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Show Some Class

This week has been very productive and enjoyable – the highlight being the Masterclass I ran for the staff of a fast-growing organisation called Radius Payments. This is the third time I have run the Masterclass for them on behalf

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Persistence – the Key to Success!

This week I was delighted to deliver my Mental Resilience Keynote Masterclass to the sales staff of Champions UK Plc who are one of the UK’s leading digital and brand communications agencies. They are a fast-growing family run business working

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45 LIFE LESSONS FROM A 90 YEAR OLD

It has recently occurred to me now much I enjoy executive coaching. It gives me such great pleasure to work with clients and to gently guide them to whatever outcomes they want from the sessions. Each client is unique, and

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How Well Do You Listen??

What a fun week this has been where I have personally given out 66 signed books to Rolls Royce staff following the Masterclass I ran for them earlier in the month. It was great to shake their hands and hear

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Potatoes, Eggs, and Coffee Beans

This has been a busy week with some coaching sessions, a briefing call to a large international organisation for an upcoming Masterclass in London. A trip to London to meet with the senior partners of the largest litigation lawyers in

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A Glass of Milk

We can make a difference It’s not about how much money we have or what we own, but what we do with what we have and how many people we can help along the way. If we can make a

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Research on Positivity Surprises Scientists

Yesterday I received an email from Simon Waterfield a partner at Nelsons Solicitors in Nottingham who highlighted details of recent research on the impact of a Positive Mindset which he thought I would find of interest – he was right.

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Happy New Year!

One of my favourite inspirational stories from 2018 is the Elephant and the rope story which describes an Elephant which believes that it cannot break free from a thin rope because it was conditioned to believe it couldn’t when it

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Dream it, Believe it, Speak it.

What a year this has been – it has been an amazing rollercoaster of emotions from start to finish and very exciting to experience the many new clients and adventures I have had. I remember the exciting trip to San

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Don’t Chase Happiness

It has been a great week to finish 2018 with some fabulous coaching sessions and a wonderful Masterclass for the PDW group. What a great company this is, and I am so pleased to be working with them. The Mental

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The Magic of Marketing

What a fabulous week this has been following on from two great weeks! The highlights have to be the Masterclass I ran in Penrith and the Keynote talk I delivered at an AGM at the fabulous Barnsdale Hall Hotel in

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Laser Like Focus

It has been a busy and productive week the highlight being two Mental Resilience Masterclasses delivered to Radius Payments in Crewe on behalf of Live and Learn. They are a huge organisation who have a presence in 29 countries across

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Get Up and Try Again

I can’t believe that it’s the first of December already – where had the year gone? Time goes so quickly and each day which goes by can’t be relived, it’s gone forever. It’s important to live each day as if

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You Can if you Think you Can

What an amazing week this has been – it has to be the best week I have had since I started my business 9 years ago. My wife Julie has been sending out emails to firms of solicitors and she

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Are You a Giant Killer?

What a cracking week I have just had culminating in a great day in Southampton running my Masterclass for a group of Managing Directors in a fabulous hotel. The interaction was wonderful and the energy in the room was palpable.

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Your Today is Connected to Your Tomorrow

It has been a great week this week following up leads and preparing for an exciting booking next week in Southampton. I came across this article which intrigued me. Preparation for your future “What you are doing right now might

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We Can’t Guarantee Our Future

Life is fragile and this week’s shocking helicopter crash which killed the owner of Leicester City FC brings this into horrific reality. Sky News reporter Rob Dorsett was there, and he wrote this summary of events: Rob Dorsett Sky News

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Change How You THINK, SPEAK and ACT

What a wonderful week this has been with a really great Masterclass for Wolverine Worldwide in London, a keynote talk at the Staffordshire Chamber of Commerce Business Festival and presenting an award at the fabulous Nottingham Sports Awards. This is

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Face Your Storm

It has been another busy and productive week coaching a new client over the phone, a great meeting with Michael who I am working with to develop some online products, a couple of great bookings and a telephone conversation with

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Smell the Flowers

What a great week again this week – the highlight being the Masterclass I ran on behalf of Live and Learn for Barts Charity in London and a coaching session in Rotherham. What a wonderful organisation Barts is! This is

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Think Happy and You Will be Happy

This has been a wonderful week with a fabulous trip to Tunbridge Wells to deliver my Mental Resilience Masterclass on behalf of Live and Learn. This is the third time I have been booked by Tunbridge Wells Council to inspire

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Your Failures can Lead to Your Success

What an amazing time I had on Thursday at the Builders Merchants Federation Conference held at the St George’s Park in Burton – the national football centre for the FA. This is a stunning venue and I had the privilege

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The Power of Self-Control

I remember a time when I worked for Metro Radio in the North East of England around 35 years ago and I was fired up. Work was coming in and I was working well. I had been focussing on a

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