Alone and Lonely – two words that regularly get used interchangeably. How wrong is that? They are two very different things, very different feelings, very different mental outlooks. The choice is to know which one is relevant and which is correct for you at any particular time. Alone or Lonely? Consider the situation where you are sitting in a bar writing a newsletter, reading a book or simply catching up on the world around you…

In the world of Superman kryptonite was his poison – all that strength and power and those super hero skills disappeared with the addition of just one ingredient. What’s your poison, that one thing that does it for you? What’s your poison? Everyone has something that gets under their skin and changes their focus, hunger or sends them off on a tangent. When you are at the bar and someone says, “what’s your poison?” they…

Everyone has a name for them – you’ve probably heard me refer to them as Mood Hoovers, there are so many other names for them – Black Holes – Drains – Energy Vampires – what honestly are the main traits of these people and why do they do it? Having read this introduction, you have just visualised someone in your life, that’s how powerful they are! Reading time approximately 3 mins. Negatively Speaking! What are…

One of the best bits of advice I’ve ever been given is to control the controllables and let the ‘other stuff’ go! Why then do we not take this advice? It’s so simple and easy to understand but we fight it, challenge and freak out when something changes outside of our control. Time to let things go! Going through our journey of life we have stages where we are more malleable and adaptable to things…

“What gets measured gets done” is a quote attributed to many people over the years. Clearly just measuring something doesn’t ensure action will take place and of course the other side of the question must be what should you measure? Not measuring anything by contrast could mean anything or nothing goes on. What are you missing, what preventative challenges or metrics are not visible to you now? For many years in businesses across the globe…

What does a Bank Holiday mean to you? An extra day off work? Chores, chores and more chores that you have been putting off for months but now there is no escaping it? Or time for you to reboot and rebuild? Whatever a Bank Holiday means to you there aren’t many of them so why would so many of us choose to waste them? Around the world every country has various numbers of Bank Holidays….

At the beginning of every day there is a commute, a routine that we go through before we start the day – before we start at work, at school, at leisure or at play. Everything we do before we start is therefore in essence part of your commute, the preparation before action. How well do you manage your commute to action? I would love to say I have the best commute in the world. I…

When I asked delegates on a recent course to introduce themselves to me as if we were meeting for the first time at an event or seminar, each one inadvertently sold at me straight away. I got the history of their business or their time with the company followed by a long shopping list of all the amazing things they did in the company. Then as an afterthought came the line, “and who are you…

My coaching work has taken me into the world of mental health and wellbeing and is showing me more sides of this world than I was expecting. From the sporting hero transitioning into a new career, through to the family man and teenager, too much is left unsaid and unanswered because the question is never asked. In previous articles and blogs I have written about what I believe to be one of the greatest cumulative…