Half Term Horrors

Half Term Horrors

by | Feb 25, 2020 | confidence, Keep it simple

So half term is over… and I need to ask, how was it for you?

Did you spend yet another year wishing you were anywhere else but the ski slopes? Did you spend your hard earned holiday yet again crying, angry and scared?

Well PLEASE! Let that be the last time! I have the answer! I can help!

My biggest wish is that people would realise that getting rid of your fear and building your skiing confidence is more simple than you think. My book on Amazon is short, simple, inexpensive and best of all EFFECTIVE! Just read below what happened to Vicki when she took the leap of faith and spent less than a lunch on the hill when she bought my book.

What follows is the unsolicited email I received from her:

“I’ve had so many weeks skiing and each year have become more fearful, anxious, upset and frustrated. My husband and friends are mad for it, but for some reason I have never truly enjoyed skiing. So before our annual trip this year I decided to do something different. I initially looked at therapy, but decided it didn’t really fit with me. After a few internet searches I found your book and downloaded it to my kindle.

I completely connected with your words and in so many places I laughed out loud as it felt like you were writing about me! I then decided that I wanted a hard copy of the book, mainly so I could flick through and add notes. I took the book with me as you suggested, chose what to focus on and kept my diary. I actually cannot believe the transformation. Instantly I was standing tall, taking up my space and telling myself “1 and 2 and turn”, I also developed a little ‘thing’ where I focus on my breathing, posture and told the demon in my head to F off. My husband, Phil, could not believe how different I looked and he was so complimentary and just so lovely. I have no idea if my actual technique improved, in fact I couldn’t give a stuff if it had improved or not. I was able to control my fear, relax and smile, laugh and joke my way down some slopes that in previous years I had sworn, frozen and cried down.

Our daughter Florence who is 5 skied with us and saw me happy and having fun, this definitely helped her to feel confident too.

This year I skied from the very top to the bottom of the mountain, we stuck to green and blue slopes, but I did it and blooming loved it. It has been the best ski week I/we have ever had.

I could go on and on…. but the only other thing I want to say is thank you. I hope you know what a difference you have made.

Vicki”

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You can only think one thought at a time

You can only think one thought at a time

by | Feb 6, 2018 | confidence, Keep it simple, Thoughts

Yesterday I took a trip over to The Chill Factor near Manchester, UK with a client of mine who hadn’t been skiing for 6 years because she had lost her confidence on the slopes.  She’s now booked to go on a family holiday over the New Year and was dreading it!  In fact, when I suggested we have a couple of hours on the indoor slope it took all her courage to say yes!

As you can imagine, the first run down after six years off was tense!  But she did it!  Then we started on re-building her confidence.  ’What’s your goal for the session?’ I asked.  ’To have a run without panicking’ she answered.  A great goal in many ways, but not so good in others.

A goal really needs to fulfil the 3 P’s – Present, Personal and Positive – well, as the song says, two out of three ain’t bad!  But I needed her to have a POSITIVE aim for our session so her goal became ‘To ski down relaxed and happy and having FUN!’  Now there’s a great goal!!!

Over the next few runs I gave her a few of my simple tips to work on from focussing on what her feet were doing inside her boots to bouncing along like Tigger (you really had to be there!)  and before long she relaxed and actually started smiling as she came down the slope!  She realised that without mentioning anything to do with technique, her skiing automatically changed.

How can this happen?  I explained that our bodies know how to balance, how to change direction.  As a racquet ball player she understood as I asked her if she has to think about running, or stopping or changing direction to reach a shot?  Of course not, she said.  And so it is with skiing.  Yes we need to have the basics under our belt but if you are in a panicky or frightened state, technique flies out of the window.

As the time passed I was aware that our session was nearing it’s end I gave her one final tip and then simply said ‘This is going to be your best run yet’.  The difference was AMAZING!  When she reached the bottom, smiling and whooping I asked what had made the difference?  ’Well’ she said, ‘All the way down I was thinking  ’I wonder why this is going to be my best run?’  And because of that thought – it was!

You see, you can only think one thought at a time.  And the thoughts we think create our actions which determine our results.  The thought I had unconsciously planted in her head was that she was going to have her best run yet, words which she repeated over in her mind as she skied joyfully down the slope!

I know that for many people this sounds just too simple to be true – but take it from me, my client and her now VERY happy family – SIMPLE REALLY WORKS!