“Dear Kate, It was so good to catch up with you last night. Standing in front of the house, the whole of Bedford hidden from view behind the conifers and more obviously local hawthorns and assorted hedgerow shrubbery beside your parents’ house, its commanding presence over-looking the whole of Bedford an unknown secret as I …
If you could go back in time, what would you say to your younger self? 4th July 1995 And yes, this is me. The best summer ever, working as a lifeguard at Camp Rockmont in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. A summer with the most amazing kids and staff, some of whom are still …
Albums you will love, especially if you are me. Queen – The Miracle Todays thought is “don’t listen to your own stupid head, it has no idea what it is talking about” I have a very distinct memory of first listening to this album, round at Russell’s, with Steve & Richard. It was May 1999. …
How often do you make up excuses not to exercise? You are simply ‘far too busy’ to look after yourself. Sounds silly when I word it like that doesn’t it. The simple fact is if we don’t compromise somewhere in our life then nothing will ever change. One of the advantages of yoga is that …
My first PT mentor was a Tasmanian performance coach that I met at the FitPro Convention at Loughborough, close on 15 years ago. Andrew May said something in that lecture theatre that has stuck with me ever since. slow down Andrew May He called the concept ‘hapa, hapa’. A Swahili term, translated as ‘slowly, slowly’. …
Stop making choices that make you feel miserable. Make sure there is joy to be had around your house. Look for joy EVERYWHERE
How to Succeed It is easy to lose faith in what you are doing. I had a wobble on my Synergy 21 Day Challenge last week, as you may recall. Today it was over the commitment to write every day. At the start, 39 days ago, I did wonder if it might be too much …
2 years ago I had to walk away from the gym that was my second home, and had been for 13 years. Less than 3 months months after that I was walking away from a shared studio that suited neither of us. Lockdown brought my business to the brink. Covid still means I haven’t returned …
Tomorrow, October 10th, is World Mental Health Day and on that theme I want to share with you the one thing that has helped me over the years: Be Grateful. Gareth Snelson It sounds almost too simple, yet it works. I used to keep a grateful log which, annoyingly, I can’t find anywhere now. It …
Language is a marvellous thing, don’t you think? Maybe you don’t, as we take our communication so much for granted as to never ponder it’s existence, or the benefits it provides us. How many of you talk out loud to yourself? You are the minority that have created an extra tool to solve problems, because …
