Most people start the week reacting. Meetings fill the calendar. Emails dictate the day. And before long, the most important things get squeezed out. But what if your week was designed differently?

Mental Skills and Leadership Coach Andrew May and PQ Operations Lead, Angela Poon, share a simple concept they call the 5 Big Rocks: identifying the five priorities that truly matter and placing them into the week first.

Once those are locked in, everything else fits around them.

It’s a simple shift, but a powerful one. Instead of reacting to the week, you design it. This Bite Size explores why starting with your most important commitments can transform productivity, reduce overwhelm, and create a week that actually reflects what matters most.

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You know that quiet thought you have sometimes: I’m capable of more than this. Not more ideas. Not more knowledge. Just… more execution.

That gap between what you know you could do and what you actually do? That’s where most people live. And it’s costing you energy, confidence, results.

Craig Harper has spent decades watching high performers wrestle with this exact tension. The ones who move forward aren’t the most talented - they’re the ones willing to do what others avoid: discomfort, repetition, honest self-reflection.

This is a reset on how you think about effort, potential, and what it really takes to perform - consistently, not occasionally.

If you’re tired of hovering at 60–70% in your work, your health, or your life, this will challenge you in the best way. Because transformation doesn’t live in what you know. It lives in what you’re willing to do.

In this episode Andrew and Harps talk about:

1:30 Why Craig is fascinated by the topic of the performance capacity gap and Criag’s life path from being a teenager to where he is now.

12:05 Embracing your fear to overcome your limits and recognising your own self awareness to become your best self.

22:30 Craig’s tips to building a better you inside and out and why you can’t just play with theory all your life.

32:00 Understanding your own mind may be the biggest challenge you can face and as Socrates says “the beginning of wisdom is to know thyself”.

42:00 Why Craig feels better in many aspects of his life now than when he was in his 30s and having a lack of confidence in yourself can be crippling.

51:00 What do you say to yourself when you wake up everyday and why Craig doesn’t want everything in his life to be a 10/10.

You can find Craig at his website:https://craigharper.net/
At his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/craiganthonyharper/
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Being a head coach can be one of the most exposed leadership roles in sport. Every decision is scrutinised. Every result is judged. And the pressure rarely switches off.

That’s why the relationship between a head coach and the people supporting performance is so critical. Mental performance coach Aaron Walsh and performance strategist Andrew May explain why their first step with any team is aligning with the head coach.

Clear expectations. Honest conversations. A shared understanding of what the mental skills program can actually deliver.

Without that alignment, even the best program can struggle to land.

This Bite Size reveals what those early conversations look like and why respecting the pressure head coaches carry is essential to building trust, influence, and lasting performance change.

You can find Aaron at his LinkedIn: https://rb.gy/xoz5e

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