We are at last on route to the third Blue Zone location on our Lifelong Journey, our year of travelling to and experiencing the places in the world where people live the longest. We are currently on a ferry sailing between Barcelona and Porto Torres...
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January is coming to an end and I’m feeling good about the fact that I’ve been acting on my new year intention to read more in 2018. My stated goal is to read 25 books this year, and I started #3 today. That said, I’ve...
If, as a coach, I had a magic wand to use on my clients, and even on myself, I would want one which immediately increased self-confidence. Lack of self confidence is an issue that seems to come up time and again both in my own...
I was born in England and raised in a culture where being “proper” was the the socially accepted norm, at least in the circles into which I was born. I have no axe to grind with English culture, but one particular aspect I've since noted...
In coaching I do a lot of work with goal setting and supporting people to achieve them. One of the rules for a goal to be a “good” goal is that it be measurable. In terms of business coaching, a common goal is to hit...
I didn't know much about Yayoi Kusama until I got to learn about her life and work at her exhibition last week, currently running and sold-out almost daily, in Singapore. I learned that we share the same birthday (she’s exactly 40 years older than me),...
I'm writing this 35,000 feet above the Atlantic Ocean, flying from London to Texas, following an aerial path which I guess issn't too far off the nautical course which Titanic took 105 years ago.I've been in the UK for the past 10 days visiting family...
Recently I watched Michael Keaton play the role of Ray Kroc, the founder of the McDonald’s empire, in a film aptly named “The Founder”. Keaton was very believable playing the character, whose name I have known for many years. A bust and tribute to Ray...
In a recent coaching session I was working with an aspiring young entrepreneur hell-bent on making his tech start-up a success. In turn, he believes that he will then have achieved “success” in life, something he feels has largely eluded him so far in his...