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In community pharmacy, we are always in awe of the 90 something year old patients, that are independent, witty and most importantly on little or no medication. We always lament how great they are doing and hope we will be in similar positions to them. When someone makes it to an age like my patientsContinue reading “What my 90 year old patients thought me about performance…”

I peek at my messages so I don’t get burned  My coach always tells me that bad feedback is ten times more valuable than good feedback from users of my journal.  He often said if we could pay testers to give us the negative instead of  positive feedback we would be laughing as we wouldContinue reading “I peek at my messages so I don’t get burned”

As this stage of the Tús Maith Journal journey we are trying to develop the idea and system by getting feedback from experts and people that really know what they are talking about.  After some time trying to figure out which platform would be best to use we decided Instagram is the home of theContinue reading ““They can’t kill you, they can’t eat you””

After months of consistent performance during lockdown, the world is returning to normal. We all have serious catching up to do in our social lives, that means for me anyway, no free weekends for a while and lots of alcohol.  Aside from the effect alcohol consumption has has on my recovery metrics, see the imagesContinue reading “The pubs have reopened….”

I had been using my journal for a few months and I knew I had to test it with others if I was going to do something with it. I selected five of my friends and asked them to take part, initially I was nervous to ask them but they are all great people andContinue reading “My Journal’s first test”

I waste so much time, some would say I was in the Champions League of wasting time, but I changing that. In university whilst preparing for a cardiology exam I wasted about half my preparation time learning the coagulation cascade, it’s a lot of arrows and letters and doesn’t make for easy learning. In myContinue reading “The Champions League of wasting time”

When I see these two activities grouped together like this at first glance it looks like they shouldn’t be together, however after some thought they actually have many common truths.  The following statements are true for journaling and fitness: There are no quick gains, real change or results take time Results compound over time PracticeContinue reading “Journaling and fitness?”

In the last few weeks I have been talking to many world class athletes and coaches about tracking and journaling. Often the athlete or coach would say to me “Nah I don’t journal but I track all my workouts”.  I found this curious as to me tracking and journaling are the same not disperate.  IContinue reading “Why athletes track their workouts”

After a few months of personal regular use of my journal, I knew I had to turn this into a product so I could share it with others.  That commitment to share this project forced me to think about the design of it and product design, a field I had very limited knowledge of. IContinue reading “My Journal’s Golden Circle…”

In a rare interview on the Tim Ferriss Show the elusive Josh Waitzkin describes how he trains his top performing hedge fund executives to become powerful thinkers by tapping into their subconscious mind and their deepest levels of creativity.  He describes how he systematically trains this ability in his clients and students by getting themContinue reading “How Josh Waitzkin trains hedge fund executives how to think.”