Archive for 2011

Perfectionists – Do NOT read this!

Peter February 21, 2011 Post Comment Uncategorised

In the wide range of perfectionist habits from people who have fallen off the “Good-for-Me Foods and Drinks Wagon”, to the sportspersons who beat themselves up, even in practice, the reasons are inevitably the same – they are trying to match what they’re doing to ...

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Eradicating food compulsions – more encounters with “The White Plate”!

Peter February 18, 2011 Post Comment Uncategorised

In April 2010 I blogged about the recurrence of the white plate as the featured receptacle when mapping across ‘Liked’ foods/drinks and ‘Disliked’ foods/drinks. (See blog archive). On all occasions since, when clients have actually wanted to eradicate some particular excess or craving, then the ...

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Working outside the ‘Bubble of Expertise’

Peter February 15, 2011 Post Comment Uncategorised

Last weekend I coached 3 young district level cricketers for an hour each, and it was my first coaching at this level for the best part of two years. I have to say it was a real pleasure, both in terms of our interaction and ...

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Staying a Maverick – seeing the straight and narrow for what it is!

Peter February 14, 2011 Post Comment Uncategorised

I was talking to a parent of one of the lads I coach recently, and the conversation eventually came around to how I see things as a coach, the paths I encourage the players to pursue, and how I like to coach from a neurological ...

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Dementia Diary

Peter February 8, 2011 2 comments Uncategorised

Living with and caring for my Dad and his dementia has increasingly, over the last couple of years, become something of a fertile field for me in terms of understanding the shifting states of our realities. It started out conventionally with my world and his ...

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Suck It and See!

Peter January 12, 2011 Post Comment Uncategorised

There are many times in performance when our thinking gets in our way. The more we think – the worse it gets! To stop people thinking so much (especially those within teams), particularly about the ‘what ifs?’ of techniques or outcomes, I get them to ...

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There’s often nothing casual in the casual childhood tale!!

Peter January 10, 2011 Post Comment Uncategorised

I’ve never been fond of fat on meat, especially meat in stews. Quite early in my school life the cook at primary school would do a stew for lunch. Cubes of meat with floppy, rubbery lumps of fat attached were an awful experience for a ...

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