Around 9 years ago I was still painting and decorating, and I was trying to set up a life coaching business which wasn’t going very well. I was so busy painting that I had no energy to build a business. Then
I want to thank Dennis O’Connor from Ireland a good friend of mine for telling me about this amazing story of James Stockdale who was captured during the Vietnamese war and tortured many times. Stockdale was a remarkable man whose
This morning I sat in my office watching the birds outside as I always do and I was amazed at the beauty of nature. I spent some time in a mindful state just relaxing and taking in the beauty of
It has been a great week this week with a Mental Resilience Masterclass delivered to an excellent senior team from Kreston Group on behalf of PDW. The energy in the room was high with great interaction and very positive feedback. I
Mahatma Gandhi is revered the world over as one of history’s most transformative and inspirational figures. Throughout his life in South Africa and India, Gandhi was a fearless campaigner for the rights and dignity of all people, whose constant and unwavering promotion of
As we start 2022 I want to wish you a Happy New Year and to also share something which I have used throughout 2021 to help me tremendously. It’s a belief I have about adversity and struggle, and it has
It is nice that this Saturday’s blog falls on Christmas Day a time when families come together to celebrate. This gives me the opportunity to share something I have discovered over the past few years which has given me great
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character.” – Martin Luther King Jr Very few
I watched an amazing movie on Netflix called 14 Peaks and I found it to be both inspirational and unbelievable. The man who took on a seemingly impossible challenge to climb the world’s 14 highest mountains in 7 months was Nimsdai
This information from Word for Today really made me think about initiative and taking action. “Here is what it means to take the initiative: First Know what you want. Humourist and pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, ‘Once I make up my mind, I’m
This week I have been thinking about our amazing mind and how it can affect how we feel. When we focus on something positive we feel good and when we focus on something negative we feel bad. This is the way
I came across this article in Word for Today and it really resonated with me. ‘Country singer Lonzo Green’s nephew Jimmy asked him to tune a friend’s guitar, he agreed. The problem was Jimmy’s friend was from the ‘wrong side of
Jack Ma is one of the richest men in Asia (worth about $41 Billion) who founded one of the largest companies in China — Alibaba. But he wasn’t a genius who instantly created this amazing company. He faced rejection his whole life. He
Chelsea Goalkeeper Edouard Mendy was on benefits aged 22 and considered quitting football. The giant Senegalese, who stands at 6ft 6in tall is arguably the most in-form shot stopper in the world. He was instrumental in Chelsea winning the Champions League
I came across this article recently in Word for Today and it really made me think about stress and how I am dealing with it. Answer the following ten questions honestly. 1) Are you sometimes grumpy without knowing why?2) Do you work
Last week I was privileged to run Masterclass 1 from my Mental Resilience Programme to the staff of NSG on their Safety Day. I delivered two online sessions at different times of the day and the feedback from both was
What a week! 7 Masterclasses over 3 days with six of them online and one face to face. I took on a lot this week and I will be honest it was a new challenge to run four sessions in
Winston Churchill is long remembered as one of the greatest leaders in modern history and the saviour of democracy. He was tasked with the daunting task of leading Britain and the Allied powers to victory against the Nazis during the Second World War.
First of all, I want to welcome all the staff who attended Masterclass 1 from my online Mental Resilience Programme for Pilkington Glass NSG Group this week. This was a dream come true as the NSG Group have over 22,000
I believe that in every negative situation there is a seed of positivity, which is of equal or greater benefit. It will help to use any trick you can to think of problems as ‘good’. There was a business executive who
Another great article from Word for Today I spotted this week. “To achieve success in life there are three obstacles you’ll have to be aware of and overcome: Weariness. Racehorses run at approximately the same speed; sometimes the difference between
I have just read this in the Word for Today and it made me think. Love is a Verb “Love is not just a noun; it’s a verb. It’s not what you think or feel; it’s what you do. When Mother Teresa arrived in
Albert Einstein is perhaps the most famous scientist of the 20th century. The prized physicist had a profound impact on our understanding of the universe, including basic concepts such as time, light and gravity. To this day, his work is being used to
The Power of Positive Visualisation ‘A technique involving focusing on positive mental images in order to achieve a particular goal.’ Visualisation is one of the most powerful tools that I have used, and it has dramatically changed my life. I played
