Ever get annoyed that you keep on doing what you don't want to do? 

Do others get frustrated because you repeatedly do what isn’t wanted or required? 

I have heard the phrase ‘if I’ve told you once I’ve told you twice’ on many occasions in my life. It is a frustration with habits that we automatically repeat without any conscious effort.  

As human beings we have strong defaults that we always revert back to unless we find a way of changing them. If we have a deep desire to change what the future looks like then we need to identify what we can do to shift those defaults If we keep on doing what we’ve always done then we will keep on getting what we’ve always had. 

The barrier I struggled to breakthrough

During episode 7 of the High Performance Disciple Podcast I share that for many years I have enjoyed communicating to audiences and have never struggled to do this. However when it came to speaking directly through social media I was hitting a barrier. When communicating to an audi...

It’s time to build personal momentum

It was a cold December morning and we drove into the church car park. Leanne was already in the building and as I drove with the three children in the back of the car toward the rear of the car park I tried to brake and realised I couldn’t!

STOP THE CAR!

We were on BLACK ICE and at the bottom of the car park there was a dyke we were about to plunge down into.

I tried everything but nothing would slow the car down…it had momentum and I couldn’t stop it. I even opened the car door and tried to slow the car with my leg but bent my leg back against the curb.

Stupid idea I know but i ran out of ideas.

Thankfully the under body of the car caught the curb and this prevented the car tipping over and falling down into the dyke where ice water awaited.

That day I realised the power of momentum and its unstoppable nature.

When we don’t have personal momentum even the smallest challenges can seem to be too difficult. If we want to break through to the n...