This may sound strange, coming from a business coach who spends most of his days working with clients on setting goals (and the rest reviewing his own). I've...

to converse or talk together, usually with profound intensity, intimacy, etc.; interchange thoughts or feelings. I have an 07:00 Zoom call this morning with ...

I’m a huge fan and regular reader of Maria Popova’s weekly email newsletter “Brain Pickings”. To quote Maria, “Brain Pickings has a free Sunday digest of the...

There have been two occasions in recent weeks on which I’ve woken early and arrived down in the kitchen to discover horror stories all over social media conc...

There’s been some comment on both sides of the Atlantic about the fact that I haven’t yet disconnected from the web, even though I’m on vacation. Perhaps the...

For many of us, first proper day back at work tomorrow – the party being over. It occurred to me as a jogged through a frosty Dunham Massey Country Park this...

I’m a neat freak. This is possibly the quietest week of the working year and an opportunity to spend some time thinking, planning and preparing for the first...

October has established itself as the busiest month in my working calendar (and, it seems, that of many of my friends and clients who run their own businesse...

Followers of my social media channels will know that on Thursday I had the privilege of joining Patrick Allen from Henry Schein and small group of intrepid d...

Reality is what we take to be true. What we take to be true is what we believe. What we believe is based upon our perceptions. What we perceive depends on wh...

Change isn’t the challenge – the pace of change is the challenge. Disruption used to be recorded in geological eras, by reference to the advancement of metalw...

On 1st February 2016 I weighed in at 12 st – always a tipping point for CB where the pain of my self-loathing becomes greater than the pain of doing somethin...

A personal coaching exercise. Take 2 sheets of blank paper and a pen. write a list of the achievements, events and relationships in your life, past and prese...

Today brings digital news of the unexpected death of another friend of a friend. The second in as many weeks. People I didn’t know. Who they were isn’t relev...

I don’t know about you but I’ve had enough of alcohol, food, late nights and partying after an exceptional 10 days. After tonight’s slow-roast lamb and a gla...

Last week I posed the question “so what next?” and shared my struggles to find an answer. This blog exists for personal catharsis but there is something hear...

This post is lengthy and extremely self-indulgent. Many is the time that I have recommended a book by Frederic Hudson that changed my life in 1998 when I fir...

Fail, Fail Again, Fail Better by Pema Chödrön My rating: 5 of 5 stars I arrived home last Friday evening, completely burned out by October. A month which inc...

Back in the early days of my temporary TV celebrity status (May 2014 to be precise) I was chatting to my business partner Tim Caudrelier in the Radisson Blu ...

My photographs on Facebook will bear witness to the beauty of The Lake District and, in particular from this trip, Grizedale Forest and Roanhead Beach. This ...