For those of you who are familiar with my sworn allegiance to Liverpool football club, you may be shocked and surprised by what you are about to read… Tomorrow evening, Manchester City are taking on Inter Milan in the final of the Champions’ League. If they win, they will become only the second English club …
As I wrote three weeks ago, you can learn a lot from TV dramas. One of our favourites in recent years has been Unforgotten. Without going into background details, (and don’t worry, no spoilers here!) if you have never seen it, I thoroughly recommend starting with Season 1 and going from there. In the latest season, …
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This week, I have been working with my client, a micro-finance bank called Noa. I heard about the lashing, almost horizontal rain in the UK, from my wife, when we spoke on the telephone on Wednesday night but it wasn’t until yesterday that I read in the newspaper that the storm was called Noa. How strange …
From time to time, I return to the subject of football, or at least with lessons from football. This week, I am going to share five things I have learned from observing Jurgen Klopp, the manager of Liverpool football club since 2015. Lesson #1: Be your normal (authentic) self at all times Jurgen famously labelled himself …
How many times have you embarked on something only to think, “Oh no… this is harder than I expected.”In our lovely, quirky Victorian home, everything seems to take longer and throw up more problems than we were anticipating. When the “simple” task of stripping and painting the walls throws up shot plaster, decades of paint …
Yes, I know, I must’ve been so bad for my own wife to fire me, right? Thankfully, it wasn’t for my ‘expert coaching’ I offer to give her when she’s in a tricky situation. No, last weekend, I got fired from painting. I like to think of myself as a creative kind of person. I …
I think all men love chopping logs, even those who think they don’t. I realise that these days, that statement alone, could get me into all sorts of trouble. There is something inherently masculine about chopping logs but for me, the primary benefit comes down to one word… Focus If I’m not fully focused on …
I’ve written before about my days as a 40,000 miles a year salesman and how noticing those who were obviously setting off on a Sunday afternoon helped inspire me to help others do all in their power to create and sustain a healthy work/life rythme. This time I’m reminded of some of the lessons I …
The opposite of play is…not work. The opposite of play is depression, according to researcher Stuart Brown, MD. You can check out a two and a half minute summary of his Ted Talk Play is More Than Just Fun here below for some interesting insights Here in the UK, from the 1960s onwards, a certain chocolate …
I know this is the second week in a row where I could be fairly accused of name-dropping but as the title suggests, I could have made a great deal more of this occasion. At the time, I was living in Camden Town, already well established as quite possibly, the coolest place anywhere in London …
So yes, you read that headline correctly. Many moons ago, in my first ever job in the world of television production, I found myself interviewing a former British Prime Minister about the Prince of Wales at the time – now our new King Charles III. I had secured a short term contract as the Picture …
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As this year draws to a close and the New Year is soon to dawn, many people will be reflecting back on what they achieved, who they met, where they travelled perhaps? Others will be thankful for how they survived horrific circumstances. We remember all those caught up in war in Ukraine, for example. The …
