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02/09/2024

Thinking is useful… up to a point. But true creativity comes from a place beyond thought.

Embrace stillness.

28/08/2024

A few pics to mark what has been a fantastic trip. Love . Great times.
Thanks 🙏🇺🇸

13/07/2024

“Being Olympic champion doesn’t change me as a person: I’m still Eve!”

Despite winning gold in 2022, is one of the most down to earth, humble and ‘normal’ people I’ve ever had the joy to spend time with. She’s also a talented golfer, athlete and bagpiper extraordinaire - but it hasn’t gone to her head - not always the case amongst elite athletes! She’s still ‘just Eve’ - funny, warm, kind and one of the friendliest athletes I’ve spent time with. A role-model for sure.

Eve is my guest on A New Way of Being, link in the comments and on my bio page 🙏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧🥇

02/04/2024

Thrilled to have been asked to speak on behalf of - a wonderful organisation making such an impact in the world. I’ll be sharing the recognition and understanding that has had such a profound impact on my life - drawing on examples from the interviews I have been fortunate enough to host over the last six plus years.

In essence it’s about how to recognise that we are all ‘enough’, and then expressing that in our life. Too many of us seek to become ‘enough’ through success, approval, attainment and accumulation. That is destined to fail, so it’s all about doing a 180.

Previous speakers include Dalai Lama, Ruby Wax, Mo Gawdat, Laurie Santos, Andy Puddicombe, Gretchen Rubin, BJ Fogg, Kristin Neff, Rick Hanson, Angela Duckworth, Marty Seligman, Dan Goleman, Lori Gottlieb, Rangan Chatterjee, Matthieu Ricard, Jon Kabat-Zinn, Jay Shetty, Sian Williams, Oliver Burkeman and Arianna Huffington. Esteemed company indeed.

Come join us, link in comments

16/02/2024

Delighted with the response to my book launch.

As someone messaged me only this morning, “Started reading your book on the tube. F**k me it’s good”

Not my words! But might be just the nudge you need to dive in ❤️🙏💫

Have you read it? Are you going to? Intrigued by what flow teaches us about our essential identity? Let me know 👇

12/02/2024

“Do you know what my secret is? I don’t mind what happens!” - Jiddu Krishnamurti

Acceptance is the key to a life well lived. When we resist how things are, we suffer. Wisdom lies in accepting and responding, not resisting and reacting.

However, there is some confusion as to ‘how you do’ acceptance (particularly self-acceptance). The paradox is it is not something you do with your mind, it’s something you STOP doing. This took me a long time to learn, and we discuss this crucial distinction in this episode.

When you are triggered and feel insecure or angry, rather than resisting it and demanding the world doesn’t brush up against your inner wounds, realise it’s an opportunity to recognise where you are currently not free internally. Being triggered becomes a welcome opportunity for acceptance and growth.

This is such an important subject and one we discuss in today’s 3rd episode of ‘Success Evangelism - and a new way of being’ on The Life Lessons Podcast. Self-acceptance and recognising we are enough NOW is key to this new way of being, rather than having to achieve success to become enough some time in the future.

Join me, my co-host (and wife) Alex, Jonny Wilkinson, Lucy Gossage and no -dual philosopher Rupert Spira for this one 😊💫

Link in comments

31/01/2024

Acceptance isn’t something you do with your mind, it’s something you stop doing. Specifically - resisting. Resistance is something thoughts (the ‘thinking mind’) do (eg. ‘I don’t like X’).

Awareness (the ‘aware mind’ in my book) is inherently accepting. It has no capacity to resist anything, hence why people refer to it as emptiness. That’s where true acceptance is.

26/01/2024

Thanks HELLO! magazine, it was a pleasure to contribute to this 💫

23/01/2024

Very grateful for the fantastic reviews of Champion Thinking: How To Find Success Without Losing Yourself in the Mail & the Express. The coverage and feedback has been hugely positive, which I am so pleased about. Have you started reading my book, and what do you think? Let me know 👇🙏

18/01/2024

Publication day! Now on general release - Champion Thinking: How To Find Success Without Losing Yourself 💫🍾

16/01/2024

Big thanks to for recognising The Life Lessons Podcast. We do try and spread a little positivity, without veering into ‘success evangelism’. Why? Because fundamentally just being ourselves is enough 😊💫

15/01/2024

‘Simon skillfully weaves the implications of the recognition of our true nature with compelling sporting anecdotes. The intention behind this book is beautiful, and I highly recommend it.' Rupert Spira

It meant a lot to get this lovely book endorsement from Rupert Spira. His work has impacted me a lot. It’s about recognising who we are at a fundamental level. The recognition can truly be life changing.

Speaking of which, on The Life Lessons Podcast today is Piers Thurston, who is incredibly skilful at leading people through self enquiry, a process to reveal your fundamental nature prior to psychology. Piers leads an exploration during our conversation, so check it out.

And Chanpion Thinking: His To Find Success Without Losing Yourself is out this Thursday. Purchase link in bio 😊💫

12/01/2024

A few Life Lessons from Champion Thinking: How To Find Success Without Losing Yourself, published by and on general release Thursday Jan 18. Pre-order link in bio. Sound interesting? Let me know below 😊💫

10/01/2024

"Business leaders, sports coaches, and indeed anyone with pretentions to 'improving themselves' ought to read it."

I'm so grateful to everyone who was kind enough to endorse Champion Thinking, including University Challenge host, R4 Today presenter and all round top bloke

Why is this book of use to businesses? Because it links three key themes:

1) Burnout (62% of employees felt burnt out in 2023)
2) Psychological Flexibility (the 'superpower of wellbeing, and antidote to 'imposter syndrome')
3) Flow (when we feel and perform at our best)

Illustrated through stories of world's elite sporting performers, I show how to avoid 1), develop 2) and get into, and harness, 3). I have spoken about these themes for the Government's Climate Change negotiation team, the NHS and many more besides, helping them avoid burnout and get into flow, so get in touch if that sounds like something your organisation would benefit from.

I'm also thrilled at the response as the promotional campaign ramps up ahead of launch next Thursday January 18. Hitting number 3 in Amazon's movers and shakers globally.

I'm going to be announcing a very special prize available to people who purchase Champion Thinking, involving my spiritual home of Wimbledon. Details to follow in an upcoming newsletter - sign up at simonmundie.com for more details.

08/01/2024

Kickstarting the countdown to my book launch

Well that was a weekend to remember! I had a blast talking about Champion Thinking: How To Find Success Without losing Yourself on the Michael Ball show on Radio 2. I did my first book signing (do let me know if you want me to do one for your team/ organisation!), and wrote a piece for the Observer about the key lessons from the book which you can read here.

Then I was delighted to see the book move up to number 3 on Amazon’s Movers and Shakers list, and fly up the rankings, with pre-sales going up 22,000 %. And the book isn’t out until Thursday 18th January.

It shows me that there is an appetite for this core message and recognition: that ‘success’ is not synonymous with happiness.

You know the story: we think we’ll be happy when X happens (the job, house, relationship, World Cup, Olympic gold medal). Frequently people reach the top of their Everest and feel underwhelmed or even empty. ⛰

But flow is inherently enjoyable. Why is that? Because as thoughts about past and future drop away, so does our identity and sense of self. And we love it when that happens!

That’s why we love losing ourselves – in sport, music, conversation, books, dance – the portals are vast.

While we think we want to become a ‘somebody’, we are happiest when we realise at the deepest level we are ‘nobody’. On that level, we are always at peace, whole and connected with everyone and everything.

I think this is an understanding the world could do with tbh, and is an upgrade on the usual ‘success evangelism’ which is so pervasive.

Please can you support by sharing this post, and by pre-ordering Champion Thinking: How To Find Success Without Losing Yourself, and get in touch if you would like me to come and speak with your team 😊

05/01/2024

This isn’t about being passive in the face of things you know to be wrong. It’s about accepting then responding, rather than resisting and reacting. Two totally different energies. Resisting and reacting inherently creates further psychological suffering.

03/01/2024

New Years Resolutions - doing or Being?

‘Run three times a week’, ‘stand on one leg while you are brushing your teeth’. People typically set New Years’ resolutions based on goals, achieving, and ‘doing’, but instead, perhaps consider a way of ‘Being’?

Ine certainty is that the coming year will throw up challenges: uncomfortable thoughts and feelings internally, and unforeseen and disruptive events externally. You can’t predict what challenges we will face – and not embracing that fact, and then resisting the challenges when they do arrive, is a surefire way to anxiety, tension and suffering.

My conversations with sporting legends have shown me that acceptance is one of the keys to living a good life. Jonny Wilkinson told me how he created stress and tension for himself during his playing career. If matches didn’t go to plan, he carried regret for months, and in the time between matches for club and country, he would cause himself huge anxiety by obsessing about what might go wrong in the future – a future that was inevitably unknowable.

It was only when he was fully accepting of how things were in the moment, which only happened when he was actually on the pitch playing a match, that he was free to create moments of magic – not least his World Cup winning drop goal in 2003.

So, consider aiming to be accepting of our experience as it happens throughout the year, and be in-sync with flow of life. I would humbly suggest setting a resolution with this in mind: to be more accepting of how things actually are, rather than how you think things should be.

When stuck in a traffic jam – don’t bang your fists on the steering wheel at the injustice of it. Recognise that this is just the way it is now, and save yourself from an unnecessary extra layer of stress.

When you feel sensations of anxiety before giving a presentation, like a racing heart or butterflies in the stomach, don’t try and wish them away. Instead welcome and befriend them, because what you resist persists.

Acceptance is a key theme I talk about in Champion Thinking: How To find Success Without Losing Yourself, on sale on January 18th - and available for pre-order now. Link in comments.

02/01/2024

We are conditioned to think that happiness and contentment is a place we will arrive at in the future. But nothing objective ‘out there’ in the world can actually make us happy, and certainly not for a sustained period. It can only reveal the wellbeing that already exists in us. And the future never actually arrives - it is always now.

A key insight is, as Jonny Wilkinson said on my podcast, ‘what you are looking for is where you are looking from’. That statement might appear to be something of a riddle, but once you recognise what it is pointing to, it is a game changer.

Champion Thinking: How To Find Success Without Losing Yourself, published by , is on sale from January 18th. 💫

A massive thanks to the incredibly kind and all round top bloke for such a glowing endorsement. Legend.

11/12/2023

Taking Perspective From History

It's clearly a challenging time, with wars in Europe and the Middle East, the cost of living crisis, the climate emergency and political instability home and abroad. Having a sense of anxiety about the current state of affairs is both understandable and commonplace.

And yet, without in any way belittling anything that people are currently going through around the world, you can find some solace by looking to the past. When Professor Suzannah Lipscomb told me that when she is asked what period of history she would choose to live in, and her answer is now - it is somewhat reassuring.

As she points out - we don't have the plague every 16 years, as well as things like influenza and syphilis. We don't starve when the harvests fail, as they frequently did. It wasn't that long ago that infant mortality was through the roof, with 1 in 4 children dying before the age of one. A very high proportion of mothers died in childbirth too, plus for a few hundred years there was a fascination and trend in torturing and murdering 'witches'. So, in many ways, humanity has never had it so good.

As Suzannah put it, history can provide both a sense of perspective and empathy. She is this week's guest on the Life Lessons podcast, in which she also shares some of her own nuggets, not least about focus, digital minimalism and getting in flow - as a prolific author (seven books and counting), TV broadcaster and host of the Not Just the Tudors podcast from

Have a listen - and feel free to give it a share. You might feel a little better about the current state of affairs as a result!

LINK - https://podfollow.com/tllp

05/12/2023

“It wasn’t ‘me’ kicking it, it was a knowing of it”

If that sense of ‘me’ we all have can disappear (an experience we love), just how real is it?

Latest vid on YouTube - link: http://www.youtube.com/

28/11/2023

Redefining ‘success’ - example 1

27/11/2023

How to harness the power of Lucid dreaming for psychological growth & healing - you spend a third of your life asleep, might as well put it to good use! has been awarded a Churchill fellowship to work with veterans suffering with PTSD - and the effects are profound

27/11/2023

Lucid dreams are when you know that you're dreaming while you're asleep. Basically you’re asleep AND awake. Sound familiar? The dream still feels vivid and real. You may even be able to control how the action unfolds, as if you're directing a movie in your sleep.

Lucid dreaming can be harnessed for profound psychological growth and healing. It has been shown that it can have a profound and positive impact on addictions, phobias, trauma and PTSD. It was even used in a scientific study to improve an Olympic team’s ability to perform squats. Science has finally caught up to something which has been known and understood for thousands of years in Tibetan Buddhism, Sufi mysticism and shamanism.

Have you noticed when you have a dream, you always appear as a character or subject within it? Other people and world’s appear around you - but the reality is it’s all you. So when something scary appears - that’s a chance to show your shadow some love and integrate it into your psyche.

But here’s something to consider. We are so sure that in the waking state we ARE all separate. But what if the same thing was true as in a lucid dream? That separation was illusory and actually everything was connected - and made of the same stuff, consciousness? That’s the essence of non duality, which may sound bonkers… until you explore how materialism is incoherent, how the universe was shown to not be locally real by last year’s Nobel prize winners and more besides.

I explore the power of lucid dreaming and how to harness it for healing in this week’s Life Lessons podcast and have uploaded a short video to my YouTube on the spiritual implications specifically. Link in bio 💫

23/11/2023

What is self enquiry? It is a way of establishing what we are actually referring to when we say ‘I’. It’s an investigation that takes us past thoughts and feelings - which we normally take to be who ‘I’ am. This latest video on my YouTube channel is a beautiful and simple walk through what is a profound and important exploration. Link in bio.

16/11/2023

The Life Lessons Podcast Live. Come say hi! Monday 27th November @ the Future Book conference in London

15/11/2023

I’m recording the audiobook of my Champion Thinking book… it’s like being on a meditation retreat, refocusing on each paragraph for hours on end. Not long now!

08/11/2023

Rethinking ADHD

Conversations about ADHD have increased significantly in recent years. I didn't know a huge amount about it until one of my listeners suggested I get professionally objectively tested - and since then I have learnt a lot about ADHD, neurodiversity and myself, and it has been fascinating.

To me it is not so much a 'disorder', as a trait. In many cases, when harnessed properly, it can be a 'superpower'.

That's why I am delighted to have produced this podcast series - Rethinking ADHD for Qbtech, who recently won the HSJ Partnership Award for the ‘Best Mental Health Partnership with the NHS’.

In today's episode I speak to former England international James Haskell, who was diagnosed with ADHD as a child when it was far less common that it is now. He shares how ADHD has propelled him on and off the pitch.

"My mind works at a million miles an hour.. I've written seven books, released eight tracks, DJ, run a podcast, write speeches... it also gets me into trouble... I speak before I think"

In last week's episode, I spoke to the brilliant Anna Brasile who has been working with ADHD patients for a decade and who explained so much about this often misunderstood developmental condition that I was completely unaware of. It was an emotional episode to record!

I am really proud of this series, and I know this is something that impacts so many people. If you could listen, share rate & review I would be very grateful.

06/11/2023

The Life Lessons podcast has a simple mission: to have discussions that reveal something important about life and how best to live it. My guests range from the biggest sporting names on the planet to neuroscientists, psychologists and world-renowned philosophers and thinkers.Guests have included Jon...

14/01/2023

Grateful to for being part of their ten podcasts of positivity for 2023 😊

23/07/2022

Embrace the extraordinary nature of ordinary ❤️

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That awkward moment when you mistake a childhood Games console for a top shelf magazine while speaking to an #Olympic legend 🙈

SOFT SKILLS & EQ “To get ahead, you have to get along”. Your ability to exercise self-control, develop self-awareness, empathise and get along with other people is integral to ‘success’.

🤷🏻‍♂️What is success? Is it simply winning/losing - or is it more nuanced than that? Of course it is! 🎾Tim Henman is this weeks DTMTS guest. He reached four Wimbledon semi-finals, losing to the Champion each time. He was ranked number four in the world. Yet there is a narrative in some parts that he is a ‘classic British loser’. It’s ridiculous! How many people become the fourth best in the world at their job? 🤔Henman was not tipped for big things as a junior, and raised the bar for British tennis on a big way. His success helped seed the ground for the success that @andymurray enjoyed in 2013 and 2016. 🏆For Tim, success means maximising your potential. I wouldn’t argue. The ‘choker’ narrative shows how fickle approval is too. Pinning our well-being on what other people think (or we think they think!) is a fools errand. Far better to find intrinsic self-worth, which is in there waiting to be (re)discovered! 💥I loved chatting to Tim. We actually go way back! Quite a funny story actually how - have a listen. Link in bio 😊🙏

🏊‍♀️Siobhan-Marie O’Connor swam the third fastest time in history at the Rio Olympics (second really, as one of the quicker two was wearing a speedy shiny suit). 🥲Last week, she announced her retirement ages just 25 to focus on her health. She has the painful, debilitating and potentially very serious condition ulcerative colitis. A key path on her journey has been acceptance, something we all have to embrace sooner or later… 🙏

POSITIVE AFFIRMATIONS 🤔 Lots of people extol the benefits of using positive affirmations to boost your self worth. The idea being that if you say statements like ‘I am lovable’ enough, eventually you will start genuinely believing it. The evidence doesn’t back it up, however. Dr Russ Harris is one of the world’s leading Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) trainers - have a listen. Full episode in bio.

ANXIETY 😱 Anxiety is normal. More than that, it is necessary. It’s not the feelings themselves that cause problems, but our desire to get rid of them. Allow Dr. Russ Harris to explain 🙏☺️

THE RUMINATOR . “He travels through time thinking about potential outcomes to certain scenarios” . Loved chatting to Clarke Carlisle - aka “Britain’s brainiest (ex)footballer” - for this week’s DTMTS. He’s had well publicised mental health issues - including five attempts on his own life - but has now learnt so much he helps other people struggling with their mr tsk health. We talked about the danger of avoiding uncomfortable emotions - which can lead to addictions of various kinds including overthinking. We talked about how we form self-limiting beliefs in childhood which can run our lives from the shadows of left unexamined, the difference between responding and reacting abs learning not to automatically identify with thoughts that pop in our heads. Clarke is very funny and full of wisdom, really enjoyed this ep, . #mentalhealth #football #Terminator #ruminator #overthinking #addiction #DTMTS

LETTING GO . So many of us want to feel in control and to know how things are going to turn out. But the reality is we don’t know what is going to happen five minutes from now, let alone in six months or a year. The challenge then is to let go of trying to control outcomes, to instead adopt an attitude of exploration. . Sport is such a great example of this. You have to show up and put the work in but then you have to let go and see what happens. In @goldiesayers case that meant literally and metaphorically! Do the work, then let go and see what happens. Get comfortable with uncertainty. . #Olympics #DTMTS #javelin #surrender #letgo #explore #control

We’ve all heard it before. “It’s all about winning trophies.” Is it though? . Why do we choose to play sport to begin with? Because it’s fun. Because we lose ourself in the activity. The same is true of music, dancing and a plethora of other activities some of which aren’t suitable for posting here. . We all love the experience of losing ourself. Conversely, when people ‘freeze’ or ‘choke’, they typically feels heightened sense of self-consciousness. Less self good, more self bad! . #DTMTS #winning #losing #flow #happiness #freedom #peace #sport #music