While listening to a podcast recently, the host used the term ‘sofa-preneur’ to describe people who have brilliant ideas but take no action. This week I am exploring CONFORMITY, a leading reason why these fantastic thoughts never materialise into reality. Conformity is not just our compliance with standards, rules, or laws but our behaviours developed […]

The story goes that the song title Eight Days A Week by The Beatles was inspired by a chauffeur who drove Paul to John’s house. In fact, in the Beatles Anthology book, Sir Paul states: "I usually drove myself there, but the chauffeur drove me out that day and I said, 'How've you been?' – 'Oh, working hard,' he said, […]

I recently watched a brilliant interview with Ben Francis, CEO and Founder of Gymshark. During the conversation, he likened the leadership team at the British fitness brand to the Avengers, describing them as a group of highly skilled individuals, all with their particular strengths. And that when they assemble, not only do these skills complement […]

My last article focused on the challenges we may face as life starts to get back to some level of normality. I experienced this first-hand last week. I had a wobble, not a big one, but enough to knock me off track. Being out on the road attending face-to-face meetings led to me making poor […]

Being fit and healthy is more than just about the numbers. There is more to physical and mental wellbeing than counting calories and weight loss. It is about how you feel. The confidence that builds as your body starts to transform or the increased energy allowing you to complete more tasks. For this reason, I […]

The situation we find ourselves in means a lot of you reading this will have learned to embrace remote working over recent weeks. Finally using the technology that your business invested in years ago to its full potential. Think Skype and Teams, to name a couple, and I really wish I’d bought shares in Zoom […]