The NEP Team2 May 2019 LinkedIn Do you track your habits? Earlier in the year, I listened to James Clear’s Atomic Habits (and subsequently purchased the hardcopy book). If you haven’t read it, I suggest you get yourself a copy, stat! Read full article
The NEP Team11 April 2019 LinkedIn Your brain is protecting you…and blocking your progress Our brains are wired to keep us alive. From the many years of neurological research we are now lucky to have available, we know the amygdala’s key role is to protect and prepare us for emergency events. Unfortunately for us, it hasn’t evolved from the paleolithic times and cannot decipher between a sabre tooth tiger attacking us and the project deadline for next week. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett4 April 2019 LinkedIn Do you keep a “jar of awesome?” Neuroscience and positive psychology suggests you should… You may have come across a post on Instagram which is a jar of folded up post-it notes. The gist of the caption is that once a week you write something great on a note, pop it in the jar, and then at the end of the year you read all the awesome things that have happened. Read full article
The NEP Team21 March 2019 LinkedIn How your old school beliefs are limiting your business from growth How many things do you do in a day simply because “it’s always been done that way”? Or because “that’s how you were taught at school/as a kid”? Hands up if you can honestly say you’ve challenged these tasks, activities, beliefs or behaviours? Read full article
The NEP Team21 February 2019 LinkedIn Good “pre-game” habits – Make excellence a routine For my training, I have a specific warm-up routine I go through religiously every single day. It has become second nature to me, to the point where if I don’t do it, I don’t feel right and don’t perform as well as I know I can. It’s actually the same for when I get ready for work each day. Read full article
Alex Davids14 February 2019 LinkedIn Can you really personalise performance in a team setting? At NEP we pride ourselves on individualising performance. There are no two humans exactly alike. We have so many different factors that make up our perspective it’s a wonder we can even sit in the same room as other people and find common ground, let alone come to unified decisions together. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett31 January 2019 LinkedIn When telling people to “choose your thoughts” is really dumb advice Thanks to a further understanding of neuroscience, “choose your thoughts” is generally pretty good advice. It works on the basis that our thoughts become wiring in our brains so we want to make sure that our thoughts are aligned with the wiring we want to create. Read full article
Vanessa Bennett18 December 2018 LinkedIn No you don’t need something bad to happen to build your resilience So many people believe that you can’t really build resilience until you have experienced a major setback. The good news is that isn’t true. No two brains are created the same, which means that some people are naturally going to be more optimistic and resilient than others. And thanks to neuroscience we know that brains are able to be re-wired so that resilience can be built even if it doesn’t come naturally to you. Read full article
The NEP Team11 October 2018 LinkedIn Sacrifice? It’s a choice I recently read a post from a fellow athlete I follow on social media about the hard work and effort he puts into his training and athletic career. He also, quite rightly, pointed out it was all totally his choice – he chooses to give up other things in his life in order to follow […] Read full article
The NEP Team4 October 2018 LinkedIn It’s all about me? No, it’s all about them I’ll let you in on a secret about other people’s actions…..the majority of the time (and I’m talking 99.9% of the time), other people’s actions and language have absolutely nothing to do with us personally and everything to do with what’s going on inside them right now. Yet, most of the time we take their […] Read full article