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Can you do what you love?

Can you do what you love?

"Do what you love" The kind of internet meme that can drive working folk mad, their response often being: "I can't do what I love, I have to do work I have to do to get paid". Well, this week I flew overseas to support a client with an annual leadership team meeting....

Purpose, your inner rocket fuel

Purpose, your inner rocket fuel

This week I left home one day at 1pm for a truly intense day and a half of client work, yet when I got home late the next evening I felt great at all levels. The secret?  Yes, I make sure I look after myself physically (sleep, exercise, nutrition etc), I am a...

Create Serendipity

Create Serendipity

Are you or your business lucky ? do you benefit or suffer from coincidences? I don't believe in luck, I believe in serendipity. Serendipity is not luck, it is not coincidence. Serendipity is something you can choose to create for yourself and in the way you lead and...

Leadership – The impact of beautiful art

Leadership – The impact of beautiful art

"We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for." ~ David Foster Wallace Early morning, awake and reading a lovely book by Matt Haig called "The Humans". As I read, I am stopped and mesmerised by this beautiful quote in the book from David Foster...

Ikigai and Bacon Rolls

Ikigai and Bacon Rolls

In the middle of October last year I went for my last bike ride of the season around Richmond Park and after that, I was inspired to write about Ikigai and Bacon rolls. I'm going to simply repeat the core of that post below. Please scroll down and read that first,...

Ben Hogan: Deliberate Practice

Ben Hogan: Deliberate Practice

The summer I was 15, the weather in the Scottish Borders was beautiful (so my memory tells me!). That year I got the "bug" to play golf. Junior membership was almost free and I rode my bike to the club with an old "half set" of clubs and spent all day there most of...