Achieving Peak Performance

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My Alliance colleague Juan Coto has been working closely with tennis player Johanna Konta for over a year. As Johanna soars from one achievement to the next – as I write she has just played Angelique Kerber in the semi-finals of the Australian Open, the first female British player to get that far in over three […]

Flow, Stretch Goals and Cliff Top Paths: How to set yourself appropriate challenges

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Flow, the classic book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on how to achieve happiness and enhance the quality of life, argues that nine conditions need to be in place for us to be able to have an enjoyable experience, one that gets us ‘in the zone’ or into a place of ‘flow’. One prerequisite is that the […]

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A 2.4 mile swim, 112 miles on a bike, then a marathon run of 26.2 miles. This is what it takes to complete an Ironman challenge. To win one it takes someone like Chrissie Wellington: driven, passionate, focused, super-fit. At the second of the Meyler Campbell Workshops on Ultra High Performing Women, we had the […]

Lessons from elite rowers Katherine Grainger and Cath Bishop

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‘I wasn’t very sporty at school.’ This immediately got me sitting up straighter in my chair. Not a surprising revelation, you might think. You might, except that the person I’m quoting is former Olympic rower Cath Bishop. She urges us not to be held back by our own or other people’s (pre)conceptions of us: we […]

Oxfam Trailtrekkers – the Big Walk is almost upon us!

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After months of planning, preparation and training, the big day is almost upon us. According to the Oxfam Trailtrekkers guide, this last week should be about ‘tapering’, resting and ‘carbing up’. With weekends of stomping out 20-30km practice walks behind me, I’m personally looking forward to a few days of guilt-free plates of pasta and […]

Oxfam Trailtrekkers – the build up to the big walk!

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The Oxfam Trailtrekkers event, a formidable 100km walk in the Yorkshire Dales, is almost upon us. Our Alliance Yompers team, both walkers and support crew, is gearing up for the big day. Linda F, the initiator of this huge adventure, Daniel, David and myself have been out pounding various pavements, country roads, hills and canal […]

Go for Gold: What the Olympics can teach us about achieving our goals

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In advance of the Olympics, my outlook on them was rather cynical. I’m ashamed to say I thought they would be a costly shambles in which Team GB would underperform. Not particularly a sports fan, I even went to the extent of being out of the country when they kicked off. Fortunately, I returned while […]

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