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Integrity – Believe it and you will grow!

I came across this article about integrity this week and thought it would be good to share with you. Bobby Jones Bobby Jones is considered one of history’s greatest golfers. But more than all his victories on the golf course,

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10-Year-Old Creates Her Own Dream Board!

One of my very favourite clients is Rolls Royce and it has been a great pleasure delivering my Mental Resilience Masterclasses to a range of staff across the company. The feedback from these has been consistently good and the Masterclasses

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The 4 Seasons of Life

I came across this story recently which describes the seasons of life really well. “There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn to not judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on

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Mental Resilience and the England Football Team

I came across this article in several national newspapers and I was impressed with the way Gareth Southgate has embraced positive phycology by hiring a top psychologist to work with the England football team. The England Manager stepped out and

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The Day I Met MAGIC JOHNSON

I had a dream to meet the best basketball player in the world in the mid 1980’s, but I didn’t know how this could be achieved. At the time I had just joined a local radio station in Newcastle called

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Things Aren’t Always What They Seem

I came across this story recently which made me think. “Two travelling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion’s guest

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I Can Make it Happen!

It’s been a fascinating week this week with two pieces of great news which I had been visualising for a while – as well as my final coaching session with a great client who tells me they have benefited greatly

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Keep Calm and Keep Going!

This week has been amazingly busy with a huge challenge to co-ordinate talks in Tunbridge Wells, Nottingham and London. On Monday I travelled to Tunbridge Wells to deliver my Mental Resilience Masterclass the following day to staff of the council

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The 5 Key Pillars of Mental Resilience

This week I ran my Masterclass for one of my very favourite clients Rolls Royce. I always look forward to running these for them as they respond so well to the philosophy and techniques of Mental Resilience. This Masterclass includes

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Sugar is as addictive as Cocaine

I’ve been re-reading my book Off the Wall – How to Develop World Class Mental Resilience recently and found the chapter on maintaining good energy an eye-opening refresher. I have summarised the chapter here to share the dangers of eating

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The Parable of the Marbles

It is a bit surreal sat in San Diego writing this blog. This is a result of a two-year journey across the world to get to this point. I first met Kimo Kippen former Vice President Global Talent from Hilton

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What Are You Grateful For?

It took around 18 months from first meeting head of marketing Jo Walchester to finally agreeing to run two x half day Mental Resilience Masterclasses for the staff of Rothera Sharp Solicitors. We met at the Nottingham City Business Club

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Re-frame from Negative to Positive

What a wonderful run of international Masterclasses I have had the pleasure of delivering over the past 7 weeks. A trip to Finland followed by Malta then three more trips to Finland – a total of 5 trips over 7

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Positive Energizers

Helsinki is an interesting city and one I would never have visited without the booking I received to deliver four Mental Resilience Masterclasses to the largest energy supplier in Finland – Fortum. I delivered the third one this week and

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Work Less and Achieve More

It’s been a nice busy week with preparation for an international trip this coming week to deliver my Mental Resilience Masterclass. I was privileged to present to the staff of Rolls Royce in Derby on Tuesday. I also had two

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Change the way you Think, Speak and Act

It is wonderful to be sitting in our hotel in Malta having finished a busy three days of delivering my keynote talk and two Masterclasses to different organisations. Before Julie and I arrived, we weren’t completely sure how things would

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You Can Train a Shark!

It has been an amazing week with a trip to Helsinki Finland to deliver my half day Mental Resilience Masterclass to the staff of a large organisation. This three-day trip to Finland was followed with a keynote talk to the

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Commitment is the Key

This has been an exciting week with a Mental Resilience Masterclass for the staff at North Hertfordshire Homes on behalf of Live and Learn and an assembly at Farnborough Academy for year 11. Both of these were outstanding. The feedback

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True Happiness isn’t all about Money

It has been a productive and busy week with several highlights, the main one being the Mental Resilience Keynote talk to the staff of April King Legal. This was my one-hour version featuring tips and techniques to help develop World

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I Made a Difference to that One!

It has been another exciting week with a couple of events being particularly memorable. The first was a great meeting with Paul King and Jonathan Maskew from April King Legal who have booked me for a Mental Resilience talk next

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