Pressure is unavoidable in leadership. Panic is optional. High‑performing leaders are not pressure‑free, they are pressure‑trained. They regulate emotions, slow thinking, and make decisions from intention rather than reaction. Learn how to use pressure as information, not threat. When calm becomes a skill, leadership becomes sustainable. masteryofdoing@gmail.com
Here is some Happy Friday/Weekend reading or contemplating….. Enjoy The Door That Shouldn’t Exist (And Why You Need To Walk Through It Anyway) There’s a film hardly anyone’s talking about called One Big Bold Beautiful Journey. The critics weren’t kind. The audience scores were middling. And yet, I walked away from it feeling like I’d been…
Growth isn’t just operational it’s personal. Many founders, executives and leaders reach a point where what made them successful starts limiting them. They are still solving problems instead of leading people who solve problems. Scaling requires an identity shift. It means moving from expert to guide, from controller to strategist, from doer to leader. It…
The Hidden Cost of Decision Fatigue in Leadership Leaders make thousands of decisions each week from strategic moves to small operational calls. Over time, this volume silently drains cognitive energy. Decision fatigue doesn’t announce itself. It shows up as hesitation, over‑analysis, emotional reactions, and avoidance of important conversations. When leaders are tired, they default to…
Stepping out of the daily demands of leadership does more than create physical rest it creates cognitive space. When leaders, execs and entrepreneurs are away from constant meetings, decision pressure, and competing priorities, their thinking naturally reorganises. Ideas that were sitting in the background surface with clarity. It’s often during holidays that leaders notice: Clearer…
A Mastery of Doing Guide to a More Easeful Festive Season The festive season is meant to feel joyful, connective and restorative… but for many of us, the weeks before Christmas can feel more like a marathon of expectations, obligations and frantic to-do lists. I often support people who feel stretched thin at this time…
Hi Everyone, All the short videos related to making changes are consolidated together in this post. Each session runs through different topics and areas that require an examination to make changes in your life and now it will be easier to flick through each recording. Alternatively, each recording is also on the Mastery Of Doing…
As a health professional I see a lot of people, groups, companies who have fallen/assumed/been taught a helpless and hopeless set of thoughts and consequent actions/behaviours. Regardless of the area I see them, homes, health settings, workplaces, educational settings, social situations. It often makes me wonder how they got there. My logical mind and training…
I had a fabulous time presenting at the OT Conference on Saturday #NTQLD2018. I spoke about OTs using Coaching as an approach in their practice. For anyone in Australia interested in the book for OTs using coaching in their practice, Enabling Positive Change: Coaching Conversations in Occupational Therapy, it can be purchased in 2 ways.…
We have all heard it, change, something needs to change, someone needs to change, and there is so much change. Change, change, change, change, change. Yes, there is but for many of us our lives very much stay the same, we see the same people, we participate in the same routines, we have the…