Mind over Matter
Another week closer to ‘D’ day :-), only 4 weeks to go and the last email from Adventure Peaks came through this week with all of the final details. Itinerary, flight details, equipment checklists, admin details and medical / emergency insights – all printed out ready for my laser like attention to detail….. think I […]
Will it help me get up the mountain?
So what a week – been at home a little more the last week so pushing hard with training – combining strength and endurance work, with running, with walking up Holcombe Hill carrying extra weight and wearing my big boots! J Over 30 miles in the last week and over 110 miles so far in […]
It is really going to happen!
I often used to think that it would be “good to have had an adventure…. sometime…..in the past!” Well, that desire has caught up with me because in just over 6 weeks I am off to climb Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the world outside the Himalayas at just under 7000 metres high! I am […]
Thank you for being caught speeding!
Earlier in the week I was lucky enough to attend a speed awareness course having being flashed by a speed camera at ‘very early o’clock’ on my way to Piccadilly station a few weeks ago! 35mph in a 30 going through a green light, most people would potentially consider that bad luck, but I say […]
Do you spend more time planning your weekly shop than you do your life?
A couple of weeks ago I finally signed up for a trip to climb Aconcagua – the largest mountain outside of the Himalayas standing just under 7000m above the planes of Argentina. I did so for a number of reasons, but mainly because the mountain creates a chance to push myself out of my comfort […]
4 Leadership Lessons from Zermatt
Sitting on the train on the way back from a great skiing trip to Zermatt with my daughter Alice, brother in-law and nephew George, I was reflecting on what insights and lessons I had learned this week. I am a great believer in the fact that there is always something to learn from your experiences […]
3 Things over Christmas to set yourself up for 2016
Welcome to the last blog of the year and what a year it has been – tempus fugit ……… and some! It has been an interesting and challenging year in so many different ways, but one in which I have gone to work on myself and made massive progress. I am looking forward to a […]
5 Steps to Improve Your Productivity
My eldest daughter Alice is enjoying the start of that wonderful run of years in education that seems to have exams at every turn, GCSEs this summer coming. She came into my office the other evening in a bit of a flap. “Daddy I seem to have so much to do, I have so many […]
Why are we failing to taking accountability?
I have a confession to make…… last Saturday, whilst playing Hockey for Cheetham Hill against Keswick, I was green carded and removed from the field of play for 5 minutes. This was a first in my illustrious (a word only I would use) hockey career and was a bit of a shock to be trudging […]
8 Leadership Lessons from Tough Mudder
Last weekend a couple of friends and I completed the North West Tough Mudder event in Malpas Cheshire. To the uninitiated Tough Mudder is, and I quote…. “a team-oriented 10-12 mile obstacle course designed to test physical strength and mental grit. Tough Mudder puts camaraderie over finisher rankings and is not a timed race but […]