Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership What does it mean: To be competitive? To win? To be successful? The coach’s problem comes when you focus on imposing your meaning on others… The post First, learn to coach yourself ap...

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Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership The fear for a performer is to step on stage and freeze. Patricia Ryan Madson, who taught performance art at Standford University took that fear… The post What’s in the box? appeared...

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Simon Harling's blog on fitness, coaching, and personal leadership Stanivslaski, an outstanding character actor used three questions to create a character. Who am I? What just happened? What do I want? The foundational exercise… The post Creating cha...

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