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  Recently I bumped into David in the supermarket carpark. I was working on the finishing touches of dinner for my kids and he was finishing up a phone call. We hadn’t caught up for nearly three years and in just a few minutes time we covered work, life and family. What I found interesting was his general disdain for the work he was … [Read more...]

  Last week I introduced the Peace Index from my friends at GiANT Worldwide - I have taken on this experience for scaling leadership in life, in teams and organisations. I’m really enjoying the leverage that is coming from this High Tech/High Touch experience and believe that when added to my own IP there is a way to grow and become a … [Read more...]

  “I don’t dance!” said Andrew in my meeting with him recently.   “It’s not really my thing either,” I responded. In my head I thought how you can’t unsee me dancing too, it’s just not fair on others.   “No,” said Andrew more emphatically, I don’t do the dance, the surface, show off, tell me what I want to hear stuff … [Read more...]

  “Wouldn’t it be great if failures did seminars.” said Jim Rohn. Not in some macabre way but in a way that we could ALL realise the mistakes that many of us make and we could help one another avoid them earlier.   Rohn goes on to say that when it comes to life and leadership, it’s easy NOT to.   It’s easy not to … [Read more...]

  There are three very specific elements to making direction decisions. Get these right and the quality and conviction of your decisions will 10x in a very short space of time. I wrote about the importance of paying attention to direction and I talked more contextually about the idea of direction. In summary I wrote:   Everyone … [Read more...]

I raced down the stairs with seconds to go before the train left the station and slipped theatrically into the carriage as the doors closed in slow motion behind me. Feeling pretty proud, I sat down and immersed myself into reading and waited for my station to arrive. 35 minutes into the trip I overheard the station announcement and leapt to my … [Read more...]

  “You can do more in ten years than you think you can and less in one year than you think you can.” ~ Rick Warren   As I pen these updates I have thoughts that we have less than ninety days to go in this decade. Edging closer and closer each day where we won’t just be celebrating the transition into a new year but also into a … [Read more...]

In March this year I committed to publishing 100 videos in 100 days as part of being present in, and adding value to the market I am working on now.   I accomplished it. I worked hard, and I was diligent to be certain I put something up that I believed in and that would help people in life and leadership. More specifically in helping … [Read more...]

  I was adamant that we would only be doing Little Shops, 2 this time around. I told my kids that, I repeated it. I extolled the virtue of how unnecessary it was to be doing Little Shops and Ooshies….   I lost.   Big time.   In some form of justification, we’re buying groceries in any case, right? And … [Read more...]

  In a recent conversation with a very competent client she mentioned her time off and what a joy it was, only to follow it up with “It was a bit selfish….”   No it wasn’t. It was really really really smart.   Self care is NOT selfish. And on the whole I’m questioning how good we are at … [Read more...]

  You have to collect the dots before you connect the dots.   Miles Adcox said this on an IG Story I watched recently. He was talking about it in the context of mental health and living a healthy narrative of your future. As I understand it, Miles was making the point that we make sense of our place and purpose in the context of … [Read more...]

  I entered my fiftieth lap round the sun last week. Even now it doesn’t seem quite real that, “that number” will come up in less than 365 days. It seems so far away from when I was thirty-five and I sat down and thought long and hard about what my life was going to count for at forty-five. That’s now both history in the sense of my age, … [Read more...]