How to be more consistent with your habits
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A lot of conversations with clients and audiences recently have been about consistency. Starting a new habit is one thing, sustaining it takes a whole other set of strategies. This episode gives a few insights about how to achieve this, and find a level of consistency that keeps you on track for continual progress. - Why small actions can make a big difference - The anatomy of a habit and what that's important for consistency - How to avoid being Derailed by slip ups - Creating habits that serve rather than enslave you - Why it is essential to acknowledge the wins along...
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Michael Cody: Incredible 14 stone weight loss through Lifestyle Design
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I’m joined today by the chief operating officer at Genistar - one of the fastest growing financial services companies in the UK - Michael Cody. But you’re not going to hear us talking about financial services, or even his role as a COO, but you are going to hear about his incredible transformation over the last few years. At the end of 2020 Michael weighed over 32 stone - that’s 451 pounds or 204 kg and a BMI of over 60. Today he weighs under 18 stone, having lost - or as he puts it - ‘released’ - over 14 stone which is just about how much I weigh and I’m not...
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How to set effective New Year resolutions
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Happy 2025! It's the time of year when a lot of people will be setting New Year resolutions, even though they have a spectacularly high failure rate! In this episode I discuss the difference between goals and resolutions (and why the confusion between the two is often partly to blame for the failure), and share some top tips for setting resolutions that stick. Some people say that you shouldn't need to wait for January to bring about change in your life but if it's done the right way it can be the perfect time for it! I'm looking forward to resuming regular episodes...
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Jim Steele - Tapping into your potential
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Hello and welcome to A Bit Of A Boost with me, George Anderson I’m a wellbeing and performance coach, speaker and author and this podcast brings together guest experts, inspirational stories and ideas that I hope will you a bit of a boost. I went to the National Sales Conference in June and one of the highlights for me was seeing Jim Steele delivering his keynote. Jim is described as a ‘holistic performance strategist’ and as soon as the conference ended I was straight over to invite him on the show! This conversation was a real treat for me as bounced around...
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Cath Short - wellbeing, inflammation and menopause
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Hello and welcome to A Bit Of A Boost with me, George Anderson I’m a wellbeing and performance coach, speaker and author and this podcast brings together guest experts, inspirational stories and ideas that I hope will you a bit of a boost. My guest on today’s show is Cath Bishop, a personal trainer and women's wellness coach who has a deep passion and commitment to self-healing. We get into a number of different topics in our conversation today, including inflammation, menopause, fibromyalgia and plant-based nutrition. Cath shares some really practical ways to...
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You can only run the road that you're on
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Hello and welcome to A Bit Of A Boost with me, George Anderson I’m a wellbeing and performance coach, speaker and author and this podcast brings together guest experts, inspirational stories and ideas that I hope will you a bit of a boost. 10 years ago I was mid-way through running 10 marathons in 10 days and it felt fitting that I record an episode on the topic this week as I reflect on this challenge. There were 10 big lessons that I took away from this challenge that I recorded soon afterwards, and reading back over them recently made me realise how many of them I...
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Training on holiday: my personal approach
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Welcome to A Bit Of A Boost, I'm George Anderson, a wellbeing and performance coach, speaker and author and this podcast brings together guest experts, inspirational stories and ideas that I hope will you a bit of a boost. I recently returned from a week away with the family and a couple of people asked if I exercise whilst I'm away, or put my feet up and relax. The short answer is 'both', but the longer answer is this 16 minute podcast episode! Listen in to find out about my personal approach to training whilst on holiday / vacation. I hope this episode gives you a...
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Give yourself a Mindset Boost
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You know how important mindset is to you approach to challenges and other situations, but how do you go about improving it? It's about more than 'being more positive', and the more awareness and understanding you have about your mindset the easier it becomes to start making changes that will benefit you. In this episode I describe the 4 Peak Performance Mindsets, how to spot them and what you can do to start developing them. I have developed a free self-diagnostic tool you can use to determine your Performance Mindset Score, and see how you are doing for each of them 4...
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The Laws Of Connection - with David Robson
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Hello and welcome to A Bit Of A Boost with me, George Anderson I’m a wellbeing and performance coach, speaker and author and this podcast brings together guest experts, inspirational stories and ideas that I hope will you a bit of a boost. I’m delighted to welcome back to the show one of my favourite guests, David Robson who previously joined me back in February last year after I had read his book The Expectation Effect. I’ve just finished reading his latest book and I think you’ll find our conversation about it today both interesting and informative. The...
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Measuring performance
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Hello and welcome to A Bit Of A Boost with me, George Anderson I’m a wellbeing and performance coach, speaker and author and this podcast brings together guest experts, inspirational stories and ideas that I hope will you a bit of a boost. After a short break from the podcast I'm back, with a look at INNER performance... what it is, how to measure it, and how and why to improve it. Usually when we think about performance our thoughts run to the external markers; the KPIs at work, the times we run or the weight we lift in our training, or generally the results we're...
info_outlineMy guest on today's episode - the first of 2024 - is a very special friend of mine, Heather Barrett.
Over the years we have had so many conversations where we've got to the end and said 'we should have recorded that!', so I'm delighted to have finally managed to do exactly that.
Heather is an executive coach and author, and over the years she's been my go-to whenever I'm stuck, struggling or have an idea I want to develop.
One of the things I was keen to talk to Heather about for this podcast was her deep sense of intuition which has always been something that has intrigued me.
I wanted to dig into this and find out how she developed it to become one of her superpowers, and how the rest of us can do so as well.
This was the first 'long form' podcast that I have recorded, and we covered a lot of ground in the 2.5 hours that we talked for.
Although intuition was the main topic I wanted to explore it lead us to talk about the following as well:
- Setting intentions
- Giving yourself permission
- Vulnerability and self-compassion
- Gremlins and negative self-talk
- Creating an infrastructure for success
- Consistency
- Underestimating the things that come most easily to us
- Creating boundaries
- Finding purpose
- Imposter Syndrome
- Comfort zones
I hope you enjoy this episode and that my conversation with Heather gives you a bit of a boost!