John's Blog

Top Causes of Stress and How to Beat Them

It has been a busy and fun week with some great coaching in beautiful settings, meetings with potential clients and a Masterclass in Cheshire. The highlight was the Mental Resilience Masterclass I ran for Auto Legal Protection Ltd (ALPS) in

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A Tribute in Honour of my sister Christina

Today is a year to the day when my sister Christina passed away peacefully in hospital following a long battle with cancer. She was an incredibly strong woman who took things in her stride and stayed positive throughout the fight.

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Living the Dream

This week has been fun, challenging, exciting and fulfilling. The highlight was the talk I delivered at the Property Investors Network event in Nottingham. Spike Reddington asked me to speak at the event and it was my pleasure to do

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The Importance of Maturity

What an exciting week this has been delivering my Mental Resilience Masterclass to the staff of Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems Europe on behalf of Live and Learn and another Masterclass to the staff at Derby College. Both sessions were wonderful

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Do You Have Any Goals?

This week has been a lovely week with some excellent meetings, coaching sessions and a presentation to the staff of Derby College. This 2-hour Mental Resilience Masterclass was very well received, and the attendees were really engaged. I have two

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What is Holding You Back?

What a wonderful time I’ve had in Dublin this week. Dennis O’Connor the MD of HPC Group a top builder’s merchant in Ireland invited me over to run my Mental Resilience Masterclass for his senior management team. It was a

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Failure is a Springboard to Success

Last week was very exciting as I travelled to Germany to deliver my Mental Resilience session to the members of the Association for Supply Chain Management, Procurement and Logistics (BME) in Dortmund. What a wonderful group they were! Marcel Deveraux

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Post Traumatic Growth

This week has been busy and fun – the highlights being my keynote talk to the 2nd Year students at Nottingham Trent University and my regular coaching sessions. I have read the feedback from the students and it is very

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How Thoughts Can Change Your Life

This week has been an exciting week of coaching and delivering my Mental Resilience Masterclass to a Vistage Group in Cheshire. This was a great group of business owners and directors and there was really good interaction and involvement. Thank

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Show Some Class

This week has been very productive and enjoyable – the highlight being the Masterclass I ran for the staff of a fast-growing organisation called Radius Payments. This is the third time I have run the Masterclass for them on behalf

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Persistence – the Key to Success!

This week I was delighted to deliver my Mental Resilience Keynote Masterclass to the sales staff of Champions UK Plc who are one of the UK’s leading digital and brand communications agencies. They are a fast-growing family run business working

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45 LIFE LESSONS FROM A 90 YEAR OLD

It has recently occurred to me now much I enjoy executive coaching. It gives me such great pleasure to work with clients and to gently guide them to whatever outcomes they want from the sessions. Each client is unique, and

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How Well Do You Listen??

What a fun week this has been where I have personally given out 66 signed books to Rolls Royce staff following the Masterclass I ran for them earlier in the month. It was great to shake their hands and hear

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Potatoes, Eggs, and Coffee Beans

This has been a busy week with some coaching sessions, a briefing call to a large international organisation for an upcoming Masterclass in London. A trip to London to meet with the senior partners of the largest litigation lawyers in

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A Glass of Milk

We can make a difference It’s not about how much money we have or what we own, but what we do with what we have and how many people we can help along the way. If we can make a

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Research on Positivity Surprises Scientists

Yesterday I received an email from Simon Waterfield a partner at Nelsons Solicitors in Nottingham who highlighted details of recent research on the impact of a Positive Mindset which he thought I would find of interest – he was right.

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Happy New Year!

One of my favourite inspirational stories from 2018 is the Elephant and the rope story which describes an Elephant which believes that it cannot break free from a thin rope because it was conditioned to believe it couldn’t when it

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Dream it, Believe it, Speak it.

What a year this has been – it has been an amazing rollercoaster of emotions from start to finish and very exciting to experience the many new clients and adventures I have had. I remember the exciting trip to San

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Don’t Chase Happiness

It has been a great week to finish 2018 with some fabulous coaching sessions and a wonderful Masterclass for the PDW group. What a great company this is, and I am so pleased to be working with them. The Mental

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The Magic of Marketing

What a fabulous week this has been following on from two great weeks! The highlights have to be the Masterclass I ran in Penrith and the Keynote talk I delivered at an AGM at the fabulous Barnsdale Hall Hotel in

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Laser Like Focus

It has been a busy and productive week the highlight being two Mental Resilience Masterclasses delivered to Radius Payments in Crewe on behalf of Live and Learn. They are a huge organisation who have a presence in 29 countries across

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Get Up and Try Again

I can’t believe that it’s the first of December already – where had the year gone? Time goes so quickly and each day which goes by can’t be relived, it’s gone forever. It’s important to live each day as if

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You Can if you Think you Can

What an amazing week this has been – it has to be the best week I have had since I started my business 9 years ago. My wife Julie has been sending out emails to firms of solicitors and she

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