After losing a night’s sleep on Monday, I approached “bed time” with some trepidation, knowing that I would fall asleep within minutes as I usually do but wondering whether there would be another early morning vigil. In the event I did wake at about 3.45am but decided I was going to try really hard not
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Out running again this morning – an hour of emails from 5.30am and then off for a 45-minute jog. This morning its cold and frosty in Farnham and I plod along the surrounding country lanes, passed by an endless line of commuters making their way into nearby Guildford or on to London by train. At
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As part of my new year CB makeover, I’ve started serious training again. This morning I woke at 5.30am and took a 40 minute run past Farnham Castle and to the top of Folly Hill. It was dark, windy, wet and cold – absolutley wonderful. I’m thinking like a runner again – and feeling the
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I’ve been a runner, jogger (call it what you will) since 1980, when a client I was talking to as an insurance company rep inspired me by his personal example. From then until 1997 I just ran for pleasure and to find a place in a busy life where I could think, oxygenate and “straighten
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About a week ago I twanged my back – so badly that I have been suffering ever since. That’s the first real back problem I have experienced for about 3 years, although the condition started in 1987 as a result of a long country walk, carrying one young son on my front and another on
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I am working with a personal branding coach at the moment – exercising my intellect on Chris Barrow as a brand and how that would look – or whether the brand should be the schools. Please don’t give me your feedback – I’m confused enough! However, the process has created some good conversations and the
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I need to stop smoking (again!). My resting heart rate has increased from 47 (where its been for 20 years) to 68. I can feel my blood pressure rising (not just because I’m self-employed and work for a lunatic). I look crap and tired. Its week one of the workshops and I’m already exhausted. I’m
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Waking at 4.30am is a good indicator that you have a little too much on your plate. That’s what happened to me (again) this morning and it seems to come around about every three months or so. At my age I quite often wake in the night (too much information) and try to avoid thinking
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During an email coaching exchange with a client there came this moment of self-realisation yesterday. That for the first 50 years of my life I was constantly searching for answers. And that in the last 2 years I have changed. Now I’m just trying to figure out which are the right questions It’s proving far
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You know how sometimes you start a day’s work and just cannot get “into it”? There is stuff on your mind that gets in the way. You are too tired or too pre-occupied with “other stuff” to be able to give your best? It happened to me yesterday. After about three hours sat at my
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