How to avoid unproductive meetings

Sure, there are some meetings that are super productive, but let’s face it, there are probably more that aren’t. And it leads to much frustration, which is basically energy that could be spent on actually being productive. So here are a few super easy tips to get you out of meetings that you don’t really […]

I’ve always been a morning person. I feel better once I’m up and moving before the day gets hectic and simply have a sharper intellectual focus in the morning. My energy naturally dips mid-afternoon, so focusing on heavy, draining tasks at that time is totally unproductive for me. Years ago, in my early corporate career, […]

Picture this scenario: you are working away and then someone sends an email which makes you feel annoyed or angry. Chances are it may feel as though they haven’t listened to your thoughts on something, or perhaps they are challenging your work in some way, or perhaps it might even feel like they are blaming […]

There are just some people in life who seem to exude success and high performance. It is as though it just comes so easy to them, nothing seems to challenge them. In reality, these people, who seem to have luck on their side, work hard – damn hard. They challenge themselves and the status quo around them regularly.

At NEP we work with amazing clients. And while many of them are lucky enough to have their company put them forward (and pay for) a coaching program, many of them are investing in the programs themselves. Now we don’t mind what level in their career our clients are.

Now I’ll admit when it comes to household chores I really don’t like them. They are a massive drain of my energy to even think about doing them. Thankfully my wonderful partner is amazing at doing the cooking, but he doesn’t love vacuuming much more than I do.

So this may come as a surprise to anyone who knows me from my adult life, but I was painfully shy all through primary school. I was definitely more confident in high school but I was starting from a really low base.

Part of achieving high performance is making sure you are doing work you really enjoy. So a big part of what we do at Next Evolution Performance is to help people to find a role or career they get excited to get out of bed for.

I ran one of our Science of Sustained High Performance workshops recently, which includes a focus on mindset. I was explaining how a friend of mine always (and I mean ALWAYS) gets a great park at Bondi Beach throughout summer regardless of time of day – this is no mean feat as any Sydneysider knows!