WEEKLY FOCUS Self Motivation It’s down to each of us!  Listen here Sometimes we hear people say “I am just not motivated”…The inference being that they are looking for answers and not from themselves! To put it very simply, you can’t be motivated unless we have...

WEEKLY FOCUS The importance of creating a plan… To get to where you want to!  Listen here With the busy world that we all live in, we seldom find time for ourselves. Some quiet downtime which allows for the chance to self-reflect, to assess where we are in our lives ...

WEEKLY FOCUS An obsession… and that damages our personal relationships  Listen here Our quest for information, a need to see what everyone is doing. Wanting to share our own experiences.  To use the old expression…”Keeping up with The Jones’s”! Everywhere you go,...

WEEKLY FOCUS Just ask yourself… How did you make people feel?  Listen here Recently I attended a funeral,  someone that I had known for some twenty years and because of the circles in which we mixed, we shared each other’s company perhaps twice weekly for all that...

WEEKLY FOCUS Style over Substance? Is there room for both?  Listen here With the current race on to be the next Conservative Party Leader, we have two very different candidates! On one hand there is Boris Johnson. For some the “Clown Prince”, while to others a...

WEEKLY FOCUS Comfort Zones? Step outside and challenge yourself! Listen here Comfort zones…It’s a well-used expression…but what is the dictionary definition? I found two descriptions… “A situation where one feels safe or at ease” “A settled method of working that...

WEEKLY FOCUS Teams…  And why they are so important! Listen here We take teams for granted sometimes. For many of us, it’s what we become accustomed to in much of our day to day working environments. Something happened to me recently, which brought home the importance...

WEEKLY FOCUS How do you eat an elephant? In bite sized chunks! Listen here Many things that we do in life can appear daunting. The scale or magnitude of what lies ahead. A student moving to University may feel that obtaining a degree is a big ask and a long way off....

WEEKLY FOCUS We are born lucky… Or are we? Listen here We have all probably heard of the saying “he has the luck of the Irish…or “everything that they touch seems to turn to gold”. The implication of both being that some people are just born lucky, but is that really...

WEEKLY FOCUS Wisdom. And is it the same as knowledge? Listen here An accepted definition of “Wisdom” is the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, understanding, common sense and insight. Compare that to “Knowledge”. We can define this as facts,...