How often do you find yourself working flat out from the moment you start work until the moment you finish (which is probably later than you anticipated!), yet your ‘to-do’ list hasn’t changed at all? You’ve been working hard—answering emails, jumping between tasks, sitting in back-to-back meetings—but at the end of the day, you don’t feel […]
Balance Like a Boss: How to Thrive at Work and at Life
Let’s be honest—finding a good work-life balance can feel like chasing a unicorn. We’re constantly juggling work deadlines, personal commitments, and that never-ending to-do list. Some days, it feels like there just aren’t enough hours to get everything done. But there is light at the end of the tunnel – work-life balance is […]
Slow down to speed up
It’s the traffic on the morning dog walk that gives it away. The schools are back in town. Mums in 4 x 4’s with one child zipping up our single-track lane, screeching to a halt as they come across us around a blind bend. I take great pleasure in getting the dogs […]
Carpe Diem
I know what it’s like. Your brain is buzzing. Full, overflowing. Things to do, emails to react to, people to call and meet. Opportunities to follow up on, sales proposals to get out and when are you going to find the time to get those 1:1’s done with the team? “How was your day?” you’re asked… “Busy […]
Frozen in Time
My sister would have celebrated her 50th birthday today. I say celebrated ‘today’ but she would have found a way to make it last at least a week. Seema had an incredibly ability to enjoy life to the full and infecting others around her with that vitality and spark. She made everyone smile. […]
What’s important?
I went to the funeral of a friend this week. I shan’t go into details other than to say it was probably the best I’ve ever been to. Mostly, I suspect, because of the clear impact he had of the lives he touched and that was reflected in the messaging through the whole ceremony and […]
Queues, Rain, Strawberries, And Champagne
Wimbledon is up there with my highlights of the year. For a couple of weeks each year, the country becomes obsessed with tennis and every local park is filled with people giving it a go for the first time. I was a tennis coach for a long time, and I’ve spent SO much […]
Football Can Teach Us A LOT About Business…
If you didn’t already know, I’m a big QPR supporter. I’ve seen incredible highs and incredible lows in recent years and any football fan will appreciate that the highs never seem to last long enough, and the lows always seem to drag on forever… And for QPR, we’re now onto Act III of […]
Should I run my business on my own?
We live an old house. It’s not a rundown ramshackle affair but it was built in the 1850’s. This inevitably means that there are bits of it that are worn, tired and in places, falling apart. For instance, there’s a point at which the conservatory meets the original roof line and it leaks. We have […]
Tomorrow Never Comes
The fifteenth of August 2001 will always be a day I’ll remember. Picture the scene. I’m a tennis coach and preparing for another day. I’m sorting my kit, deciding what to wear, checking registers and eating on the go. Another regular morning. I do remember that it was scorching hot. The kind of hot that leads to […]
