John's Blog

The Lumberjack Story It was the annual lumberjack competition and the final was between an older experienced lumberjack and a younger, stronger lumberjack. The rule of the competition was quite simply who could fell the most trees in a day was

Last week was a nice busy one with coaching in London, working on my book, new wardrobes and carpet delivered (now a married man of course and these things are a nice part of marriage). I was also contact via

A dream I had many years ago to write a book is finally coming to fruition. After a very good meeting with the event manager of Waterstones Nottingham, they have agreed to provide me with a full launch of my

What a run up to our wedding – it was busy busy busy and there were times when it got a little challenging but everything worked out perfectly on the day and on our honeymoon. I have worked out that

Wow I can’t believe the 18th months have gone by so quickly since I asked Julie to marry me and she said yes! It has been a wonderful journey and we have arrived at the day of destiny where our

You won’t be surprised that this week has been as busy as ever if not even busier. Next Saturday I get married to my fiancée Julie and the time is flying by! As well as the wedding arrangements, I am

Wow only two weeks to go before I marry my fiancée Julie and the time is rushing by. We have most things organised and I am managing to keep focused on my work with a maximum of 15% of my

A nice busy week again this week with a new coaching client, a good meeting at Biocity Nottingham, a great group in Manchester for my Mental Resilience workshop and some really impactful coaching in Rotherham. I am motivated by what

I’ve had a lot of fun this week working on my book, spending time improving my Mental Resilience workshop, working on a presentation to a new client and my fun trip to London to coach my client. After I had

I’ve had another busy and fun week culminating in a really excellent training day in Leicester. On Wednesday I spoke at a Rotary Club in Derby and I still get the same enjoyment from presenting my Mental Resilience presentation to

As I write this I am sitting in a beautiful hotel in the middle of the Derbyshire Peak District in a quiet lounge all by myself enjoying a lovely pot of tea and lemon drizzle cake. This is on the

This week has been an interesting one with my coaching session in London, meeting my client in Buxton and attending a networking event in Nottingham. Sounds like a normal week the only difference is that I finally succumbed to a

This week has been another fun week coaching regular clients and running a Mental Resilience workshop for a leading European manufacturing company based in Cheshire. They had booked a very nice venue to hold the workshop for 26 of their

I’ve had a fun week, coaching in London, a great meeting with a new client, catching up on a lot of admin, a meeting about some Mental Resilience workshops I’m putting on in April, May and June, and a really

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