Dancing Cop Gets Into Traffic “Flow”
Often, what keeps us from getting in the flow is a mismatch between the challenge of an activity and our ability. Either the challenge is too great and we feel anxious; or not stimulating enough, and...
View Article[Flow Tip #13] Transport Yourself
In my ebook, Focused and In the Flow, I came up with 21 tips for getting into the flow. Here’s tip #13 and a Nike ad that shows you how it works: Not inspired or excited by your immediate environment?...
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[INTERVIEW] Michael Bigger On How Traders Achieve Creative Flow
Information is abundant and technology is cheap. At the same time, the good ‘ol financial models are changing. Linear, analytical thinking is not enough, and traders who don’t figure out how to access...
View ArticleHow to Focus Your Way Out of a Tough Spot (And Avoid Choking Under Pressure...
Over the weekend, I was out in Greenwich, CT to coach Navy SEAL candidates on mental toughness. Every month they show up for the Physical Screening Test (PST), which includes timed push-ups, pull-ups,...
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How To Be A Lean, Mean Thinking Machine
“Watch out! Oh no, you’re gonna screw up, you’re gonna screw up, you’re gonna screw up.” That’s what’s usually going through my head during a piano performance…..right before I screw up. Here’s what’s...
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Three Ways To Killer Focus (No Mafia Required)
Have you seen the movie Limitless? Bradley Cooper plays struggling author Eddie Morra, who is suffering from serious writer’s block. His life dramatically changes when he runs into his former...
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How To Enjoy The Job You Have Until You Have The Job You Want (Part II)
Don't be this guy. A few years back, I wrote a post about how to enjoy the job you have until you have the job you want. Here’s another suggestion Over at The Talent Code, Daniel Coyle wrote a post...
View ArticleIced Tea Vendor In The Flow
One of the surefire ways to get into a flow state is to make sure there’s an ideal balance between the perceived challenges of the task at hand and our own perceived skills — if we perceive the...
View Article[VIDEO] Visualizing the Perfect Vault
One month before the Olympics, US gymnast McKayla Maroney explained how she visualizes the perfect vault. Notice how she includes details like taking one step back, leaning back and then gaining speed...
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How to Stop Fixating When You Really Want Something
Years ago, when I was starting out as a coach, I realized I had to learn how to sell (they didn’t teach us that in business school). So I decided to sell health insurance. Yes, I chose #7 on the top-10...
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The Time I Got Busted Not Paying Attention
On Saturday afternoons, I take one of my favorite class workouts, Forza, based on samurai sword fighting, with martial arts fitness instructor Ilaria Montagnani. After the warm-up and technical...
View ArticleFive Words For Laser Focus At Work
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there was a kingdom where the people would go to their office every morning and there, they would begin one, single task, and merrily continue doing it until...
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What You Can Learn About High Performance From A Junior High School Teacher
Dave Brodkey teaches shop class to sixth to eighth graders at New Brighton Middle School near Santa Cruz, CA. Eleven and twelve year olds are typically not known for their sustained attention at school...
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[PODCAST] Flow Mastery (Not Hacking), with Jiro Taylor
Download Listen in a New Window iTunes Stitcher SoundCloud Leave a Review Clammr It Subscribe via RSS Subscribe on Android Back in August 2008, Jiro Taylor was, in his words “fat, unfulfilled and full...
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