neal.mcquaid on February 3rd, 2010

Cross-posted from my own personal blog

“Planning is an unnatural process – it’s much more fun to do something.
The nicest thing about not planning is that failure comes as a complete surprise, rather than being preceded by a period of worry and desperation”
- Sir John Harvey-Jones 1924 – 2008, Industrialist
I’ve been meaning to write this one [...]

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neal.mcquaid on January 29th, 2008

KILDARE, IRELAND (Irish Climbing Coaching) – Following on from the previous theme, hopefully you’ll have been thinking about what keeps you motivated.
For most people, what keeps them motivated is the aim or desire to climb a new, harder grade.
Obviously, if you’re going to put some time in on a discipline, it makes sense that you [...]

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neal.mcquaid on January 23rd, 2008

LIMERICK, IRELAND (Irish Climbing Coaching) – Continuing on from Nigel’s post last week, I’m left with the task of compiling how to translate motivation to your own situations. Stay with me here, I’ll try keep it concise and to the point!
Firstly, motivation will come in different shapes and forms for everyone. Like everything else in [...]

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nigelcallender on January 15th, 2008

Limerick, IRELAND (Irish Climbing Coaching) – What is motivation? Sage in 1977 defined motivation as “the direction and intensity of one’s effort”. Though accurate, for me, this is too objective and sterile a view. Motivation is something very personal and may not always make much sense to anyone other than the individual concerned. In a [...]

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