What is the difference between your purpose and your value proposition? They are often confused as being the same. They are not. Your...

Out walking in the woods with my dog, the topic of silence came to my mind. The crunching of leaves underfoot, the snapping of dead wood,...

Do you take responsibility for your actions, your decisions, your life? I see many people sleepwalking through their lives as they don't...

In the week that I took over the reins of Regional President of the Professional Speaking Association (PSA) in the South East, it seems...

“The beginning is always today.” Mary Shelley Beginnings; the point in time or space at which something begins; a starting point; an...

“Are you in the water waiting to be saved or are you striding purposefully up the bank looking to solve problems?” This is my reflection...

Who are you if not a collection of memories? Your memories matter as your life is a sequence of millions of moments all collated together...

What or who do you see when you look in the mirror? You see what you choose to see just as you make of life what you choose to do or have...

Let it go! It’s that time of year again where I keep hearing the song all around me from the film Frozen. Can you believe it was...

Authenticity; in its simplest form it means original, real or genuine. In its more complex, existential form it means being true to...

Discovery; the action or process of discovering or being discovered. I first wrote a Bucket List back in 2010. Formalising on paper a...

What does the word investment mean to you? Does it conjure up images of pinstripe-suited city bankers shouting loudly on the telephone on...

“What if we studied what was right with people versus what’s wrong with people?” Don Clifton asked this simple question and was...

People often comment on how much I achieve in a day, a week, a month, and ask me if I have an extra day a week to get things done....

Reflection is an important practice as it enables you to observe, listen, feel and relate to the content that is being shared; analysing...

I need your help, please. Who do you know who…? Where would you recommend for…? What is the best kind of…? When is the best time for…?...

This statement is a lie! Ah, but is it really? It is a paradox; a contradiction which may seem absurd however it relays both a truth and...

By now many of you will have heard about what happened to my 16 year old son, Eddie over the weekend. If you didn’t hear, firstly please...

Every day I read, I speak, I listen, I write. Four entirely different yet interlinked skillsets that I constantly seek to hone and...

Going for Growth - a story of a seed! Five years ago today, on 30th September 2016, I planted a seed and watched it grow. With that seed...

“So, what do you do?” I wince. I falter. My hackles instinctively go up. I stop, shift a little on my feet, smile and politely give my...

Same school, same year, different trajectories. In 2019, two 16 year old girls sat next to one another in their GCSE Biology class. They...

On Monday I was asked to share on Derek Arden’s Web Chat Show Live what I had learned over the summer. Initially I thought I wouldn’t...

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist What does it take to...