John's Blog

Stretch your Comfort Zone

This week I have had the privilege to speak in Switzerland at the ‘Brits in Business’ event organised by the Department of International Trade. The three-day trip was very interesting and worthwhile. The feedback from the talk was really positive

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If you Believe it, you can Achieve it!

It seems quite surreal to me that this coming Monday I am flying to Switzerland with my wife Julie to speak at an event organised by the Department of International Trade. The event is on Tuesday in Geneva and I

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There is Joy Beyond the Pain

This week was fun travelling to Poland the homeland of my parents. Julie and I spent a lovely three days in Warsaw and this was the first time either of us had seen the city. While we were there we

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How to Deal with Bad News!

How do you react when something you have been working on for a long time goes wrong? I used to be very bad at this and I would react with anger and a very bad attitude. This would last for

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The 8 Qualities of a Winner

I recently came across a book called You Can, You Will by Joel Osteen who is the senior pastor of America’s largest church – Lakewood Church in Houston. He is a 6 times New York best-selling author and has an

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The Birth of a Superstar!!

The Birth of a Superstar!! The above was the headline form a national newspaper on Tuesday 9th August about someone I had never heard of before. The name of this superstar is Adam Peaty and he had just won the

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Sugar is More Addictive than Cocaine!

We hear a lot about addiction to caffeine, sleeping pills and alcohol. Can we really add sugar to that list? According to an increasing number of ‘sugar experts’ the answer is yes. Studies in mice have clearly shown that sugar

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How is your Reticular Activating System?

There are two key principles I have discovered that have transformed my life. One is the Law of Attraction, and the second is the Vision Board, or as I like to call it, the ‘Dream Board’. These two concepts are

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Don’t listen to your Inner Chimp!

This was a very interesting week where I had two back to back Mental Resilience training days with two important clients – and these were my first ones after my car accident. The first one was a full day with

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I had to be cut out of my car

I will never forget the date of my accident, it was the 24th June – Brexit day. That morning I had presented what was arguably the best Mental Resilience talk I have ever given, to an appreciative business audience. The

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My Life Threatening Event Yesterday!

Something happened yesterday which could have been life changing in a disastrous way, from which I am still recovering. This was a major incident which challenged my Mental Resilience to come through this in a positive way. I don’t want

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No Longer a Slave to Fear

I remember when I was 5 years of age and in Primary school having to stand up and read in class. I had been born to Polish parents and couldn’t speak a word of English. I remember the sniggers and

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The Gut Feeling Was Right!

I’m sat in Dubai airport ready to head back home to Nottingham, and what a good 5 days it has been. The last time I was here was in March and I had 11 meetings in 3 days. It was

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Dubai – A Gut Feeling

It’s 8am on Sunday 29th May and I am sat in Manchester airport in the Escape lounge writing this blog. I was up at 3am to get to here and I’m checked in. I am off to Dubai again, and

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What is Mindfulness?

Have you ever been driving somewhere and arrived at your destination, only to realise you remember nothing about your journey? Or started eating a chocolate bar, taken a couple of bites, then noticed all you had left was an empty

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Leave your comfort zone

I read another gem in ‘The Word for Today’ which is the daily devotional I read, and today is about leaving your comfort zone. It’s never easy to leave your comfort zone, but just because you don’t feel like doing

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Encourage Someone This Week

I read the following in a daily devotional called ‘Word for Today’ which I read every day for inspiration and it made me think. “Encouragement can work miracles. In the movie Stand and Deliver, high school teacher Jaime Escalante has

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Come and Hear Me Speak

On Monday 16th May I have been booked to give my signature keynote talk on Mental Resilience at a breakfast networking event. The event which is a 3rd year anniversary is on 16th May from 9.30am-11.30am at The Priest House

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The Futility of Fame and Fortune

I regularly read a daily devotional called ‘The Word for Today’ and I was struck by the following description of the futility of fame and fortune: Society’s fascination with Hollywood and celebrities has gone a little crazy. Millions idolise those

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Things Do Go Wrong

I have been waiting for my second cataract operation for a few months and the day finally arrived for my operation last Thursday. The first one on my left eye was last year and it went very well with great

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