Remembering to stay focused during exams
The Times today describes the whacking eight point lead Conservatives have, highlighting Labour’s lowest support since 1992.
And the writing is already on the wall as it seems as 65% of people expect Labour to lose the next election.
Mark is one of my latest clients and I have just issued a press release for him on how young people can stay in control of exam nerves.
He is an excellent coach and NLP practitioner and has ambitious plans to be the next Paul McKenna. He was thrilled about being interviewed on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire this morning.
But let’s go back to 1992. It was the year Conservatives won their fourth general election in a row and John Major was leader. Later that year the UK crashed out of the ERM.
On a happier note, Mickey Mouse came to Europe the same year when Disneyland opened in Paris. He somehow seems to have remained intact and a crowd puller and pleaser.
Winning Minds is a great upbeat name, very positive and indicates total control, just the way Conservatives are heading.
I know it’s working for Mark too.
Actually control is what it’s all about and we seem to have so little of it in the stressful nature of the modern world. Stress and lack of control is really the cause of so much of what is wrong in our lives; it produces anxiety, panic attacks, depression, anger, lack of confidence and people try to cope by smoking, drinking,abusing drugs and over-eating…quite a catalogue of horrors.
And the scary thing is that life for our kids is already much more stressfull than it was for us. The pressure to perform well in exams brings it all to a climax; and those poor things at Cambridge Regional College who on top of all that, have got to find a new school in the next few months to complete their A levels.
But then again, there are those poor undergraduates with the possibility of not graduating due to the threat of a strike by lecturers. Not a calm and steady way to begin adult life!
I heard Mark on Radio Cambridgeshire twice and was impressed by his outlook. My daughter (13) is a Centre of Excellence football player but there is too little emphasis put on positive thinking and nutrition with all the contact time spent in coaching and games.