I think it’s Friday anyway, having reached the stage that when the alarm clock sounds I wake in the dark and cannot remember which hotel room I’m staying in. It’s rather ironic to be staggering out of my room to present a workshop on time management and “work/life balance”! Suppose I have a good excuse,
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Just a quickie to inform you that my Mum passed away peacefully in her sleep last night at the age of 77. Her ambition was to avoid managed care and live out her final days in her own home — apart from the last 3 weeks in hospital, she managed that and will fulfil her
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Just back from a quick 2 days of workshops in Bristol and Bracknell – and I’ve been hearing some horror stories about NHS dental practice that I’ll share in next week’s newsletter – there’s going to be blood on the streets in April.On a more positive note, I keep on saying that I work for
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Just back from a quick 2 days of workshops in Bristol and Bracknell – and I’ve been hearing some horror stories about NHS dental practice that I’ll share in next week’s newsletter – there’s going to be blood on the streets in April. On a more positive note, I keep on saying that I work
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Happiness is on the horizon. Or so it would seem from the numerous self-help manuals that I see when browsing. But a “horizon” is a mental construct that is always the same distance in the future. “I’ll be successful in another 3 years – when I’ve achieved the goals I set myself.” Why keep trying
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I’ve been thinking and writing recently about my “Unique Ability®” which I identified in my last strategic coach workshop as: “To inspire and lead people to recognize and achieve their full potential, through authentic communication” There were 30 people present at the workshop during which we completed the exercise, which involved writing to 20 existing
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What a pleasure it was yesterday to drive over into Devon and meet with new clients who are at the very beginning of their business adventure. A 4-person dental laboratory with a man and wife team in charge, who are entering their 4th year in business. We began with a tour of the lab (which
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Sent to me by my good friend Paul Fox: A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man’s emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then
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Those P&O ferries plough their way back and forth across the English Channel and the North Sea – day after day of relentless repetition which must take its toll on both crew and machinery.So every now and then they are steered into port, where the crew can rest and the machinery can be checked and
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After a quite crazy week of touring (in fact I spent 10 consecutive nights in hotels) the weekend was about recovery – a complete chill out with sleep, nutrition and fresh air high on the agenda. For most of last week I felt as if I had a lead boot in my stomach – due,
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