Category: Confidence
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Having a ‘Team Me’
Another week and another 40 + miles in the bag :-) getting closer! It has been a great week from a training perspective, managed to get 6 sessions done of varying types and feeling really strong as a result. From an emotional perspective it has been a bit of an up and down week. I have…
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Will it help me get up the mountain?
So what a week – been at home a little more the last week so pushing hard with training – combining strength and endurance work, with running, with walking up Holcombe Hill carrying extra weight and wearing my big boots! J Over 30 miles in the last week and over 110 miles so far in…
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It is really going to happen!
I often used to think that it would be “good to have had an adventure…. sometime…..in the past!” Well, that desire has caught up with me because in just over 6 weeks I am off to climb Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the world outside the Himalayas at just under 7000 metres high! I am…
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What do you want to do when you grow up?
Back in 1974 when I was just 5 years old, I was travelling in our battered old Peugeot 504 (KLH 666 :-)) from Njoro down to the coast at Mombasa for our family holiday! Now, as much as I remember, it was a usual trip, giraffe and elephant on the side of the road as…
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Thank you for being caught speeding!
Earlier in the week I was lucky enough to attend a speed awareness course having being flashed by a speed camera at ‘very early o’clock’ on my way to Piccadilly station a few weeks ago! 35mph in a 30 going through a green light, most people would potentially consider that bad luck, but I say…
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Do you spend more time planning your weekly shop than you do your life?
A couple of weeks ago I finally signed up for a trip to climb Aconcagua – the largest mountain outside of the Himalayas standing just under 7000m above the planes of Argentina. I did so for a number of reasons, but mainly because the mountain creates a chance to push myself out of my comfort…
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4 Leadership Lessons from Zermatt
Sitting on the train on the way back from a great skiing trip to Zermatt with my daughter Alice, brother in-law and nephew George, I was reflecting on what insights and lessons I had learned this week. I am a great believer in the fact that there is always something to learn from your experiences…
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I bet you don’t ask for help very often?
A couple of weeks ago winter finally came to the North West and we had a weekend of snow – well to be precise, an inch of the white stuff fell on Saturday evening, much to the delight of the kids. On the Sunday I took the opportunity of heading out in Lara, my old…
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5 Steps to Improve Your Productivity
My eldest daughter Alice is enjoying the start of that wonderful run of years in education that seems to have exams at every turn, GCSEs this summer coming. She came into my office the other evening in a bit of a flap. “Daddy I seem to have so much to do, I have so many…
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8 Leadership Lessons from Tough Mudder
Last weekend a couple of friends and I completed the North West Tough Mudder event in Malpas Cheshire. To the uninitiated Tough Mudder is, and I quote…. “a team-oriented 10-12 mile obstacle course designed to test physical strength and mental grit. Tough Mudder puts camaraderie over finisher rankings and is not a timed race but…