago “If you believed in yourself 100%, what would you do differently?” – at the time I was working on my ebook project, and the first answer to spring to mind was that I would start asking people to look at the first draft and give…

  • Now That’s What I Call Bloody Minded!

    So, you’re playing tennis, you’re 2 sets down and in the 3rd set your opponent is serving for the match. What do you do? Well, if you follow tennis in Britain, you’ll probably know that Andy Murray went on to WIN the match! Stunning. Un-believable. I was sat in watching the tv last night with…