I took a day away from clients yesterday, uninterrupted by any phone or Skype/Zoom calls, no meetings with other people, no contact with my support team – complete solitude. After my “morning ritual” of checking social media and overnight email activity, I enjoyed a 15 km training run up to Highgate and across the top
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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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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – leaders lead people and managers manage systems. You cannot lead systems, you can only manage them. You cannot manage people, you can only lead them. So here’s a thing – why do we keep using the term “owner-manager” to describe those folks who run their
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For many of us, this will be the first full day back at work after the Easter break, beginning Q2 of 2018. Over the 4-day weekend I spent a total of 12 hours in The Barrow Bunker, working “back stage” to prepare myself for a very busy 12 weeks ahead. Many other business owners were doing
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Today I’m with the delegates at The Campbell Academy Business Course (talking numbers, marketing and the characteristics of independent practices who will prosper in the next 10 years). Then the train home. We all need a rest this weekend – some time to connect with our family, friends and ourselves. Saturday night heralds the end
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During March I took possession of a Garmin Fenix 5s running watch and have been using the wearable technology and the accompanying iPhone application to measure various fitness monitors. Almost a month’s data has now been recorded and it is revealing some very interesting information. For example, in the last 7 days: average resting heart
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I’ve recently taken possession of the Full Focus Planner system created by personal development coach Michael Hyatt. You can see and read all about it here: https://fullfocusplanner.com This post isn’t an advert for the system – I’m not getting paid any introducer’s fees or commissions. It’s just an indication of the benefits I’m getting personally from
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Today I meet for a full day with my business coach Rachel Turner. It’s a 6-monthly review meeting during which we will be: looking at the progress I’ve made since our 2-day intensive in early October 2017; I’m making more money in less time – result! I’m genuinely happy with the clients, the team and
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At yesterday’s Barcelona Marathon, my running partner, Marcus Spry and I worked a plan. Mindful of our levels of fitness and injury, we decided that to aim at a finishing time of 5hrs 30 minutes was realistic. I ran 04:35 in Florence in November but since then, a knee ligament injury has slowed me down
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There’s a lot of talk in the personal and professional development world about “goals”. Setting goals for the day/week/month/quarter/year is very much the language of coaching. For many of my clients, these goals become something more significant. I like to call them quests. Joseph Campbell’s famous book “The Hero’s Journey” explains how the main characters
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