Technologies

Performance Coaching

"When I announced to the press I was taking time away from Rugby due to my Bi-Polar I hired Luke McDonald to help me better manage my mind and emotions. In just 3 sessions Luke assisted me in making the all the changes I needed to make so I could return to the game. Whether you want to make personal changes on or off the field I can highly recommend Luke McDonald.

Tim Smith - Australian Rugby Player

2005 Rookie of the Year

There are many different reasons people have for using a coach to improving their performance. Sports people need to know the most up to date ways of; accessing peak performance states on cue, increasing self confidence and belief, managing their emotions and reducing stress.

Business people may want to manage their time more effectively, lower their stress levels, deal with criticism effectively or learn how to speak with confidence. If you want to perform at your absolute best there are certain things you must have in place.

You must have a strategy that works and beliefs that support you.

Macsimus performance coaching will help you build a strategy that works for you.
We personalise your own winning strategy so that what you do works, not once but all the time.

We do this through a process called “modelling” which comes from the study of NLP. Modelling is finding out precisely what successful people are doing and using that information to produce your own success.

Given the fact that the way we experience the world is filtered through our belief system part of any winning strategy must include having beliefs that support the outcomes that you are committed to and ensuring that there are no beliefs that may get in the way of attaining your goals, this is a big part of the Macsimus Life Coaching process.

When you have your strategy and beliefs in place you will achieve your goals in a shorter amount of time and with much less resistance.

PGA Golf Tour Professional Christian Hamilton says “Luke has helped me lower my golf score and turn my dreams into reality. I strongly recommend anyone who wishes to improve any part of their lives to work with him”.

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Cutting edge technologies

Where MACSIMUS PERFORMANCE COACHING really stands above the rest is in Lukes use of the most effective and up to date change technologies. Luke has used these change technologies in the most acute situations. He has worked with people who have Schizophrenia, clinical depression, drug addiction, people who claim to have multiple personalities and people ho seem to have no personality! Whatever the disorder Luke has worked with it, he understands human behaviour.

He has worked alongside Psychiatrists, psychologists, General practitioner Doctors, Social workers, Nurses and all the way to the other extreme where therapists use witchcraft and primal screaming and crying! All of these people are trying to produce the same thing. Personal change. They all have good intentions, the problem is that the model they are using for change simply is not that effective. Luke integrates the best of mainstream approaches with the newest most cutting edge change technologies.

Lukes first choice in personal change models is NLP.

Andre Agassi, Greg Norman, President Clinton, and countless other world class leaders all have one thing in common when it comes to peak performance, they have all used NLP to perform at their best.

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the study of ones subjective experience. It explores an individuals way of coding lifes experience and then uses this information to create more success, happiness or whatever it is you are pursuing.
One of the major differences between NLP and other outdated change technologies is NLP concerns itself only with HOW and not WHY. By studying HOW people are successful, by finding out HOW they use their brains we can then begin to create all the desired changes.

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NLP in the press.

NLP may be THE MOST powerful vehicle for change in existence…
-Modern Psychology

NLP cannot be dismissed as just another hustle. Its theoretical underpinnings represent an ambitious attempt to codify and synthesize the insights of linguistics, body language, and the study of communication systems
-Psychology Today

…real estate brokers and salespeople use Neuro-Linguistics to enhance their communication skills and provide them with more choices when working in a difficult situation…it shows how we make sense of the world around us and communicate.
-Real Estate Today

NLP could be the MOST important synthesis of knowledge about human communication to emerge since the sixties
-Science Digest.

EFT

EFT utilises Chinese medicines discovery of specific energy points located on the human body. Science has validated the existence of these electrical energy points. The World Health Organisation (WHO) acknowledges the effective use of acupuncture points. Personally I have used it with clients on many different issues and have found it most effective for the release of negative emotions particularly fears and anxiety. It is a very different process for making personal changes, in a lot of cases it is definitely the fastest.

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HYPNOSIS

Of all the different ways that offer personal change, hypnosis is possibly the most misunderstood. The state of “trance” that is induced during a hypnosis session is something that all of us experience numerous times each day even without a hypnotherapist by our side.

Have you ever day dreamed before? Have you ever been “far away” whilst in a conversation with someone? Every human being has experienced the state of trance, whether they use that label or not.

The reason hypnosis is so useful in the domain of personal change is because it addresses the unconscious part of our mind. It is the unconscious part of our mind that controls the majority of our behaviour.

Have you ever tried to make some sort of change only to end up frustrated after trying and failing. Perhaps you have experienced “one part” of you wanting to eat a piece of chocolate and “another part” of you wanting to eat healthy foods at the same time? Very frustrating! By using the metaphor of “different parts” in our brains wanting different things hypnosis is able to address these different needs to achieve desired outcomes.