Performance in Mind

24/06/2022

The Ten Pillars of Success: Secret Strategies of High Achievers

24/06/2022

I have news! I tried to keep it a secret (not sure how well I succeeded) but when 10 Pillars came out on Audible I got lots of lovely emails asking for a print version as people wanted to be able to mark up sections or make their own notes. So Allen and Unwin are bringing it out on 25th August! It has much of the same content - and still includes my 10 brilliant success stories (Sara Pascoe, Dame Kelly Holmes, Damian Hall, Lucy Gossage, Caspar Berry, Maxine Peake, Sean Conway, Drew McOnie, Bobby Holland Hanton) - but I've added lots of worksheets & tools - so I hope to see lots of copies covered in writing! Pre-order at:

The Ten Pillars of Success: Secret Strategies of High Achievers

14/05/2021

I have a bit of an issue with books – a good one, but an expensive one; I love them. Something so special about holding one and knowing it is going to teach you something, make you feel differently about a subject or just completely sweep you away into a whole new world. If I pass on anything to my daughter I hope it will be this love of reading....

I have a bit of an issue with books – a good one, but an expensive one; I love them. Something so special about holding one and knowing it is going to teach you something, make you fe…

09/05/2021

I was recently working on a piece for Cycling Weekly on Imposter Syndrome and realised one of the reasons cycling can seem such a mysterious world (even to really competent riders) is the history and the language. We may know that simply grabbing our bike and going for a ride is enough to make us a cyclist - even if the ride is just commuting to work or to the café to meet friends – but deep down when we know there are hundreds of years of stories of races, riders and roads we feel we can’t be a ‘real’ cyclist until we have learnt a lot more....

I was recently working on a piece for Cycling Weekly on Imposter Syndrome and realised one of the reasons cycling can seem such a mysterious world (even to really competent riders) is the history a…

04/05/2021

Dan Bigham is a cyclist and engineer who wanted to use his engineering knowledge to have a crack at the national team pursuit championships. I won’t give too much of a spoiler but the process went well and gives a story we all love to read; the wannabe’s underdogs taking on the establishment and overcoming. His book covers this journey. It does it in a really accessible way and in doing so highlights the lessons we too can use to hit our own goals....

Dan Bigham is a cyclist and engineer who wanted to use his engineering knowledge to have a crack at the national team pursuit championships. I won’t give too much of a spoiler but the process went …

22/04/2021

I was intrigued about this book as one of the authors (Jerry Lockspeiser) is at the same running club as I am. It was co-authored by Andrew Roberts. I love hearing the stories of runners; what they love about running, what they hate, what helps them to thrive and what helps them survive. Running Stories does this. The book profiles 88 people with only one thing in common; they run....

I was intrigued about this book as one of the authors (Jerry Lockspeiser) is at the same running club as I am. It was co-authored by Andrew Roberts. I love hearing the stories of runners; what they…

10/04/2021

Over lockdown a number of people reached out who needed support for disordered eating but didn’t fit the NHS guidelines for getting support. They couldn’t afford private psychology and nutrition help and were struggling. This lack of NHS support unless you have a specific BMI is scandalous. Hope Virgo ( on twitter) has a campaign called Dump the Scales where she hopes to get eating disorders proper funding and support....

Over lockdown a number of people reached out who needed support for disordered eating but didn’t fit the NHS guidelines for getting support. They couldn’t afford private psychology and nutrition he…

05/04/2021

So, hands up – I am biased. I am in this book! Just a little bit but Damian and I worked together before his epic Pennine Way record attempt in the summer of 2020 and he discusses the work we did in the book. But despite me marring the pages I still loved it. It is full of words you are not used to seeing in grown up books (bimble, bobbins) and disgustingly full of snot and dislodged toenails and all the grim stuff that goes with running very very long distances....

So, hands up – I am biased. I am in this book! Just a little bit but Damian and I worked together before his epic Pennine Way record attempt in the summer of 2020 and he discusses the work we did i…

24/03/2021

We tend to make our memories around milestones. Birthdays, school terms, sporting events or competitions and holidays are those pillars around which our memories attach. Except this last year. Birt…

24/03/2021

We tend to make our memories around milestones. Birthdays, school terms, sporting events or competitions and holidays are those pillars around which our memories attach. Except this last year. Birthdays were celebrated without physical parties, school was often at home, sporting competitions have been mainly cancelled or held behind closed doors and holidays are still missing in action. So the year full of restrictions seems to have flown by because we have fewer memories of it....

We tend to make our memories around milestones. Birthdays, school terms, sporting events or competitions and holidays are those pillars around which our memories attach. Except this last year. Birt…

03/03/2021

When lockdowns last year meant work got quiet I worked on a fab project... and it is published in a couple of weeks. I Can: The Teenage Athlete's Guide to Mental Fitness. It covers all the ways teens can get more confident and skilled at managing the mental side of sport and includes lots of interviews and advice from elite athletes including Olympic/Paralympic Gold medallists in football, cricket, rugby, swimming, track and field, canoeing, cycling, fencing and rowing. Available for pre-order from Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/i-can/josephine-perry/9781914110009

05/01/2021

Offering another workshop to help athletes learn some skills and tools to handle the next 7 weeks. It is this Thursday at 7:30pm on Zoom. Free tickets here:

11 different psychological tools athletes can use to develop mental fitness over lockdown and beyond.