Woman: Eeugh! You stink of garlic Man: that’s usually what happens when you eat pieces of garlic Woman: (looking shocked) you ate it? You’re not supposed to eat it. You pick it out and leave it. Man: why did you put it in then? Woman: for the flavour Man: Oh, I see. Woman shakes her [...]
I’ve just had the most amazing call with my business mentor, Simon Chaplin (www.SocksUpSimon.com) – but then every call with him is like that at some level. I don’t know about you, but now that the Olympics and my holidays are over, I’ve been feeling a little bit lost: directionless, unmotivated, wondering if I’m going [...]
As the London 2012 Olympics draws to an end, Team GB have won more Gold Medals than at any other Olympics for over 100 years. There was great jubilation, and also the occasional disappointment, amongst all the athletes going for gold for Team GB. There were tears of happiness, of finally seeing a dream come [...]
So it’s the Jubilee celebrations in the UK this weekend. The nation staged one of its biggest displays of royal pomp and ceremony, and as with other such events in the past, it was all carried out with great precision. I looked up the word Jubilee and its meaning and this is what I found: [...]
It's a glorious day! The temperature is 22 centigrade and I'm sitting in my garden writing this. Summer has finally arrived for most of us. I spent this morning with Vinay Parmar, my friend and co-conspirator in creating a great life. We sat outside a Costa, plotted our next life enhancement strategies [...]
Today, I was asked the question, ‘does it really work?’ in relation to a strategy I use in my business to attract the right kinds of clients for me. This led me to think about achieving results. We usually start out with the best of intentions when we ‘decide’ to do something. We make a [...]
Back home after an amazing two and a half days on the crew team for Joanna Martin's Presentation Secrets seminars. It was a powerful learning environment, seeing things from the 'other' side and I've brought back loads of ideas to implement into my own events. They were long days (7am - 9pm) for the crew with only 3 [...]
These last few days have been ‘odd’ for me. I realised that I was grieving, but couldn’t think of why I was doing that. There had been no deaths in my circle of friends and family and yet, there was a sense of loss in me. It took a while for me to realise what [...]
We have emotional peaks and emotional troughs. It is a natural part of living that we experience these highs and lows. I don't know about you but I have often found myself to be consumed by the feelings I experience during the lows of life. So much so that nothing else seems to exist , or [...]
This last 2 weeks saw the outpouring of Grief in two very different contexts. The first involved an unexplained coach crash in a road tunnel in the Swiss Alps; twenty eight people died, with twenty two of them being children returning home from a school trip. This obviously caused huge pain and suffering for those closely involved [...]