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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
"If information alone changed people's lives, everybody would be skinny, rich and happy!" Les Brown It’s true isn’t it, and we all know it. So why do you constantly seek more information in order to become successful at something? There is nothing wrong with information per se; it’s just not the only important factor in [...]
I was having a conversation today with Sejual Shah (no relation!) who is practitioner and teacher of an Emotional Intelligence technique known as the Emotional Freedom Technique. During our discussion, the question was asked why so many obviously intelligent people struggle with Emotional Intelligence (EQ). The answer lies in the recognition that we have different [...]