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I wrote this after a poor customer service experience with the company I pay to service my heating boiler. The so-called service took place yesterday, March 12^th. The company clearly has serious…

The ones that make you feel good about yourself. The ones that keep you on the right side of your conscience. The ones that might involve you stepping out of your comfort…

After a period of ill health, it is time to ease myself back to work. Part time until or unless I can prove to myself I am capable of more. It has been a…

Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am a positive and focused person. Somebody with good self-discipline, and have been my whole adult life.

Like everything, there’s a reason or a…

Do you remember that period in your life when you were physically small and looked up at adults? That period in your life when you were half the height of an adult…

These are personal reflections. The pieces of jigsaw that came together for me and it is important to emphasise the mundanity of it. Nothing extraordinary, just time, effort, study and focus. 

To help…

Key performance indicators are not confined to a business setting. It’s a model we can all use in everyday life to help us understand our situation at any given moment.

Spending more than…

I used to work with a chap who loved proverbs and he would wander around the office on a daily basis sharing these little nuggets of ancient wisdom.

It’s what we are scared…

If you want to come into my home, I say what goes, I say what is acceptable and what isn’t. I set the rules. Is that unreasonable?

What about businesses and organisations of…

Like him or loathe him, putting to one side your political standpoint, Boris Johnson is certain to be a figure of historical importance. It is easy to imagine discussion and debate in the classrooms…

My guess is that anyone who has done this kind of work for long enough would agree that these situations pretty much always start the same way:

- The personal development of individuals…

Sometime ago I read a fascinating and beautifully written blog on the subject of loneliness…and it got me thinking.   

Given the right or ‘wrong’ circumstances, within each of us is a void.…

Recently I finished the mentoring contract I blogged about in March this year, helping people to set up in business. Helping them to critique their own idea, to deconstruct it and reconstruct it…

I cannot remember how old I was. I think I was 19 or 20 when I applied to join the Fire Service at Chester where I grew up. I passed the entrance…

March 2021, the anniversary of lockdown. The year we were told by our elected government to stay at home. What an astonishing thought.

At 57 years of age I consider this to be…

You keep going until the good news comes. You keep moving in the direction you choose. The setbacks will come, count on them. Get yourself organised, get your ducks in a row.…

When first diagnosed, one of the things I did was to look for support groups and I found one in Liverpool. It was run by a different charity but held at The…

As we come out the Covid pandemic, many people will need help. Many people will need the reassurance that everything they want from life is still there for them and can still…

Interesting articles appearing today at the BBC and across the broadsheet press:

“New jobs coaches will help people back to work. The Jets scheme will help those laid off during pandemic, chancellor to…

From the moment of diagnosis you enter a different place. Exactly like that movie where the actor pushes their hand through what looks like the wall of a blurred bubble and having…

By any measure Rafa Benitez is a hugely successful human being. Currently he manages a professional football club in China. 

This after significant success in every country he has managed a football club.…

Is there a more important life lesson than this?

Jessica Gallier was 26 years of age and had recently become a mother when she received news of the death of her father. He…

The last paragraph of the last page. Jack Kerouac wrote this classic book to say this one line. You can feel it when you read it. You can feel the build up…