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Amy Wood Brooks works at the Harvard Business School and in 2014 she wrote a paper called “Get Excited: Reappraising Pre-Performance Anxiety as Excitement”. Not the sexiest title for a document but the content is pretty darn exciting. She was looking at handling nerves and so on – and doing so in a pretty hardcore …
Worked up? Well, sort of. I’m thinking of how you tighten your muscles in Progressive Muscle Relaxation? (Let’s call it PMR for short.) This is a pretty short article because, frankly, it doesn’t take much explaining. Just do it. 🙂 [jcolumns] What’s PMR? There are lots of systems, definitions and so on, but according to …
I don’t think I’m saying any strikingly new when I suggest that confidence can come from two sources – inside and outside. I’m not suggesting their totally independent, of course: for example, dressing nicely and being complimented that you look good is an external thing, but it can have an effect in your internal confidence. …
More content coming 🙂 Keep watching this space! [jbox color=’red’ title=’Update box’] We’ll update this list when we publish new blogs. It’s the start of the month, so there’s only one other post so far 🙂 Confidence is how you feel – assertive is how you act. I’ve unpacked it in a blog post here – in …
Leading a team or doing your own marketing? Awesome! But not having the impact on the world you think you should? Less Awesome.
The StoryMaking Academy will be an answer to that problem and it opens after the summer. All you should do now is let me know you're interested and I'll keep you up to date. There's no commitment from you!
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