The Peak Performance Expert

How to relieve that brain traffic jam

Does your brain feel jammed?

Do you ever wish you could push a delete button and get rid of all the junk in your noggin?

Today a client reported feeling overwhelmed and tense because of the  immense amount of work she had to complete within a short period of time.  Sound familiar?

Paying attention to the barrage of information coming at us is costly.  Most of us aren’t aware that there are different kinds of attention; we spend most of our time engaged in “narrow-objective-focus,” zeroing in on one or a few things in the foreground and ignoring the background.

In a book called, The Open-Focus Brain by Les Fehmi and Jim Robbins, Fehmi, relying on decades of research, says that the way we pay attention has a measurable impact on our brain waves.  Read the rest of this entry »

Ever since Osama bin Laden met his demise, there has been significant interest in the mystique of the Navy SEALs.  Who are these tough guys and how do they train? Can an average citizen learn some of these mental toughness techniques? 

Well, if you have any fantasies of becoming a SEAL, think again.  The training and initiation is beyond rigorous and somewhere between 75 – 90% of applicants don’t make it. 

Still, you can learn some of the techniques used by SEALs and in fact, you probably already do! Read the rest of this entry »