John's Blog

There is a great time management tool developed by Stephen Covey which is the Important/Urgent grid. This describes four boxes which all contain the words Important plus Urgent but each box is very different indeed because of the small words

I remember very clearly how nervous I was as an 18 year old having to introduce professor Brown to four students sat round a table ready for our lecture from him. I remember clearly the sweaty palms, the fast beating

About 2 years ago McDonalds introduced a new type of wooden chair into their refurbishment programme. On the face of it this was no big deal but for me it ended the opportunity for me to work in the stores

This week has been interesting and busy – the highlight being the full day Time Management training session with the Salvation Army Housing Association in Manchester. I have already presented the Mental Resilience workshop to this excellent management group and

I’ve just had my car washed in my favourite car wash and it made me think how this car wash business has grown and what they have done to make it so successful. Today was a sunny day and there

Today I completed another chapter of my upcoming book on Mental Resilience and the subject for this chapter is confidence. It brought back memories of how insecure I was as a young boy and the difficulties and challenges I faced.

Happy New Year! Well here we are with a brand new year ahead of us and we have the choice to make it a great year or an average year and the key ingredient in this is good old fashioned

I had an interesting experience this week when I met someone in the car park of Bio City in Nottingham. I was just leaving after delivering a successful Mental Resilience workshop to staff of Bio City and I was greeted

About 2 years ago I created a Dream Board which is basically a bucket list of things I want to achieve over the next 20 years. The difference between a bucket list and a Dream Board is that the Dream

It was the day before the 2011 British Grand Priz at Silverstone. While Sebastian Vettel was surrounded by a sea of microphones and a cacophony of sound, some 20 yards away Lewis Hamilton was imparting his thoughts to a small,

Another busy week with two speaking events, coaching in London, two networking events finished off with a coaching session on Friday afternoon junction 28 of the M1. I’ve had a run of 6 weeks where things have been very busy

I was told a while back by a Chairman of an Academy of Chief Executives group that authenticity is key to a good workshop or presentation and I never forgot this. He said that the stories I shared from both

This week has been busy but great. I was in Bristol Monday and Tuesday to train a really good group from the South Gloucestershire Council on Time Management and Conflict Management. The day flew by with great interaction. On Wednesday

I remember as a child dreaming of things I wanted to do and sometimes these things would happen and sometimes they wouldn’t. One thing I really wanted more than anything was to play basketball for England and I dreamt about

Had another crazy but fun week with a trip to Slough to work with some Managing Directors, a trip to London to coach my client, a great curry out with potential clients on Thursday; and I write this I am

This has been another busy week of coaching and training as well as delivering a mental toughness talk to a network group. I have spent a percentage of my time over the past couple of years giving talks to various

I’ve had a wonderfully busy week this week with my regular coaching trip to London a meeting with one of the top speakers in the UK Phil Hesketh and a speaking engagement at the Rotary Club of the Vale of

Last Monday I found myself in the BBC Radio Nottingham studio on the breakfast show reviewing the papers live at 8.25am. I had arrived at 7.45am, was given a nice cup of tea and spent 40 minutes going through the