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'The more that you read,

The more things you will know.

The more that you learn,

The more places you'll go...'

Dr. Suess

The blog posts below pull together ideas absorbed from world-renowned thought leaders and link them to my own thoughts, observations and experiences. They combine elements of the business world, general life and competing as an endurance athlete - as the human brain doesn't exist as an isolated entity, and is influenced by our physical, mental, emotional and social wellbeing. These concepts are linked to a broader perspective of sustainable performance which combines mindset, movement, exposure to nature, nutrition, hormones, neurological health, social connections and other factors.

Anna-Marie

Feb 10, 2016
3 min

The Great Outdoors

Three months old… On a glacier in Norway… In a Fenwicks* plastic bag… In the 21st century some might call it child cruelty, though with hindsight this was probably the moment the seed was sown that leads me to reflect so positively on Arctic warfare training with the marines in Norway, mad marathons starting at Everest Base Camp and extreme treks across the Sahara Desert. This adoption or “download” (Bargh & Morsella, 2008) of cultural norms through an unquestioned passive i

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Enjoy a Cultural and Conversational Intelligent Christmas

Anna-Marie

Dec 22, 2015
2 min

Enjoy a Cultural and Conversational Intelligent Christmas

Hollywood picture postcard images of Christmas bombard our senses earlier and earlier each year. The festive season is heralded as a period of fun, celebration and joviality amongst family and old friends. However, over recent years a common theme I’ve observed amongst family and friends is pure exhaustion in the effort to surpass the culturally and socially constructed expectations of a “perfect” Christmas. Our festive traditions replicated year on year become entrenched dee

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Anna-Marie

Nov 17, 2015
3 min

How Coachable Are You?

Pick a number, any number, and then multiply it by 1,000. Your answer will undoubtedly fall short of the numerous coaching models that exist and are currently being devised. The creation of a personalised coaching model is a coach's means to announce to the world, “I’ve consolidated all my skills, experience and knowledge into this framework”, “I’m frightfully important” and “I have found THE answer to coaching”. Clearly I’m being slightly facetious as coaching models integra

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Anna-Marie

Jul 30, 2015
2 min

Life in Motion

My diary schedule reflects an immense professional and personal period of transition experienced over a small time frame in the last month. Sunday 28th June 2015: International Coach Federation Monthly Board Meeting, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Monday 21st July 2015: Coach Training Business Development Meeting, London, UK The time scale of a few weeks separates these meetings and two distinct worlds to mask a “complex process of extended and ambiguous ‘in-betweenness’” (Basit, Brown

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