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Learn the nine evidence-based psychological skills that help entrepreneurs and self-employed people like you effectively manage stress, build personal resilience, and think clearly under pressure. This self-paced training is designed for the everyday reality of working for yourself.

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Mental Skills Development

For Entrepreneurs & Self-Employed

Suffering stress and anxiety is not a prerequisite for success in self-employment–there's a better way. Mental skills provide you with the means of coping effectively with difficulty and achieving your goals. Essential Mental Skills takes you a step further with practical application of mental skills, and provides live onboarding, mental skills assessment, video lessons and much more.

Self-employed

Self-Employed

Consultants

Consultants

Business Leaders

Business Leaders

Freelancers

Freelancers

Trades

Trades

Creatives

Creatives

Why This Course Is For You

The Mental Skills Gap That's Costing You Business

And what you can do about it

You're technically excellent at what you do. You have the knowledge, skills, abilities, experience, and drive to succeed. Yet something's holding you back from making your business successful, or maybe from even starting.

Does this sound familiar?

❌ You struggle with impostor syndrome, despite your proven track record

❌ You lie awake at night worrying about meeting your bills or paying wages

❌ You undercharge or undersell yourself, despite delivering exceptional value

❌ You avoid pitching to bigger clients because you doubt you're "ready"

❌ You keep all these challenges to yourself and hope things will improve, but they don't

The Myth of Self-Employment

You've been told that technical skills and hard work are enough. But the problem isn't talent, ability, or expertise—it's self-doubt, lack of confidence, and poor composure under pressure. The problem is underdeveloped mental skills.

The Cost Is Real

Anxiety, stress, lost opportunities, underperformance in crucial moments, chronic stress, and feast-or-famine cycles that prevent you from scaling your success.

The Good News?

✅ You can develop and master mental skills through guidance and systematic practice, regardless of your starting point.

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What's Included In This Course

The course includes all the materials and resources you will need to complete the program and support you after it's complete. First, you'll receive an onboarding session to explain the entire process and walk you through the content. You also receive lesson slides, recordings of all sessions, PDF resources, access to the community space, and a completion certificate upon completing the course. You'll also get lifetime access to this course, including all future updates.

Onboarding

Before we start, I'll send you a Zoom link for live onboarding session
Assessment

Assessment

Find out your current score on levels of the 9 Mental Skills Assessment

Recordings

Each lesson includes a 15 mins or so recorded video lecture

Lesson Slides

Get PowerPoint slides available for each lesson in the program.

Resources

You'll receive PDF, audio and video files associated with each lesson
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Community

You'll receive access to the Peak Performer Community course space
Lifetime Access

Lifetime Access

You get lifetime access, including future updates to the material
Support

Support

Receive support directly from me via direct message

Certificate

All course participants receive a certificate of completion

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Testimonials

What People Are Saying

Clients include business and career people, athletes, HR departments, educational institutions, self-employed people, and companies from various domains. Here are some of their comments regarding our work together

My favourite part about working with Larry is the questions that he asks. He challenged me in ways that no one has previously, simply by asking better questions. Different questions. It definitely helped me grow in the way I manage my internal points of view that are often so critical.

Chris Carolan

Business Owner

Larry gave a workshop for me which was top class. Hugely informative and helpful in practical ways on the topic of mental skills and peak performance. So good I asked him to run it twice!

David McGeown

Sports Coaching Officer

Larry is one of the most authentic guys I know. He genuinely cares that you see results and his attention to detail is excellent. I've been working with his material now and I've seen big improvements.

Eddie Mulgrew

Business Owner

About Your Tutor

Larry G. Maguire

MSc. Org. Psych., BA (hons) Psych., M.Ps.S.I., M.A.C., R.Q.T.U. (TUOA, TUOP)

I'm an Organisational Psychologist, lecturer in HR and Organisational Psychology, and I am a registered Psychometric Test User with the BPS. I work with individuals and organisations on mental skill development, leadership, organisational culture, performance, and well-being. My background extends to 25 years of business ownership in construction and services in Ireland.

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Mental Skills

Structure Of This Course

This course comprises nine modules, along with an introduction and a conclusion. Each module includes video lessons and supporting materials such as PDFs, a slide deck and a quiz to test your knowledge. Modules are released every three days.

Introduction

Welcome to this introduction to Essential Mental Skills

Session 1: Introduction To Mental Skills

1. Mindset

Three lessons on the role of mindset, or attitude, in the development of mental skills

Session 2. Growth & Fixed Mindset
Session 3: Locus of Control
Session 4: Systems of Mind
Mindset Quiz

2. Motivation

The role of motivation in the development of mental skills

Session 5: What Motivates You
Session 6: Money Doesn't Motivate
Session 7: How To Motivate Yourself

3. Goal Setting

Lessons on the mental skill of values based goal-setting using a modified version of the SMART model

Session 8: Establishing Values
Session 9: SMART(er) Goal Setting
Session 10: The Dark Side of Goal Setting

4. People Skills

Understanding and working effectively with others is a valuable skill. Learn about it here.

Session 11: People Skills
Session 12: Emotional Intelligence
Session 13: Personality & Success

5. Thinking Skills

How you think and talk to yourself from moment to moment has a significant impact on your performance. Learn why in the following three lessons.

Session 14: The Inner Conversation
Session 15: Self Talk for Preparation
Session 16: Challenging Negative Thinking

6. Mental Imagery

Closely tied to the inner conversation, the movie reel you run in your head influences your behaviour. Learn why in the next three lessons

Session 17: Purposeful Imagination
Session 18: The PETTLEP Model
Session 19: Optimism & Reality

7. Managing Anxiety

Managing anxiety is key to mental skill development. It is linked to how we mentally prepare, so a good follow-on from the last section

Session 20: What Is Anxiety
Session 21: Understanding Stress
Session 22: Accepting Conditions

8. Emotional Agility

Developing the skills of understanding our own and others' emotional reaction to events and conditions is critical for effective decision making

Session 23: Emotional Agility
Session 24: Empathy Is Not A Weakness
Session 25: Resilience & Mental Toughness

9. Focus & Attention

Without focus and undivided attention, how can we expect to achieve the highest standards? In these lessons, I discuss how to cultivate focus and attention.

Session 26: Flow State
Session 27: Autotelic Personality
Session 28: Attention & Distraction

Conclusion & Next Steps

In this section, we summarise the course, provide a daily practice you can use to develop the mental skills you need to succeed

Session 29: The Daily Practice
Session 30: Course Wrap-up

Piece of mind

Money Back Guarantee

Get a full refund if the course is not to your satisfaction

I appreciate that the content may not be suitable for everyone, and your expectations may not always be met. So, I'll will guarantee you a full refund with no questions asked. Just let me know by email within seven days and I'll organise it.

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