by Ollie Phillips | 16 Dec, 2024 | News & Blog
Why Does Learning Something New Feel So Hard, Frustrating, and Even Painful? At Optimist Performance, we believe that growth comes from pushing past discomfort and embracing challenges. However, learning something new—whether it’s a skill, concept, or mindset—often...
by Ollie Phillips | 20 Dec, 2021 | News & Blog
With the new year around the corner, we are all probably planning how to improve ourselves. Whether we want to be healthier, happier, more productive, less stressed, or even have better relationships and contribute more to society, we need to prepare for it....
by Ollie Phillips | 5 May, 2021 | News & Blog
Dealing with uncertainty the optimist way is not about thinking that everything will be ok. It’s about deciding to put all your energy and effort into creating the best possible outcome with what you have. By definition, uncertainty is a situation where we don’t know...
by Ollie Phillips | 12 Apr, 2021 | News & Blog
How much attention do you pay to your thoughts? Are you aware of the impact your thoughts have on your emotions and behaviours? At Optimist Performance, we believe in the notion: that thoughts influence feelings, and feelings affect our behaviours. We term this the...
by Ollie Phillips | 11 Jan, 2021 | Motivational Speaking, News & Blog
We are back in lockdown, and the situation seems even harder than before. While we understand how difficult the circumstances are, as Optimists we want to take the opportunity and try to help to keep morale high. At the moment we are all dealing with all the changes...
