Commit

The more you fail, the more you learn.

How many times have you failed?

All the great champions have failed.

It’s how you respond to the failure that matters – we all have that choice.

Everyone has a fear of failure but how do you use that as a fuel to manage, deal with it and overcome it?

Seek failure, challenge yourself in the next seven days and seek out an opportunity to fail and make the decision to choose how to respond.

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From working closely with Irish rugby as a performance coach, Enda McNulty gives some insights into how, with Joe Schmidt leading from the top down, a winning culture and attention to detail has been embedded throughout the game in Ireland.

On this episode of Commit, Enda McNulty talks about a recent business trip to Japan and what we can learn from the East when it comes to mental training and attention to detail.

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This week on The Commit Podcast with Enda McNulty, we have Michael Kearney. From early roots in agriculture, Michael went on to manage the Irish Rugby team with great success.

What makes Michael unique is that not also has he achieved great success on the rugby pitch but also in the world of business with Home Instead Senior Care and Snap Printing.

In this episode, Michael describes his journey from being a sports fanatic in school ‘playing pretty well, every sport under the book’, to attending agricultural college, emigrating to Australia, returning to set up a business and then eventually managing the Irish rugby team.

Michael talks extensively about the importance of mental strength, ‘learning from mistakes and learning from experience is extremely important’. He also talks about the importance of dealing with your mental health early on. ‘It’s a muscle that needs to be trained,' he says.

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"The modern world abdicates responsibility, but when you're running in temperatures of -50, it's on you and only you can survive." Ultra marathon runner, Brian Bell, is a man who knows all about endurance, resilience and peak performance and is this week's guest on Enda McNulty's Commit podcast.

Describing himself as an ordinary person, he does extraordinary things and pushes himself to the limit, but, he says, if he can do it anyone can.

"If you're passionate and really want something you can achieve. People in Ireland can be afraid to dream and can be afraid to express it for fear of ridicule. But put it out there, dream and make it happen."

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On this episode of the Commit to Peak Performance series, Enda McNulty is joined by former Lions, Ireland and Leinster rugby player, Luke Fitzgerald, to discuss how he coped with injury set-backs throughout his career, how he needs to impress in his first season away from rugby, and why you need to remember and focus on the things that you do well.

"In the early part of my career especially, I was trying too hard to be an all-rounder," says Fitzgerald. "Instead, remember what it is that you do well and always focus on that."

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He's been lead dancer with Riverdance, performed over 5,500 times for the world's leading dance organisation and been at the top for 18 years. So how does Padraic Moyles maintain his peak performance?

On this episode of the Commit to Peak Performance series, Enda McNulty of McNulty Performance, finds out the rituals and techniques Padraic uses to be an elite performer.

"You have to question and critique yourself all the time," says Padraic. " When you quit you're never as close as reaching your potential. Don’t quit, keep the quest for knowledge alive, keep your passion alive and always strive to be the absolute best you can be."

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The second series of the Commit podcast by Enda McNulty, Ireland's leading performance coach, sees Enda focus on peak performance.

What is peak performance? How can you achieve it in your work and family life? And what are the secrets to elite peak performers in business, sport, medicine, emergency services and the arts?

In this series of 'Commit to Peak Performance', Enda McNulty unlocks the secrets, finding out from the best how they do it, and what you need to do to perform at your peak.

Are you able to go with the flow? Can you put yourself completely in the moment, where you are so in tune with yourself and your surroundings that it's almost as if time stands still?

"It's a reminder to slow down, to be fully centred in the now. It's a special place where we need to be for optimum performance," explains Enda McNulty in his latest '10 Minutes to Commit' podcast as he gives practical tips on achieving the state of flow with ease.

Commit! by Enda McNulty is available from Amazon and all good bookshops. To find out more, visit McNultyPerformance.com.

Do you have the mental strength to overcome setbacks in your working, sporting, personal and family life? Do you give yourself enough credit for what you're good at and doing well?

In this episode of Commit! the six-part podcast series accompanying the book of the same name, Ireland's leading performance coach, Enda McNulty, discusses the importance of mental strength and why everyone needs to be focusing on their signature strengths.

'Monitor your self-talk and make sure there's at least five positives to every one negative', he advises. 'Remind yourself always what is working well, what you're good at, and focus on that.'

Commit! by Enda McNulty is available from Amazon and all good bookshops. To find out more, visit McNultyPerformance.com.