A Bit Of A Boost

One tool that's massively changed things for me in the last few months has been my approach to planning, which has elevated my sense of effectiveness and productivity from 40% to 80%. In today's episode I outline the different elements of my personal process and why I include them. My system may not be the perfect solution for you, but my hope is that there are a few elements you can take and experiment with, and experience some of the same benefits that I have enjoyed.

Chris is the race director for one of the UK's most popular ultra marathons, Endure24. With running events starting to look more likely to take place again this Spring, I wanted to get the inside scoop on what's happening with events in the UK, what's going on behind the scenes, and what we can expect to see with these races. He also gives some pretty eye-opening insights to what it's like being the race director for an event like Endure. RaceSolutions.co.uk

Over the last few years there's been an explosion in the number of wearable health monitoring devices, gathering data on our heart rates, movement, and even sleep quality.

One of the less well known variables is heart rate variability, which I had never come across until a few years ago when I saw today's guest giving a talk at Lords cricket club. Simon Shepard is a chartered physiotherapist, and he's been head of health and performance at Lords cricket for the last 30 years.

In our conversation today we get into what HRV is and how it differs from HR monitoring, what it tells us about our stress levels, and what we can do about it. Optima-life.com

SMART goals, big scary goals, creating a vision of your success so that you're magnetically drawn towards it... There are many different approaches to goal setting and on this episode I share mine. Following the GOALS framework that my Great GOALS online course is based on (bygeorgeanderson.com/goals) I lead you through each element to help you set more meaningful goals that make a difference, not just when you reach them but at each step along the way.

For today's episode I'm joined by TV star Vicky Pattison, I'm a Celebrity winner, Masterchef finalist, author and host of the Vicky Pattison: The Secret To podcast. Our conversation revolves around the subject of the inner critic - that niggling, annoying little voice inside your head that chastises you, judges you and puts you down. We talk about her relationship with her inner critic, how it's evolved over the years, and how she deals with real life critics. Check out @vickypattison on Insta!

Why do some of us struggle to perform at our best when the pressure is on, whilst others seem to thrive? How is pressure different to stress, and how can we change our relationship with it so that it becomes a force for helping rather than hindering us? I caught up with accredited psychotherapist and performance psychologist Sam Bishop (sambishopcoaching.com), to discuss all of this, and he shares some fantastic insights, metaphors and strategies to help us perform at our best, under pressure.

I'm keeping it in the family for today's episode, as I'm joined by Kenneth Keavey, my brother-in-law and founder of Ireland's largest organic box delivery scheme Greenearthorganics.ie. We talk about repairing our relationship with food, understanding where it comes from, the benefits of keeping it local and what lead to the breakdown of the supermarket supply chain 12 months ago.

There are 5 Roles that we all have to play in our lives. Not roles for other people, but roles for ourselves - Director, Manager, Worker, Coach and Administrator. I've been using this basic framework to help me get clarity on which of the roles needs attention or support. In today's episode I explain each of them, and discuss how articulating your principles can help you more closely stick to them.

Today's interview with co-founder of Wolfhound Fitness in Mullingar, Katie Murphy, is absolutely jam packed with insights and nuggets of wisdom to give you a bit of a boost of motivation and positivity. We talk about how our values can influence our resilience, what it was like being given a life expectancy of just 13 years, and why the biggest compliment Katie ever received was 'I didn't notice you at all'. Follow Katie on Instagram at @Wolfhound_Katie and check out her website wolfhoundfitness.ie

If you drop your toast on the floor and it lands jam side down, do you automatically assume that this is how the rest of day is going to go?

Are you a glass half full or glass half empty kind of person?

Today's we're getting into the topic of optimism. What is it, why it is helpful, and how can we build a more optimistic mindset?

In this episode I explain the '3 dimensions of optimism', and how a pessimistic or optimist mindset might view positive or negative events