At this time of the year, it’s not unusual for people to be setting both business and personal goals and working out what good looks like…

In my twenties and thirties, I experienced a constant wrestling match between wanting to live by the sea and building a sports marketing career…

    Purpose is a much used word at the moment. We know that on some level it is important, but what does it really mean and how do…

“Are you doing your best?” asked double Olympic gold medallist James Cracknell  of TV presenter Ben Fogle, in the early stages…

  Every senior person in an entrepreneurial business that I’ve ever coached has shared the problem of having too much to do. And …

The topic of overwhelm and how to manage ourselves through it is both rich and complex. The complexity lies in overwhelm being a double agent…

Entrepreneurs tend to be excellent do-ers. There will have been a time in their journey when they will have been the person who did everything…

Why stepping out of the box is a win-win-win 40 years of financial and individual deregulation has not worked in the Western World.  Life…

I apologise for the long delay since the last letter, I found it hard to write for much of last year. I felt like I needed some distance from…

A bubble within a bubble is how a friend described it when they heard that my mother had died at the start of lockdown. Mum, who had been living…

If you are facing a set of failed New Year’s resolutions, you are not alone. Around 40% of resolutions are dropped after a month, and …

I find this very hard to write. A friend committed suicide three weeks ago. All the communities that he was part of are reeling, trying to make…

Why You Need Your Own Pacemaker I sat opposite a challenging man at lunch last week. He declared that he did not have a job, and did not understand…

Roosevelt said early in the 20th Century, “comparison is the thief of joy”. He had no idea that 100 years later it was going to …

4 Ways to Learn How to Work Effectively I was with a client yesterday when he announced that he had never learned how to work, right in the …

One night of less than five hours sleep or two nights of less than seven hours sleep. What do these have in common? They both lead to sleep …