Mental Toughness for the “New Normal”
Do you ever catch yourself thinking that maybe all of this – this pace of relentless change and uncertainty – is really just temporary? That we simply have to ride it out and, eventually, we’ll go back to the way it used to be. You know, pre-9/11, before the financial meltdown, without the weekly slew of disasters, natural and man-made. Well, enjoy the fantasy because this is the new normal. “The pace of change in our world is speeding up,” ...
Mental Toughness in Leadership
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Peak Performance Strategist Renita Kalhorn to Present Free Online “Mental Toughness Summit” Virtual Telesummit to Highlight “Mental Toughness in Leadership” Held April 29 – May 3 With Speakers Dianne Collins, Brent Gleeson, Les McKeown and Other Thought-Leaders. NEW YORK, N.Y. Wednesday, April 10, 2013 The Mental Toughness Telesummit, a free online event to be held April 29 – May 3, brings together bestselling authors, behavioral psychologists, Navy SEAL combat veterans and start-up entrepreneurs to show how leaders ...
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
I confess, I came this close to flaking out on you. For many of you, our relationship started at last year’s Mental Toughness Summit. I had plans to make it an annual event but when April rolled around this year, I was overcome by overwhelm and inertia everytime I thought about putting together another Summit. Then synchronicity intervened. One of my former clients introduced me to the work of Dr. Les Fehmi, the author of Open Focus. I had a ...
Five Telltale Signs You Lack Mental Toughness (Or How To Know When You’re On The Road to Mediocrity)
“Recalculating…” That’s what the GPS system in your car diplomatically says when you’ve deviated from the set route. What it’s politely refraining from saying is: “Dude, you’re not following the plan.” Wouldn’t it be nice to have something similar when you get off track en route to your goals – when you’re deviating from your game plan for success? If you had a GPS inside your head, here are the “wrong turns” that would set it off: 1. You think it’s ...
Mental Toughness Summit 2013
Exclusive interviews with motivational psychologists, rock-star entrepreneurs, disruptive innovators and Navy SEAL combat veterans.
[PRESSURE SERIES] MISTAKE #1: BEING RULED BY YOUR FIGHT-OR-FLIGHT RESPONSE
Scott Raderstorf was on vacation with his family at the Golden Buddha Beach Resort in Thailand when he had the most terrifying day of his life.* Having sold their software company, he and his wife were taking their three sons on a six-month around-the-world blitz. A REAL-LIFE FLIGHT-OR-FLIGHT MOMENT Raderstorf was working on his laptop at the resort’s Internet shack when he heard a huge BOOM. He ran out to the beach, and as he stood and watched, the water ...
How To Stay Cool And In Control When Dealing With Interruptions
“The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.” André Maurois, 19th century author Gee, thanks for the tip, André . Under benign circumstances, interruptions are, at best, annoying. When you’re under the gun with a tight deadline, verging on panic, they can push you over the edge in a gritted-teeth-bulging-neck-vein “LEAVE. ME. ALONE.” kind of way. Because they’re unpredictable, interruptions exacerbate our feeling of not being in control. Think about it: a phone call is less ...
In Praise of Uncertainty (And A Cheat Sheet For Enjoying It More)
Over the weekend, I saw Point Blank, a French action thriller about a nurse at a Parisian hospital whose very pregnant wife has been kidnapped and will be killed unless he delivers to the kidnappers a thief who’s a patient in the hospital. It was sooo good. Even as my heart was pounding, I savored the twists and turns in the plot and didn’t want it to end. What’s Wrong With Not Knowing? Why do we like uncertainty in our ...
Why You Choke Under Pressure – And How To Avoid It, Part I
Blowing a high-stakes presentation, flubbing a chance conversation with a senior partner in the elevator, bombing the exam you studied months for – choking under pressure is 1) really painful and 2) usually means lost opportunities. What’s funny is that while it was our brainpower that’s instrumental in getting us to that point of achievement, it’s also the culprit that sabotages our performance. (Okay, it’s not that funny.) The good news is you can train your brain to help, not ...
The Power of 10
I’m talking about the power of ten minutes. That was the one of the recurring themes I picked up on as I was interviewing 12 diverse experts for the Mental Toughness Summit last month. For example: In visiting talent hotbeds around the world from Russia to Brazil, Daniel Coyle, author of The Talent Code, noticed that deliberate practice happened in 10-minute bursts. In a pilot study with Marines preparing for a tour of duty in Iraq, Dr. Liz Stanley found ...
