Here I am, involved in some deeply serious coaching with Tim Thackrah and Birgitta Henrikson. Sharon was there as well – but happy to be excluded from the photograph because she had a cold and hadn’t washed her hair that morning. For the last three years, Tim has been the only client I have worked
Read More
Accident 1 I discovered on Sunday afternoon that the human body is not designed to head-butt inanimate objects. In my case, the immovable object with which I shared my irresistible force was a garage wall. My weekend was consumed by a house move, the second in 15 months, and once again I was astonished by
Read More
Story 1: It’s Friday afternoon and I’m sat in my car on the drive of the family home, with my two daughters in the back seats, having just picked them up from school. The rain is pouring down outside – torrential Manchester rain in the dark of an autumnal afternoon – aided by gale-force winds
Read More
I recall my amazement at the remains of covered market stalls close to the Forum in Ancient Rome – and again in the Greek city of Corinth. This morning I happened to walk through Altrincham and past the market hall, which stands on the site of a market that was granted a Royal Charter in
Read More
Sandra has been the conference receptionist at the Hilton Manchester Airport for 19 years. When I ran my first ever financial planning seminar in 1987 she was there. When I ran the marketing workshop for The Dental Business School yesterday she was there. In those 19 years she has been the epitomy of “no problem,
Read More
Monday was cool – writing my ezine first thing (with a change of style after feedback) and then completing two further writing projects: Copy for some specialist ortho events we are planning in the Spring and Copy for webinars I will be presenting in December and February I rather enjoy writing to deadlines. After my
Read More
Sharing this photo of my 77-year old Mum, Norma Barrow. Spent over 2 hours with her yesterday and she was chuffed to bits. So sad that she was crying when I left — just because she is so lonely — waved me out the door so as not to be embarrassed by herself. Just puts
Read More
Sharing this photo of my 77-year old Mum, Norma Barrow. Spent over 2 hours with her yesterday and she was chuffed to bits. So sad that she was crying when I left — just because she is so lonely — waved me out the door so as not to be embarrassed by herself. Just puts
Read More
Much hilarity in the bar last night as we tried a few of Maurizio’s excellent cocktails and enjoyed having our eyes “read” by Paul, who is a qualified iridologist. It was good to have some chill time and not to talk about values, vision, goals and roles – in fact, to quote my recent suggested
Read More
Sandra left us this afternoon for her vacation – so I just wanted to capture us all for a moment. From your left to right: Jamie Broughton – Footprint Leadership – developing new and emerging leaders Jen Koretsky – ADDmanagement – learning how to manage adult ADD and move forward in life Michel Neray –
Read More