Jim Bennett - HOT Leadership

The human brain is a prediction machine. It is continuously taking in your surroundings and analyzing the information it comes across. Whenever you experience something repeatedly your brain begins noticing what is important, sorting through the details and highlighting the relevant cues, and cataloguing that information for future use. With enough practice, you can pick up on the cues that predic...

A habit is a behaviour that has been repeated enough times to become automatic. The process of habit formation begins with trial and error. Whenever you encounter a new situation in life, your brain has to make a decision. Occasionally, you stumble across a solution. You’re feeling anxious, and you discover that going for a run calms you down. You’re mentally exhausted from a long day of work, and...

Few things have a more impact on our life than our daily habits. However, it is likely that this time next year you'll be doing the same thing rather than something better... It can feel difficult to to keep good habits for more than a few days, even with the most sincerest of efforts and with good motivation. Habits, like exercise, meditation, journalling and yoga are reasonable for a day ot two...

Small Habit changes can make a 'monumental' difference. Research has shown that it is easy to overestimate the importance of one defining moment and underestimate the value on making small incremental improvements on a daily basis. We can convince ourselves that a massive success requires massive action. Be it losing wiegt, building a business, writing a book, winning a chamionship... Improving by...

Our rational mind just loves it when things get nicely wrapped in a convenient package. Our brains get a good hit of dopamine – that feel-good chemical – anytime we’re able to categorise, predict or label an experience into a rational, coherent narrative. However, incoherent events occur in our lives all the time, and that’s hard for our logical mind to accept. If something unwanted happens to us,...

We are all constantly talking to ourselves. It’s like we have a number of little voices within us that all have an opinion on what we should and shouldn't be doing. We run into trouble when these small voices start to take on an active role in our lives. In small yet consistent ways, if we just take these internalised characters at face value, without checking in with our values, our life can beco...

What do we mean when we talk about our values? Values go beyond the logical and taional processing areas of our brain. Like teh aire we breathe, our values are always present and around us, whwtwer we are aware of them or not. Values are the small blocks that, when tuned into, build up over time to create the life you truly want and desire.... Resources: Example Values Dictionary https://jimbennet...

As a society, we have become obsessed with wanting to feel good, all of the time. We are bombarded with adverts for products and services that give us the promise of happiness and taking away our feeling of sadness and anxiety. It's no wonder we are caught in a "hampster wheel" of trying to feel happier to feel good enough. "You can close your eyes to things you don't want to see, but you can't cl...

Given our human tendency to seek pleasure and avoid pain, it makes sense that we seek out some emotions and avoid others. It has been said we have twice as many unwanted emotions as we do wanted ones. A small difference can make a huge difference in our lives if we atrat labelling our emotions wanted or unwanted. Let's explore in some more depth... HOT Leadership

We oftten take what our minds tell us as 'gospel'. We say things like "I wouldn't be able to do that" to justify backing out of actions that may bring us closer to to who and where we want to be. We make decsions based on what our mind tells us at that time rather than what matteers to us or our lived expereince. This is because our minds are trying to keep us safe. However, following a safe mind...

From the moment we are born we can't exist alone. We are 'primed' to connect with others and instinctively we connect with our primary caregiver - normally our mother who feeds us and bonds with us so our emorional selves so that we can be nurtured. Connection is essential for survival. As adults we don't stop needing connection - both socail and emotional. A study following Covid found that isola...

Have you noticed that many people you speak to seem to be overwhelmed. It can feel that the goalposts are always shifting. We are being asked to do more with less and less time, energy and resources. Ther are small yet effective tools and strategies that can help us break down any overwhelming situation and decipher what would be the most effective action to take at this volatile time. This is wha...

Increasingly, the West is looking to Eastern philosophies and therapies to complement, expand and counterbalance its own traditional views. In the Chinese book of wisdom, the Dao de Jing (6th or 5th century BC), the author Lao Zi describes how everything is made from nothing. The energy that flows between yin and yang is known as qi (alternatively spelt ki or chi). In Chinese and Japanese medicine...

One of the deepest false beliefs that we inherit is that we can control other people. Becoming upset at another person, whether they are five feet or five thousand miles away is a demonstration that we are trying to control what we cannot control. It is a deep illusion that sets up a powerful behavioural pattern. And then we use all kinds of rational explanations to justify our upsetness and our s...

"Shakespeare was dead right - all the world's a stage and YOU are on it" - we explore the realisation of our Goals. When we understand that our power comes from withing, and no the other way around we have a new found freedom and break old self limiting habits. Underpinned by powerful affirmations we "fly" with new found freedom.... HOT Leadership

The Alphabet of Change is about Awareness, Belief, Commitment and Dicipline. Following that bt 'breking hold of your routines' - questioning the living patterns of our week. The following the rules of attraction - being alert to opportunites that satisfys our buoyand vision of life... HOT Leadership

Have you had a significant Life Even in the last year? Here is a little Life Event Quentionairre to explore and set your compass for future happiness. Have you ever asked yourself if you're happy? Wondered properly as to why you are happy? It's something I have done - although I felt happy when I asked the question I began to doubt the answer soon enough. Let's explore together and see what conten...

When we feel stressed our predicament tends to be reflected in certain physiological and psychological symptoms, whose significance we may not fully understand. These are normal signs that we should re-evaluate our priorities - our body, or our state of mind, is telling us that something in our lives needs to change. This week we look at determining our 'base-line' - know where we are and set our...

As a child if I could dream it or imagine it, then I could do it. Everything that could be dreamed between my ears was possible when I didn't know any better. I could do everything I wanted to do: become a world cup football player, sail around the globe, climb Mount Everest, save the world from destruction, be a fireman, travel to the moon or Mars..... I was a great admirer of Thor Hyerdahl, the...

We’re at the root of our Legendary Performance Keystone, which brings us to Impact. My Behavioural Based Safety Leadership Coching took me to travelling in India. One of my coachees shared a poem from from Rabindranath Tagore, the great poet. "When you were born you cried while the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a way that when you die the world cries while you rejoice.” That’s the ultimat...

Every single output, every single bit of work comes together to form your production, your body of work. If you really want to play in the rare air of the top 5% of your industry and people walking the planet really think about your production. Really think about this concept of a monopoly born of outright mastery. Would you like to have a monopoly on what you do? Would you like to be the only per...

In our Keystone of Legendary Performance element 4 is about the power of our environment. Please think about places, stimuli, people, PSP; those things really form your environments and your environments really forge your performance. Legendary performance is the child of your environments. Your performance is really a result of the environments you fill your life with and when I say places, stimu...

One of the things I want you to think about is that every great performer, every legendary producer was super focussed. They were obsessed with their one thing. They were super focussed with their vision. They were super focussed with the idea that they could find the theory of relativity. They were super focussed with the idea that they could be the best in the world of their one skill of focus -...

The Legendary Keystone forms part of an Arch, part of a a framework. I want you to really think about it because it maps out how the best think. It really maps out how legendary performers construct and architect the way they live in the world. At the perimater you're going to see your story. What's your personal story. Your narrative is the lens through which you see the world. I believce you don...

I would like to share with and insight about legendary leadership with you which I call it t he Myth of Genius. If you watch an Elon Musk, you watch a Jay Z, you watch Picasso, you watch a Mandela, you watch a Darwin, you watch a world class violinist, you watch an amazing chess champion, you watch a great athlete, and what happens? Society suggests that these people are cut from a different cloth...