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A collection of 402 issues

Enjoyment?

One word for today; > Enjoyment Yesterday saw England comfortably put Australia to the sword. Building on their awesome championship winning Twenty20 World Cup campaign, they put to bed the utter shambles that was last year’s belittling at the hands of the old foe in the 50-over form. As our

How Do You Handle Pressure?

A delicious commentary compares people currently failing to handle pressure that have been able to in the past with those that still can. It majors on sport stars from the Telegraph’s Jim White [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/world-cup-2010/7845717/Fabio-Capello-Tony-Hayward-and-Roger-Federer-The-men-unaccustomed-to-failure....html] . As a salesperson you are

Brazil's 6-6 Formation

After just two matches each team, the World Cup is taking an ominously Latin route. I buck the ridiculous English tendency to suffer inferiority in the face of Brazilian aura. Mainly because they seldom deserve what they achieve. Yet this year they stand apart and if it leads to the

Mistake Management

Here’s a phrase I learned after watching a sports psychologist on Sky News [http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/England-Coach-Fabio-Capello-Can-Use-Sports-Psychologist-Christian-Lattanzio-To-Assess-Robert-Green/Article/201006315650532?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Page_Feature_Teaser_Region_0&lid=ARTICLE_15650532_England_Coach_Fabio_Capello_Can_Use_Sports_Psychologist_Christian_Lattanzio_To_Assess_Robert_

Seek Little Disruptions

With the World Cup party bouncing along in South Africa, I caught a documentary on the Beeb about how their 70s and 80s overseas rugby tours were disrupted by anti-apartheid activists in the UK, Ireland and New Zealand. Their achievement was to hasten the fall of the oppressive system. What

Penalty Precision

In S Africa for the World Cup at the moment my main focus is on keeping out of the storms and how to avoid my natty St George wing mirror covers being pinched off my car. Over four years ago, I blogged about how missing a stone [http://salespodder.com/

Boardman Bike Bites

Olympic gold medal champion Chris Boardman passes on long-distance cycling tips to a beginner [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/the-lycra-files/7740030/Chris-Boardmans-ten-tips-for-completing-the-Etape-du-Tour-The-Lycra-Files.html] in The Telegraph. A pair of points fascinated me about these. The first was how adaptable and relevant many of the headline hints are to

Dream, Believe, Work Hard

What on earth was I doing when I was sixteen? Incredibly an Aussie 16-yr old has just circumnavigated the globe in her shiny pink boat. I certainly felt a twinge of age when I heard about this! There was no hesitation to dwell upon thinking up a marvel of inspiring

Find That One Game Changer

Oh wonder of wonders, England are menacing the rest of the pack at a global cricket tournament. As we blasted to the latest Twenty20 final, the best commentator around, Nasser Hussain [www.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/14325.html], revealed yet another mindset attributed to 70s/80s uber-skipper Mike Brearley

From Choker to Champion

An entertaining S African in-flight mag article tickled my attention for discussing how the label “chokers” became attached to the country’s cricketers. A sport psychologist named Henning Gericke was called upon to share his successful work with the rugby World Cup winning Boks in the hope of showing the