8 Habits of Highly Fulfilled People and the 8 Habits of Highly Stressed People

1. Effectiveness

Instead of seeking the most efficient way to achieve their objectives they step back and consider the most

The real reason that change is hard

Your brain is absolutely committed to consistency.

This explanation made a huge difference to many of my clients perhaps it’ll help you too.

See their perspective up until this point was that they were inconsistent, weak willed, unmotivated or somehow didn’t want it enough.

The one skill the guarantees a more successful life.

“You could cut the air in here with knife”

It’s a strange saying which points to something we all know.

We have a six sense in our

How to create responsibility in your team

Cognitive ability significantly declines in the presence of your mobile phone.

Particularly if you have a strong attachment to it. (Which is more likely than not).

Brain Drain: The Mere Presence of

After a week or so I failed.

I didn’t call it that.

I called it “I changed my mind”

I didn’t REALLY want the result.

I told myself…

How To Make The Competition Irrelevant

The Coca Cola vending machine outside your office sells 100 cans per day. You arrive one morning to see a Pepsi vending machine has arrived next to it. How many do they each sell per day?

Most assume that each machine sells about 50 cans per day.

What actually happens is…

Every show of force reduces your power

People speak less in meetings you’re in

People start taking less responsibility

The worst days start reactively

In bed until the last minute.
Grab your phone.
Check social.
Check emails.
Check slack.
Start reacting.
Trying to regain the advantage.
Get ahead.
It never quite works.
You don’t quite get to do what you hoped.
You are overrun by correspondence.
By requests for your time.
By meetings that run on.
That don’t quite achieve their objective.
The whole day somehow entirely chased and reactive.

All because of how it started.

The best days start proactively.

1. With something like meditation, perhaps formal meditation, or thinking or just peace. It’s preparing your internal state for presence. The assurance that you are right where you are supposed to be.

2. A reminder of who you said you’d be. A reminder of your values. A note that tells you how you’ll operate and how you won’t. Maybe that’s patience, calm, curious, engaged, enthusiastic and a reminder to not blame, point fingers, react, and an operating procedure to help you keep to it.

3. Sweat. - where the body goes the mind follows. When the body feels strong, stable, supple, energised and connected the mind feels the same. A short bout of daily morning exercise aligns body and mind.

4. Prepare - how will you achieve what’s important, stop the day begin reactive, win the day?

We all know that proper preparation prevents poor performance.

My clients turned preparedness into a ritual.

How do you prepare?

Do Less

Read the same book again. All learning is associative. This means if your intent is to integrate the knowledge in the book you’re reading into your life then your best bet is to read it again.

Things that DON’T make unhappy employees happier

More money
More celebrations
More time off
Less “boring” work

I do not believe that accountability is part of the recipe for success

In fact I believe it is a strong part of the recipe for stress, overwhelm and burnout.

I don’t mean to dismiss accountability out off hand and this isn’t semantics either.

If you could achieve greater happiness, health and success by doing either MORE or by doing LESS which would you choose?

That probably seems like a daft question, right?

Why would you choose to add stuff to your to do list taking away more precious time when you could choose to do less?

When you’re the global CEO of 8 companies all relying on you to provide strategy, direction, focus, clarity and support the stakes are pretty high.

Now imagine you’re in chronic pain 90% of the time, your energy is shot and you’re averaging 3 hours of sleep a night.

Same old story for leaders everywhere…

I’ve worked with leaders of small start ups to large corporations, from teams of 2 to team of 4,000, from leaders of one company to CEOs overseeing 5-8 multi-million €€ companies and 5 things show up more consistently than any other.

7 Things to stop 🛑 doing NOW if you want to build your business with less stress, overwhelm and sleepless nights

Think about it, when was the answer to overwhelm ever to seek more things to do?

NEVER. Yet when ever the to do list is mounting up along with the

Something really troubling happened about 3 months into Covid

My inbox lit up with founders and CxO’s wanting my help.

This wasn’t the troubling bit.

I like that… more please.

The troubling part was the

The biggest mistake leaders make in their leadership approach is to assume authority OVER those they are leading.

I’m not saying deliberately, there is a lot tied up in the history of leadership that helps to create this unconscious supposition.

The brain is constantly on the look out for

Business moving too slow?

Check the 3 P’s

How does your business stack up?