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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

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.