I want to talk about something that has done and continues to play a big part in my life and that is the broad concept of ‘fitness’. For the purpose of this, I believe fitness as people understand it can be broken down into diet and exercise. I would like…

Basketball is great. Aside from being a wonderful sport it lends itself to some great metaphors for performance and continuous improvement. Basketball is, in simple terms, about putting a ball in a basket. The more times you succeed in doing so, the more points you get and the more successful…

All too often, people sell themselves short. We have a tendency to put these mental blocks in our minds, limits on our potential. A conversation I had with someone recently involved me telling them about my training program. Their reaction went something along the lines of “Wow. How do you…

The animal kingdom is something I find absolutely fascinating. It is awash with wonderful metaphors for life and for human performance. Animals and their traits are true, unadulterated and they allow themselves to be far more of an open book than we humans will ever be. Today, let’s consider the…

NOTE: This article is mostly about complacency and the importance of avoiding it. Whilst writing this, I realised that I had written something similar on LinkedIn in April of this year which you can read here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/alpha-omega-beta-zeta-michael-dowling/ Anyway, here are my thoughts this week. I dealt with an organisation recently…

Like most of us, I spent last Sunday evening glued to the television watching the Euro 2020 final between England and Italy. …

I had a bad day in the gym recently. My training sessions are normally two-hours in length but on this particular day by about the seventy-minute mark I was on my knees — totally spent. A set of an exercise of which I could normally manage 15–18 reps, I was…

Thanos from Marvel and Two-Face from DC are two comic-book characters whom I enjoy. Murderous and genocidal tendencies aside, they share a passion for duality and equilibrium. Positive and negative. My slightly obsessive, compulsive tendencies make the concepts of evenness and symmetry appealing in many walks of life. That stops…

Many people waste time waiting for the perfect situation to come to them, wanting to be good at something without putting in the grind and the hours required to achieve the level of competency they desire. People tend to want a magic pill for things, a silver bullet. …