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Here you will find all of the latest news articles published in relation to all things to do with physical intervention and physical restraint, self-defence, conflict management, handcuffing and everything and anything else in general.

Should We Be Resuming Physical Restraint /Intervention/PMVA Training During Covid 19?

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Should We Be Resuming Physical Restraint /Intervention/PMVA Training During Covid 19?   This is a very interesting discussion thread that I started on LinkedIn regarding people’s views on resuming PI training.   A lot of very experienced PI trainers (many at the top of their profession) and good people commented on this thread so it is an excellent resources for … Read more

The Prison of The Mind

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The following facts are proven to the true……. # The same thoughts always lead to the same choices. # The same choices always lead to the same actions and behaviours. # The same behaviours always create the exact same experiences # The same experience produce the same emotions. # Those same emotions influence those very same thoughts. When this happens, … Read more

What You Focus On You Get More Of

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Scientific Research has shown that just one hour of focussed concentration on any concept or idea literally doubles the number of neurological connections in the brain associated with that concept or idea.⁣ ⁣ If we also consider that the average person has between sixty to seventy thousand thoughts a day but that ninety to ninety-five percent of those thoughts were … Read more

The Pareto Principle – Success Is Only 20 Percent Skill [Video]

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According to the Pareto principle, 80 percent of our success is down to possibly less than 20 percent skill?

I was recently following a thread on someone’s Facebook profile in relation to an article called ‘Intelligence Is Overrated: What You Really Need To Succeed’ that was published by Forbes in April 2012, and I have linked in to at the end of this post.

The article cites research that was carried out by the Carnegie Institute of Technology, which stated that 85 percent of your financial success is due to skills in “human engineering,” your personality and ability to communicate, negotiate, and lead. Shockingly, only 15 percent is due to technical knowledge.

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Whatever the mind can conceive and believe it can achieve

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The following was first published in 1937 “Before the close of the first decade of the 21st Century America and the world faced a financial and economic abyss that came close to collapsing the world economic system. By most estimates, the meltdown would have been far worse – up to five times greater – than that of the Great Depression. … Read more