So You Want to Find a Good Mentor?

How do I find myself a mentor? Is a question often asked by anyone fully invested in their development. Because a mentor offers experience, encouragement, growth and many other benefits, it’s no wonder they are so highly sought. From observation, I notice a lot of people make the same mistake – they desire attaining a … Continue reading So You Want to Find a Good Mentor?

What Does Stand by Me Teach You About Life?

In the category of “I can’t believe I’ve never seen it until now” is Stand by Me, based on the Stephen King novella The Body. The film is an enjoyable ride, falling into that old cliché of “they don’t make them last they used to” The audience is given a snapshot of the life of … Continue reading What Does Stand by Me Teach You About Life?

4 elements to understand change (Infographic)

I recently wrote a new article for Tribe Media all about a formula that helps you understand why change happens. It's a useful skill to understand the basics of change management in both our personal and professional life and I wanted to share the highlights from my writing here in this infographic. 4 elements to … Continue reading 4 elements to understand change (Infographic)

3 Tips to Develop your Resilience to Pressure

"Pressure makes diamonds" Even in a life of routine and control, its inevitable things don’t always go to plan. This is when the mettle of a person gets tested – will they lose their nerve?  Their temper? …Or will they stay calm and calculate their next action?  How do they handle this pressure? People are … Continue reading 3 Tips to Develop your Resilience to Pressure

How to Recover from Burnout and Overstimulation During COVID-19 Lockdown

How are you coping with lockdown? In these types of situations it emphasises the importance dedicate to recovery - as things evolve you can constantly become obsessed seeking updates and trivia When everything kicked off, the news and people on social media went wild with updates and theories on COVID-19. Too much exposure to information … Continue reading How to Recover from Burnout and Overstimulation During COVID-19 Lockdown

7 of the Greatest Life Lessons Everyone Should Follow

It was my birthday last month. As I get another year closer to death, here are the seven most important lessons from my life (so far): Prioritise getting your own life in order first, before you try to help anyone else I’m a massive advocate that if you haven’t sorted yourself out first, you have … Continue reading 7 of the Greatest Life Lessons Everyone Should Follow

How Splitting Tasks into Quadrants Helps to Manage your Time

How dividing time into quadrants… 3 approaches to help you manage your time more effectively Last week I discussed the book by Stephen Covey The 7 habits of highly effective people, covering the four quadrants to manage your time effectively. As I’m going to heavily refer to theories presented in the book, then I recommend … Continue reading How Splitting Tasks into Quadrants Helps to Manage your Time

How applying the 7 habits of highly effective people quadrant theory helps manage time

Last week I discussed the idea of sacrificing sleep to enable you to dedicate time to goals, testing this out in practice, where I found it only left me feeling sleep deprived. This made me conclude it wasn’t we needed to hack our way to having more time in the day, we just need to … Continue reading How applying the 7 habits of highly effective people quadrant theory helps manage time

I Took The Eric Thomas ‘No sleep’ Advice Literally, Here’s What Happened…

When I first started setting goals I used to pump myself listening to YouTube motivational porn like this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgmVOuLgFB0&t=280s Fantastic motivator to pump you up for doing something (as long as you don't fall in the trap of consuming more videos). Something which always peaked my curiosity was a sound bite from a motivational speaker … Continue reading I Took The Eric Thomas ‘No sleep’ Advice Literally, Here’s What Happened…

Be the best you

I wanted to write a post today to ask a simple question: Are you being the best you? Are there things you are unsatisfied with, yet you don’t do anything about it? You tell yourself you’ll do something ‘later’, but not tonight because today has been a ‘hard day’ and you just want to just … Continue reading Be the best you

Simple home bodyweight workout

Well folks, Coronavirus has now resulted in gyms in the UK finally being shutdown. I knew this week my gym sessions were on borrowed time - everytime I had a workout I pushed myself like there was no tomorrow, so to speak, but it still hurt when the government finally shut my temple down. The … Continue reading Simple home bodyweight workout

How far we’ve come…

Reflection is a beneficial practice. Taking the time to sit down to examine your progress and achievements is useful for realising how far you’ve come. You’ll feel a growing sense of gratitude, when you recognise all the things in your life you have. It’s a powerful feeling knowing a lot of things you have now … Continue reading How far we’ve come…