Please Stick to your New Year’s Resolutions

I’ve written before about why I’m not convinced by New Year’s Resolutions. I think if you want to make change, make it there and then and not wait until the new year. But, if you insist, please at least stick to them! I can’t say I’m an expert in…

The Importance of Reading

How many of you will have a book on your Christmas list? This year, for a Secret Santa, I gave a book and received a book (if you’re interested, I gave ‘1984’ and received ‘What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20’). In my opinion, books, podcasts, interviews,…

Why do we leave things until the last minute?

There’s so much value in getting things done early… yet we always leave things until the last minute? I’d be quite interested to understand why we do leave things until the last minute. I could speculate as to why, and I guess many people do, but that topic can…

Win a medal only to have your funding scrapped

Today UK Sport announced their funding plans for the road to Tokyo 2020. This news was not good for anyone related to Archery, Fencing, Weightlifting, Wheelchair Rugby, and the sport that got me upset – Badminton. Before I get into the news of today. Lets have a quick look…

Zorba the Greek

This week I finished the book, ‘Zorba the Greek’ by Nikos Kazantzakis, published in 1946. Hailed as a classic, this book really was hard to put down. The book is a tale of the narrator setting off to find fortune from mines, before setting off he meets Zorba. The…

Nobody’s Listening

This week a good friend of mine, Oli Monks, released a post on Medium. My post for this week will simply be to share his – it is so important for people to read and understand that I had to share. I am 100% guilty of being that guy…

Make It Happen Week

This Monday – November 14th – is the start of Global Entrepreneurship Week 2016, this year branded as Make It Happen Week in Lancaster. After seeing myself in a promo video for this year (I had completely forgotten that I’d filmed this!) I felt I had to make a…

How to know if you’re improving

Self-awareness is probably the answer many would give to this question. You need to be aware of where you were, what you’ve done and where you are now. If you see progress in yourself, then you’ve improved. I strongly agreed with this statement – and I probably do. But…

Does university teach you enough to start a business?

A question that has come to my mind a number of times these past weeks and even more so today after watching the snapchat of Fraser Williams, co-founder of Repairly. His story today showed him and the team working on plans for Repairly, mainly financial plans.   He spoke…

Details Matter

This week I was able to check off a bucket list item – have a coffee master class. Thanks to Taylor St. Baristas I was able to spend a day learning about coffee – from sourcing, to roasting, to brewing. The level of detail covered was incredible and this…