Category: Vision
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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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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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3 Things over Christmas to set yourself up for 2016
Welcome to the last blog of the year and what a year it has been – tempus fugit ……… and some! It has been an interesting and challenging year in so many different ways, but one in which I have gone to work on myself and made massive progress. I am looking forward to a…
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5 Lessons for Life and Business
A year ago yesterday my Dad passed away from a huge and sudden stroke. It was a shock then and remains a stark and absolute reminder that even the strongest, invincible, seemingly unstoppable comes to an end. This is as true for people as it is for products, services and customers. It has been a…
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How to ensure a merger or acquisition succeeds
I was watching an old series of the David Attenborough show “Life” and there was a very interesting piece on baboons in Ethiopia that caught my attention for a number of reasons, not least because it parallels very well the spike in Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) we have recently been seeing. The action followed one…
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How to Unicycle your way to success in business and life!
[twitter name=\”name\”] [retweet] Picture the scene, it is a blustery day on the streets of Horwich (near Bolton for the uninitiated), the crowds are lining the streets in there……well……. 10’s and the 3rd National Unicycle Race is about to get under way! At the start are an eclectic crew with ages ranging from 14 to…
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Wisdom for your 21 Year Old Self
I was lucky enough to be working with a hugely talented and inspirational group of young farmers last week as part of the Tesco Future Farmer Foundation. This is an amazing initiative by Tesco to give something back to the farming community, investing in the future of farming, and to an extent, the future of…
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Slide out and onto the slope
Very fortunately I have just returned from a week’s skiing in Switzerland, with my eldest daughter Alice, my nephew and my brother-in-law. I say fortunately for two reasons :-) 1. We all returned without injury and 2. We were very lucky to be able to have the time, health and finances to go. Now, I am no…
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Destination or Journey?
I was recently stimulated by an interesting and insightful article by a blogger called James Clear, it was entitled ‘If You Completely Ignored Your Goals and Focused on This One Thing Would You Get Better Results?’ It is worth a read and it got me thinking. I have always been a big advocate that there…
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Business Lessons Learned from Lambing
We all have our passions – what is yours? What is it that brings a smile, creates energy, momentum and a drive to overcome obstacles? For me it is Ferguson Farm and my alter ego Farmer Ferguson; I expect that we all share the same challenge – finding the time, space and opportunity to indulge…