Archive for 2014

When to ease the cognitive load

Peter December 29, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

See ball – hit ball In certain sports where the players are endeavouring to hit a ball or a target, there is a very general coaching instruction to watch the ball or watch the target. The coach may specify this further by changing the word ...

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The Iceberg of Language

Peter December 16, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

Language is an amazing phenomenon, a fantastic vehicle of conveyance – and it can take many, many forms. The vehicle has a whole variety of component parts comprising a huge and wide-ranging inner language and an outer language of bodily expression. Part of that bodily ...

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A Cartesian Twist

Peter December 14, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

The ‘Questions’ In my coaching and changework I often make reference to The Four Cartesian Questions when getting people to examine their decision making strategy, especially when clients might find themselves motionless, ‘stuck’, in a quandary or between a rock and a hard place.  They ...

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Standing Still

Peter December 12, 2014 2 comments Uncategorised

Location I was in the High Street of my home town today and bumped into an old buddy from my rugby playing days. We occasionally meet up this seemingly random way – where the paths of my going from A to B in my life ...

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Robot Mind, Human Mind

Peter November 30, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

In my book “Gateways to The Zone” is a chapter called Robot Mind, Human Mind.For many of us, any and indeed most aspects of our performance – and that’s all performance – is predicated on the notion of perfection, of repetitive smoothness, something beyond critical ...

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When The Flaw Comes Up To Meet Us

Peter November 21, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

The Obsession with Perfection There is a classic quote by Homer Simpson that is the very antithesis of that pillar of NLP “There is no failure only feedback”.   Now, Homer’s philosophy is built upon his worldview that mankind’s innate desire is to “do nothing” ...

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Loosening Our Grip

Peter October 27, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

(this article accompanies ‘Horses for Courses’ – though is also a stand-alone article in its own right) Security and Protection When we want to move on, and yet struggle to make any progress because we cannot let go of something, then we hold that ‘something’ ...

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Horses for Courses

Peter October 24, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

The digital and the analogue I encountered a client who described herself as having “an over-analytical mind.” Of course there are many of us that fall into such a category as well I know, and for a large chunk of my own life I too ...

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Living The Dream

Peter October 6, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

Haircut I paid a visit to my regular barber’s last week and, like most of his genre, he is a chatty and – to my mind at least – a witty fellow to boot. Whilst his assistant dispensed my coupe de cheveux with her usual ...

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Nothing but the Kitchen Stink!

Peter October 1, 2014 Post Comment Uncategorised

Getting egged on Last evening I posted on social media “Never let a pan of boiled eggs burn dry – what a sulphurous stink!” After putting a couple of eggs on to hard boil slowly in a pan on a low heat, I had walked ...

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