How’s your Focus?

Yesterday morning I went to the Learning Professionals’ Gym, East Anglia’s forum for learning professionals. For those of you outside of the UK, East Anglia refers to Essex, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and probably parts of Hertfordshire. No doubt...

What is success?

  How do you define success? Is it by the amount of money that you have in the bank, the size or quality of your house or car? Could success be defined by the ‘standing’ that you have in your local community, or in your workplace? Is success defined...

Drain or Radiator?

It has been a very exciting last few days for me. I received the first copies of my book ‘Growing Forward’, which is currently available personally fromĀ  me, and will be available online and through other media during the next few weeks. I have just...

My Greatest Fear

I will happily get up and speak for an hour or more in front of two hundred or more people, facilitate a question and answer session and ensure everyone has a great time and takes away something that they can do to make a change in their life. I have found writing a...

The Power of Words

Several times over the past few days I have had cause to reflect on the power of the spoken word. Over last weekend, I was at the Toastmasters International District 71 Spring Odyssey Conference in Windsor, and had the opportunity to listen to a great number of moving...

On the Scrapheap at 54? No way!!

The other day I was out for a few beers with a friend of mine. Last year, he was made redundant by a company that he had worked for since the early 1980’s. He has enough money to live on, but frequently does work that he hates just to get out of the house. He...