Blog Posts

Stephen Baker Performance Coaching Blog

Welcome to My Blog about Performance Coaching, your go-to resource for valuable insights and strategies to optimize your personal and professional growth. my blog is dedicated to helping you unlock your full potential and achieve unparalleled success in all areas of your life.

In my blog, we delve deep into various topics related to performance coaching, offering insights and strategies to help you excel in your personal and professional endeavors. Our experienced coaches share their expertise and proven techniques to enhance your performance, overcome challenges, and achieve your goals.

When should I trust my Intuition?

WHEN SHOULD I TRUST MY INTUITION? Few issues are more divisive in psychology or in application in wider fields than that of whether there was any value in the concept of ‘intuition’ or its application...

CHILD

When I was working in London, the London Underground started a series of posters which were displayed in the underground trains.Sitting ,or often, standing in airless, overcrowded carriages these...

No Pain, No Gain?

No Pain, No Gain? “If we are hunting the highest version of ourselves, then we need to turn work into play and not the other way round. Unless we invert this equation, much of our capacity for...

Wired for Pessimism

“Your brain is like Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones.” ― Dr. Rick Hanson, Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence To call someone...

The Limits of ‘Injecting Logic’

What are the major roadblocks to progress in high performance environments and how do you move past them ? It is certainly true to say that anyone looking to succeed at a professional level in a high...

Personal Development

Do you read self-help or personal development books? Have you ever done so and tried to apply the lessons offered up by the author with, at best, mixed success? Many people who are looking to upgrade...

GOOD

A few years ago I read some of the work of Eckhart Tolle. I was in a different place at that stage of my journey and , at that time, I had trouble accepting the practicality of this idea which he...