Early Crowdfunding Momentum

When one starts a crowdfunding campaign it is very important to gain early momentum. Early momentum goes a long way for the success of an athlete or a team’s campaign. There are many different aspects that give early momentum. Firstly,the objective would be to find out your total sum that you will raise. Secondly, begin to build your support network, by that I would start looking at the four circles here. Thirdly,I would look at the benchmarks you could set for yourself. These four points are a recipe for success and will give you a running start to your campaign....

The Four Circles 2.0: The Four Circles Strike Back

This blog post is about reintroducing concepts that were exposed in a previous blog post by Mr David Ancor while adding a little new spice to the four circles. This is about breaking down thousands of campaign into those famed four circles of friends and family. There is a procedure an athlete or team can follow to reach a wider audience and get better crowdfunding results. Each circle is of differing proportion to the other and is of significant importance. One circle is very much of symbiotic importance to the other. However the one extra ingredient is how a member of...

Getting Tougher - Conquering recovery

When I started to learn about how to become more mentally tough by conquering self-talk and the other mental training techniques to get to the next level, I found out that I am able to push my body to limits I didn’t know existed. Eventually, unfortunately and undoubtedly, I discovered a condition that I didn’t even know existed: overtraining.So I decided to follow up on my toughness blogs with a blog post of equal potential, in the complete opposite direction: How to become tougher by LISTENING to your body and RECOVERING.My last blog was about ignoring your thoughts and needs...

Getting Tougher - Conquering Self-Talk

Update:Initially the inspiration for this post came from Loehr's book, The New Toughness Training for Sports. However, after falling on The Gold Mine Effect by Rasmus Ankersen, I've discovered a tremendous amount of research confirming and enforcing the power of mental toughness and positive thinking in achieving athletic excellence.Why do we stop when exercising? Traditionally (prior to the early 2000s), we believed that a decrease in performance is the result of physical fatigue - pointing to the the fact that less oxygen reaches the muscles, that lactic acid builds up and that our legs tire. The basis of this belief...