Of travel, imagination and appreciation
Back on the workshop trail this week: Tuesday – Edinburgh Wednesday – Newcastle Thursday – Leeds Friday – Birmingham Saturday – Newcastle (again!). I mentioned in my last post that the Caledonian in Edinburgh managed to destroy my first post-Canadian sleep by setting off the fire alarm at 4.00am on Tuesday morning. Interesting to note [...]
Back – sort of
I arrived back in Edinburgh at 12 noon yesterday. My suitcase arrived in Edinburgh at 5.00pm yesterday. Thanks for nothing British Airways. I suppose I should count my blessings. I collapsed into bed at 9.30pm last night at the Caledonian. At 4.00am the fire alarm sounded and I spent an interesting hour with all the [...]
Mastermind meeting over
Meeting over – and I am overwhelmed with the quantity and quality of the ideas that I’ve gained from my fellow members. It is very uncomfortable to have your professional life “creatively destroyed” by others – but when: you trust, respect and like them and they don’t have an axe to grind, an agenda, a [...]
Fundamentals
It’s hot here in Montreal – yesterday the temperature climbed to 86 degrees and walking the 20 minutes from my hotel to our conference venue and back were a delight. Fundamentals. There is a good conversation going on here with my fellow coaches – and I’m reminded of fundamental lessons that can be applied to [...]
Wherever I lay my hat – that’s my home
Yours truly on a Tuesday afternoon conference call with Michel Neray of Esential Message fame and members of his bull-pen coaching group. Today (Wednesday) I begin my 3 days of mastermind coaching with a group of 10 coaches from North America and the UK – and this afternoon I have been listening to them coach [...]
Raphael – the closer
Raphael is a street entertainer in Montreal. Monday is Victoria Day – a national holiday – and in the sunshine he performs in the Place Jacques-Cartier, taking his 30-minute pitch in between other performers. But Raphael makes more money than anyone else as I watch from the restaurant alongside. Why? His act is good – [...]
Day 4 – Montreal (eventually)
Well after my last post (they called the flight) we all sat on the aircraft for a while and the pilot then told us that: the reason for the delay was that Heathrow was busy (duh)Â and because our aircraft had to be towed to the gate across from the other side of the airport, [...]
Spoke too bloody soon didn’t I!
I’ve been sat in T4 (Heathrow) for 4.5 hours now. Flight was due to leave an hour ago – no news, no announcement, no aircraft, no ground staff – just 300 tired people waiting around in a gate area with seats for 100. Nothing seems to be changing then – although the flight down from [...]
Day 3 of travel
I’ll be catching a flight from Edinburgh to Heathrow this morning – and then Heathrow to Montreal. Sounds crazy for a guy who started his journey in Cornwall on Friday afternoon but there’s method in my madness. I’ll be flying back from Canada and straight into a workshop week that goes Edinburgh, Newcastle, Leeds, Birmingham [...]
£800 million and they forgot to get the grass right?
  OK – maybe a bit of sore losing on my part – but the honours for the season have been shared well on reflection. I’m just glad I didn’t have a seizure a few weeks ago and pay the £1750 asking price for a pitch-side seat at the new Wembley – or, for [...]
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