ONE PERCENT BETTER Sharing small mental health & performance coaching insights to help you win each week -- all in 3 mins or less. Written By: Justin Carotti, LCSW, LADCLicensed TherapistPerformance Consultant for High Performers How to Stop Overthinking, Thought Loops and Acceptance I’ve been a practicing therapist and coach for over 10 years, and some of my favorite work that I do is working with other thinkers. In psychology, there is a word to describe consistent overthinking, and...
8 days ago • 6 min read
ONE PERCENT BETTER Sharing small mental health & performance coaching insights to help you win each week -- all in 3 mins or less. Written By: Justin Carotti, LCSW, LADCLicensed TherapistPerformance Consultant for High Performers Why Your Brain Loves Worst-Case Scenarios, the Stories You Tell Yourself, and 3 Tools to Stop Negative Thinking As I wrapped up a session with a client the other day, we collectively took a look at our availability in an effort to plan our next meeting and he noticed...
15 days ago • 4 min read
ONE PERCENT BETTER Sharing small mental health & performance coaching insights to help you win each week -- all in 3 mins or less. Written By: Justin Carotti, LCSW, LADCLicensed TherapistPerformance Consultant for High Performers Blind Spots, Self-Awareness, and a Window You Need to See While self-reflection isn’t always required for change, becoming more self-aware is almost always the first step towards behavior change. As a coach, clinical supervisor, graduate level professor and...
22 days ago • 3 min read
ONE PERCENT BETTER Sharing small mental health & performance coaching insights to help you win each week -- all in 3 mins or less. Written By: Justin Carotti, LCSW, LADCLicensed TherapistPerformance Consultant for High Performers Seinfeld, Shyamalan, and the Power of Streaks According to comedian Brad Issac, Jerry Seinfeld had strong advice for new comics: [Seinfeld] told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next step was to get...
29 days ago • 4 min read
ONE PERCENT BETTER Sharing small mental health & performance coaching insights to help you win each week -- all in 3 mins or less. Written By: Justin Carotti, LCSW, LADCLicensed TherapistPerformance Consultant for High Performers Don't Miss This Hey all! I was recently featured on the No Permission Necessary podcast with Molly Bierman and Jill Giffin to discuss the state of men's mental health care. I was the first male guest they've had, and I'd love to make this episode the most engaged one...
about 1 month ago • 6 min read
ONE PERCENT BETTER Sharing small mental health & performance coaching insights to help you win each week -- all in 3 mins or less. Written By: Justin Carotti, LCSW, LADCLicensed TherapistPerformance Consultant for High Performers Scales, Stress, and Why Aiming for Balance is the Wrong Target If you haven’t read Jim Collins’s books, you’re missing out on some world class wisdom on how to improve not just how you personally think, but how you can understand the world of business. I was first...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
ONE PERCENT BETTER Sharing small mental health & performance coaching insights to help you win each week -- all in 3 mins or less. Written By: Justin Carotti, LCSW, LADCLicensed TherapistPerformance Consultant for High Performers **A Quick Note Before We Dive In**I’m excited to share that I’ll be featured on several podcasts over the next month. I’ll include links in OPB as each episode goes live. If you’d like to hear me talk about high performance, men’s mental health, the experience of...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
ONE PERCENT BETTER Sharing small mental health & performance coaching insights to help you win each week -- all in 3 mins or less. Who Not to Hire, Who to Keep, and 3 Simple Hiring Rules 3 Heuristics for Hiring I once was interviewed for a podcast and the interviewer asked what my hiring process was like as the Chief Operating Officer for a mental health organization and Founder of a group practice. He didn’t like how simple my answers were, because frankly, it doesn’t have to be that...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
ONE PERCENT BETTER Sharing small mental health & performance coaching insights to help you win each week -- all in 3 mins or less. Mongolian Horses, The First Day of School & Lessons in Survival The Mongolian people have an incredibly strong tie to horses. Much like the West’s relationship with dogs, Mongolians have a deep cultural connection to horses. As just one measure for their appreciation for the animal, they have over 500 words in the Mongolian language to describe horse traits and...
2 months ago • 3 min read