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Resentment kills relationships and business.

20th February

Learn to argue while you’re still in love.   Or as my girl says, have the difficult relationship conversations before the cement dries.   Two of my guys have talked to me this week about their relationships with their busi ...
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Did you choose your mood today?

13th February

How often do you think about your thinking?   I use my journal to help me but how and why does this work? Let's take a recent journal entry of mine at random.  In answer to the question, "What am I telling myself this morn ...
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STOP telling me to journal!!!

6th February

I get journaling is a thing in the bits of the internet you flirt with but how does it actually work? THE PROBLEM You think that your thoughts are ‘true’, and that you’re consciously choosing your emotions and making your ...
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What are you worth?

30th January

“When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” This is known as Goodhart’s Law and it captures the truth of one of the biggest traps high achievers fall into. When thinking about personal development, t ...
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2026: Have You Already Lost?

23rd January

You can’t win 2026 in January. Nor can you lose it in January, either. So if we`re not to make a success of 2026 through herculean effort in the first days and weeks of the year, how can we be smarter in ensuring we`re ...
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Does your support match your standards?

16th January

Will this coming Monday, the 19th, be the most depressing day of your year? Known as Blue Monday, the third Monday in January is supposedly 'the most depressing day of the year'.  There's obvious environmental and social f ...
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High-performance lessons from sporting failure.

9th January

I'm a cricket fan.  No, bear with me here... For the uninitiated and in simple terms, England went down to Australia this winter full of hope and expectation in pursuit of sporting immortality (away Ashes series wins are incr ...
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Why "what if you couldn't fail?" is bullshit...

2nd January

Q:  "What would you do in 2026 if you couldn’t fail?" A:  “I’d build a £100m company, write a book, get ripped, travel the world.” Ask a bullshit question, get a bullshit answer... From a psychological POV, “what would ...
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