Gandhi once said, “Be the change you want to see in the world”. Such wisdom in so few words. 

Very often I will receive messages saying something like this, “I am worried that this person who I love is drinking too much, what can I do?” 

My response is always the same, if possible, “Take ...

We are wanting, ambitious creatures. This is inherent in our DNA. It was our ancestors' drive for better that has gifted us so much in the present. 

Equally, we have so much, so why can’t we just settle and be happy with what we’ve got?

The answer is that we should be incredibly grateful for all...

Studying successful people is easy because there are so many of them. But finding people who are successful in a traditional sense and also more importantly who are genuinely happy, healthy and vibrant - is not so easy.

For the last 10 years, I have taken the difficult path to study these happy, ...

The traditional success model looks like this: 

[Work hard] + [achieve some stuff] = [Ta-daaaaaa you become magically happy]

How’s that going for everyone?

Not that well by the looks of it.

Scientifically we see study after study confirming the trend that generally most people fee...

We lose so much time and energy vilifying our bad habits. We try to stop them, by hitting ourselves with the naughty stick. But it doesn’t work. 

So we repeat the process, by “ really” telling ourselves off, and still, nothing changes. 

Bad habits don’t need telling off they need replacing

10 y...

Everything went dark. 

He could not see a thing. The murky water, the arms, the legs of other competitors were everywhere. He could barely breathe, and still, he could not see, when he lifted his head he got hit or splashed by the stroke of a competitor, it was chaos. 

This was my friend’s first...

*This blog is an extract from today's post to the June Office-Athletes who are training with me currently.

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Once your goals are written down they come to life. 

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Why not drinking alcohol during lockdown is transforming careers, bodies and relationships!

At first, lockdown triggered a booze-fest. 

The extra stress of juggling working from home, schooling the kids,  the freedom from long commutes, more time, loneliness, boredom, and overwhelm combined t...