Archive for 2013

About Matter

Peter September 9, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

Now I don’t propose here to write something scientific about the nature of a substance or particle, or write something particularly substantive about anything in nature, or indeed express in words anything that is really natural in some way, shape or form. No, metaphors and ...

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Growing Our Desires

Peter September 3, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

Whatever behaviours, habits, skills, and knowledge we have at any one particular time – these are things we have grown, things we have become “good at.” From riding a bike, and solving crossword puzzles, to being polite or doing impressions, we have grown our capability ...

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You are a Team!

Peter August 16, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

Enabling change, improvement, and smoothing the everyday experiences in lives. These are amongst some of the things I do when I work with people. Now with these folk it can be in the context of the sporting part of their lives, or the learning part ...

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Seeing it as BIG as a Football!

Peter August 11, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

Advertisers often make creative use of imagery to get the points across about their products. Currently there is one where two guys are playing table tennis with giant bats, and there are a group of men playing golf and one either a) uses a giant club so he cannot miss ...

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Pre-Match Nerves

Peter July 30, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

Handling our nerves and maintaining equilibrium during performance is one thing, but what about that other perennial comment I encounter, couched usually in terms like this. “Pete, I get really bad nerves before a match. How can I deal with them?” In my book Mind ...

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Mind How You Play

Peter July 2, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

Sport offers us many gateways in life, and the entire range of sports in the world are a reflection of man’s almost endless ingenuity in creating a field for Play.   Now sport can be both a love and a frustration and, to be fair, ...

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Our Stance in Life

Peter June 30, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

I started coaching cricket to two very young lads a few weeks ago. Now I may look old-fashioned but the time-worn phrase “In my day…” is not part of my coaching stock-in-trade. I showed them both how to stand ready to receive the ball and one of ...

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Charting the Wilderness

Peter June 25, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

Our Thoughtstream is a vast uncharted wilderness. When we start to chart that wilderness, set out to tame the unknown, do we ever pause to ask ourselves, “For what purpose am I doing this?” Of course this is only metaphor – and yet, as with ...

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Where Do You Think You’re Going?

Peter June 14, 2013 2 comments Uncategorised

There is a famous quote by Henry Ford: “There are two kinds of people. Those who think they can and those who think they can’t – and they’re both right.” In sporting terms this certainly applies too, because there’s thinking in there – and we ...

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Wacky Questions

Peter June 7, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

Clients will sometimes describe how certain things seem to happen for them in their lives, and by way of softening the blow either for me, or for their observing ‘other self’, they will add in this rider: “I know it sounds weird and you’ll think ...

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