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Keep Calm and Keep Going!

This week has been amazingly busy with a huge challenge to co-ordinate talks in Tunbridge Wells, Nottingham and London. On Monday I travelled to Tunbridge Wells to deliver my Mental Resilience Masterclass the following day to staff of the council

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The 5 Key Pillars of Mental Resilience

This week I ran my Masterclass for one of my very favourite clients Rolls Royce. I always look forward to running these for them as they respond so well to the philosophy and techniques of Mental Resilience. This Masterclass includes

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Sugar is as addictive as Cocaine

I’ve been re-reading my book Off the Wall – How to Develop World Class Mental Resilience recently and found the chapter on maintaining good energy an eye-opening refresher. I have summarised the chapter here to share the dangers of eating

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The Parable of the Marbles

It is a bit surreal sat in San Diego writing this blog. This is a result of a two-year journey across the world to get to this point. I first met Kimo Kippen former Vice President Global Talent from Hilton

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What Are You Grateful For?

It took around 18 months from first meeting head of marketing Jo Walchester to finally agreeing to run two x half day Mental Resilience Masterclasses for the staff of Rothera Sharp Solicitors. We met at the Nottingham City Business Club

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Re-frame from Negative to Positive

What a wonderful run of international Masterclasses I have had the pleasure of delivering over the past 7 weeks. A trip to Finland followed by Malta then three more trips to Finland – a total of 5 trips over 7

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Positive Energizers

Helsinki is an interesting city and one I would never have visited without the booking I received to deliver four Mental Resilience Masterclasses to the largest energy supplier in Finland – Fortum. I delivered the third one this week and

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Work Less and Achieve More

It’s been a nice busy week with preparation for an international trip this coming week to deliver my Mental Resilience Masterclass. I was privileged to present to the staff of Rolls Royce in Derby on Tuesday. I also had two

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Change the way you Think, Speak and Act

It is wonderful to be sitting in our hotel in Malta having finished a busy three days of delivering my keynote talk and two Masterclasses to different organisations. Before Julie and I arrived, we weren’t completely sure how things would

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You Can Train a Shark!

It has been an amazing week with a trip to Helsinki Finland to deliver my half day Mental Resilience Masterclass to the staff of a large organisation. This three-day trip to Finland was followed with a keynote talk to the

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Commitment is the Key

This has been an exciting week with a Mental Resilience Masterclass for the staff at North Hertfordshire Homes on behalf of Live and Learn and an assembly at Farnborough Academy for year 11. Both of these were outstanding. The feedback

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True Happiness isn’t all about Money

It has been a productive and busy week with several highlights, the main one being the Mental Resilience Keynote talk to the staff of April King Legal. This was my one-hour version featuring tips and techniques to help develop World

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I Made a Difference to that One!

It has been another exciting week with a couple of events being particularly memorable. The first was a great meeting with Paul King and Jonathan Maskew from April King Legal who have booked me for a Mental Resilience talk next

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We Only Grow When We Face Challenges

It’s been a fun week this week with various booking with clients both speaking, and coaching and I just love the variety of the things I do. I love coaching one to one, running my full day and half day

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Think of Others First

It has been a fabulous week this week travelling to Harrow to deliver my one-hour Mental Resilience talk tailored to students and the pressure of exams. The session was so well received by the sixth form student it took me

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A Very Special Bank Account!

This week has been great fun with a trip to Newcastle to run my Mental Resilience Masterclass for Muckle Solicitors, a coaching session on Wednesday and a further coaching session on Thursday. I just love what I do and when

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This Plant Takes 5 years to Start Growing!

What a great week I’ve had this week. I was In London delivering my Keynote Mental Resilience talk in the Shard Hotel on Tuesday, I delivered my Masterclass to a company in Tunbridge Wells on Thursday and a further Masterclass

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Step on Your Problems!

I have just been reflecting on last week and realise how blessed I am to be doing what I do. I had excellent coaching sessions with two of my clients which were really fulfilling. It is great to see the

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Momentum is the Key!

What a great week it has been with some very welcome positive emails from potential clients requesting my services to speak at certain events. This is really exciting because it means business is coming to me and the momentum is

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What you Say is what you Get

Happy New Year! What a great Christmas break I had with my family and Julie – I trust you had a good one too. It is so important to balance work with leisure and family time. I had time to

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A Christmas Message of Encouragement

What a year this has been and how exciting to have impacted so many people during this year through my keynote talks, Mental Resilience Masterclasses and executive coaching. I am honoured and privileged to be in a position to lift

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