I am sure I have touched on this subject before, but have you ever heard the phrase “You have to be prepared to do what others are not prepared to do, to have what others will never have” – or something similar?  Well I used to think what that meant…

You may know that I speak quite a lot.  No – I don’t mean I blab on erroneously – although some people may think so.  I mean I do public speaking.  In fact, I train public speakers to reach hearts and minds from stage (as you will know if you…

This evening I had one of the best telephone calls of my life…..I’ll get to that shortly, but let me go back 2 days first. On Monday afternoon this week you would have seen me at home in my lounge.  It was 3pm in the afternoon and I had spent…

I don’t know about you, but I am finding that (with the exception of the extra wrinkles which I am not keen on), life is getting better the older I get.  And there are a number of reasons for that – the main one being – I am doing what…

This past week has been an extra busy one for me – for a very sad reason.  My elderly neighbour (in his 80’s), who has been in hospital or residential homes for most of the past 12 months was rushed into Stepping Hill a week ago, and was not expected…

You may have seen in the press and (ironically) on social media this week that Wetherspoons has shut down all it’s social media accounts relating to it’s Head Office and 900 outlets.  Ironically I say, because they chose to announce this on Twitter to their 44,000 followers.  Which is a seriously…

Something weird is happening to me this week.  I’m not sure what it is but I’m starting to see things differently.   You see – I was in the shower a few days ago, like every morning, and I was looking at the controls.  We have a horizontal silver bar going…

Do you sometimes feel you are ‘too busy’. You have more to do in the day than hours to accomplish it in? This modern day world has made that more and more common, with the technology that is supposed to help us, sometimes causing havoc. In the old days –…