John's Blog

What a great week it has been, and the highlight was the Mental Resilience Masterclass I delivered to staff from Net EDI in Preston on behalf of Live and Learn. They were an excellent group who interacted brilliantly and having

I came across this account of Charles Schulz who you may or may not have heard of, but you may have heard of the cartoon he created called Peanuts. He started life with many challenges, but he never gave up

I came across this article by Omar Itani who has an interesting view about happiness, and this really resonated with me as this is something I have wanted to share for quite a while.  Everything we think we know about happiness

Love him or hate him there is one thing about Tiger Woods which we can agree on and that he has shown incredible mental resilience to come back from so many injuries in his career. Most sports professionals have 2

Chris Pratt is a talented American actor and comedian known for starring in various films and television series. His success story is a perfect example of rags from riches. As a child, Pratt lived in a van and worked at a

Mark Wahlberg is currently my favourite actor who always seems to play the tough guy role in his movies and now I know why the characters he portrays are so authentic. I haven’t seen one of his films and been

I would like to thank Peter Densham from Rolls Royce who sent me an article about the duck and the eagle and suggested it would be a good story to share in my blog. This story is featured in an article

I read this recently in Word for Today and I never knew that the Nobel Peace Prize was established in this way.    Alfred Noble “Helping people brings great fulfilment. When you spend your day serving others, you can lay your head

You have probably heard the following story about two men in a competition to see who can chop down the most trees but it’s always good to be reminded of the important things in life. I read this recently in Word

Visualisation is a very powerful technique which improves performance and helps you to achieve things you can only dream of. There is an area in your brain called the Reticular Activating System (RAS) which cuts out 99% of everything around you

You probably haven’t heard of Kobe Bryant, but he was one of the greatest basketball players of all time. He broke many basketball records during his career and here are some of them:  A record breaker “Bryant hit an incredible 81 points

It’s a little while since that amazing victory by Nadal in the Australian Open to win his 21st Grand Slam reverberated across the world to make him the G.O.A.T (The Greatest of All Time). I have spent some time researching

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

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

“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