The Leader's Portal

My dog Paddy has reminded me and taught me so much about learning, leadership and motivation. It has been one of my best learning experiences ever. You can see him in action in the video below.

             1. Confidence from competence - Practice and repetition This is possibly the most obvious one. Usually the more practised and experienced we get at a task, skill or ability, the more our confidence in our ability develops. This can also become a virtuous cycle where our practise increases our competence, our competence increases confidence which in turn makes us feel good about practising and doing that skill or performing that task again. 2. Develop an inner guide instead of an inner critic – manage negative self-talk promote positive self-talk. The voice we here most from morning to night every day is our own. Most if not all of us are familiar with the inner critic. We don’t have to work at developing it, it usually just comes along whenever we least need it. Building an inner guide takes a little more work, but you can write your own story. Invest the time in writing it and you reap the rewards.   3. Use your memory as a d...