Its Wednesday morning at The Bush Hotel in Farnham, Surrey and the temperature is in the 90’s – there is no air conditioning in my hotel room and I arrived here last night to find a party going on in the main lounge. I’m not sure whether it was a wedding or an office celebration.
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It’s 3.30am on Sunday morning in London and I’m back from my 10-days in Canada and unable to sleep. The good news (?) is that I have been awake since midnight and cleared the emails from last week – that’s a big tick on the professional “to do” list and I have mentally agreed with
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Its been a predictably exhausting three days and I’m blogging at 2.00pm local time as the coaches spend some time individually creating their goals and actions for the next 90 days. Reviewing the mind map of objectives that we began with on Thursday I think I can allow myself a pat on the back for
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Three days working with 10 coaches at The Grand Hotel and the first day flew by. We began by creating a mind map to answer the question “where do you want to be by 5.00pm on Saturday?”. The I updated the group on my own business progress since we last met. In the afternoon we
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Wednesday morning at Heathrow, waiting to catch a flight to Toronto, where I will be facilitating a mastermind group meeting of coaches for 3 days. They were all originally my clients in The Coaching Business School and have now formed their own alumni and meet a couple of times a year. My job will be
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I have a small loan with MBNA bank and the last payment by direct debit was missed because of a mess up with my current account bankers at HSBC. So yesterday my mobile phone rings and its another call centre in the Indian sub-continent. They have been very lucky to catch me. MBNA: “Hello Mr
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I’ve discovered Oliver Sweeney shoes http://www.oliversweeney.com/ Having bought a pair for my workshops a few weeks ago: I have now invested in another pair for casual wear. I am in love with my shoes.
Friday turned out to be one of the most unusual days I have enjoyed in UK dentistry. In the morning I was picked up from the Hilton at Edinburgh Airport and driven over to the new Royal Bank of Scotland head office at Gogarburn. Quite the most inspirational place I have visited for a long
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Bristol workshop today – hard work because the delegates were in “startled rabbit mode” as I describe it. What that means is they are pretty overwhelmed with the radical nature of my presentation and sit there staring at me with eyes wide open as they take in the content. Years ago I used to panic
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Tuesday is scheduled as a call-in day for clients – 15-minute laser coaching calls throughout the working day and a conference call this evening. I am surprised this morning when I check our on-line appointment scheduler to discover that my first call is at 12.15pm and I have the morning free to do other work.
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