Resilience & Leadership from Ireland to Rwanda

09/24/18 • 24 min

Ciara Doherty is this week's guest on the Commit podcast and she talks about a life of resilience and taking control of your life and your own decisions.

Her life has not been without its obstacles or difficulties, from being a single Mum finishing college, to working as a woman in the construction industry, but she has shown that determination and self-belief will see you succeed.

Now a very successful civil engineer with H&J Martin Construction, Ciara also talks about a recent visit to Rwanda with the Bridges to Prosperity charity and how much she learned from the local villagers in overcoming the toughest of environments.

"The biggest thing I saw was how resilient the people are," she says. "They are close to each other, resourceful and agile in everything they do. They don’t have a choice."

For more from on improving your performance and well-being culture, just go to McNultyPerformance.com for more insights and information.

Ciara Doherty is this week's guest on the Commit podcast and she talks about a life of resilience and taking control of your life and your own decisions.

"The biggest thing I saw was how resilient the people are," she says. "They are close to each other, resourceful and agile in everything they do. They don’t have a choice."

For more from on improving your performance and well-being culture, just go to McNultyPerformance.com for more insights and information.

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Have you got Sinead Kane's vision-purposed life?

'The greatest gift you can give is investment in yourself,' says Sinead Kane on this week's Commit podcast and at the age of 17 she decided to be more pro-active and take control of her life.

Being born with 95% blindness, growing up was about being left on the sidelines, but at 17, when a guidance counsellor said she shouldn't pursue law in college, that was when she decided to choose to be visionary, not blind.

Incredibly, since she took up running six years ago at the age of 30, Sinead has completed the seven marathons on seven continents in seven days challenge, as well running in 12 hour and 24 hour races and holding the world record for distance run on a treadmill.

'Being optimistic is difficult and I struggle every day with it. The biggest bully in my life is myself,' she admits, but her success in life far outweighs any negative self-talk.

We all make excuses for not succeeding and Sinead has more excuses than most, but her achievements are a reason for the rest of us to try and catch up.

For more insights and information from Ireland's leading Performance company go to www.McNultyPerformance.com and to find out about Sinead's next running challenge, visit her on www.SineadKane.ie

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Make it a Flourishing Festive Christmas with our 5 Fs Plan

Our gift to you this Christmas is a plan to help you flourish over Christmas from a family, friendship, fitness and focus point of view.

Flourishing is about making the most out of your life, the opposite of suffering and negativity. It doesn’t just happen, you have to plan for it and allow yourself to get into the flourishing state.

With that in mind, let Enda McNulty, CEO of McNulty Performance, take you through the 5 Fs for flourishing at Christmas time: Family, Fitness, Festivities, Food and Focus.

“Every year I train on Christmas Day by going for a run and have been doing so since I was 14 years of age,” says Enda. “I urge people to think about planning your Christmas to maximise it and allow you to flourish over the holiday period.”

For more from Ireland's leading performance and well-being company, go to www.mcnultyperformance.com