It’s important to understand the difference between achievements and habits when you are goal-setting. An achievement is a specific target, usually involving numbers and deadlines: I will hit a sales target of X by Y date; I will launch product/service X by Y date; I will create X video testimonials by Y date. A habit
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Today is the last day at work for my trusted business manager Phillippa Goodwin. Don’t panic! She’s off to walk the Camino Trail in Northern Spain for the next 6 weeks – no doubt a life-changing sabbatical (I just hope that she she returns it’s not to tell me that life as my wing-man is
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A characteristic I notice frequently as I listen to clients is “imposter syndrome”, so called because there are times when we don’t feel worthy enough to carry the responsibilities of leadership. Imposter syndrome happens when we compare our inside to other people’s outside. Always a mistake. One of the benefits of being a coach is
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Newcastle this morning and temperatures of -5 and a few inches of snow as the city slowly wakes. This evening I’m booked to meet with The Campbell Academy Peer Review to facilitate a conversation around the subject of “Winter is Coming” (a SWOT analysis of UK dentistry) – little did I know how prophetic the
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Chris Barrow has seen me at my best. And probably my very worst. Specifically, when we were halfway up the frozen scree slope of Mount Kilimanjaro, around 3am on a cold August morning in 2011. Chris, his wife Annie, myself and 22 others were on a fundraising climb for Bridge2Aid, the dental health charity I
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Up at 05:00 this morning and back into my weekday routine for the first time since Friday 23rd December (which feels like 3 months ago and not 2.5 weeks). In spite of the fact that my body is still in recovery mode, I managed a 5k jog around Regents Park with only the company of
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After yesterday’s demanding Portsmouth Marathon (black ice, running on beaches, rain, mud) I decided to spend an extra hour in bed this morning and break with my 05:00 routine – that’s the best bit of being a perfect imperfectionist. Another bit of self-indulgence was a cab ride from Portsmouth back to Southampton Airport yesterday afternoon
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Friday morning at the Hilton Gatwick and I’ll shortly be catching the Express into Central London for my last client meeting of the week with the simply delightful Imran Sayed and Dahlia Sunba, owners of Chelsea and Fulham Dentist. If I may say so, they are the archetype young married dental couple who are simultaneously
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I flew Aer Lingus from Manchester to Dublin yesterday (actually, one of those little aircraft that is really operated by Stobart). The two stewardesses did a great job of looking after us – I was sat on Row 1 and my “senior” stewardess was very good humoured – she was telling a fellow passenger that
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This question came in last night from a Practice Manager: Its staff appraisals time, my Principal wonders if you have a different approach or any ideas on this? So, on reading this, I smiled to myself at the memory of conversations in the 90’s that formed my thinking. Technology changes – people don’t change much. You
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