Want no should

Want not should. Three words or really two words that can define so much… This time last year I started working with Scott Hardiman to help me through a lot of the challenges that I was going through and these words came up very early in the discussions we had. Reflecting back now 12 months […]
Marginal Gains

In 2024 I started to run. I have never ever wanted to be a runner, didn’t see the point to it, but people said I should give it a go… and guess what I didn’t find it awful. What was awful was how far I couldn’t run and secondly the speed that I could run. […]
You are your own brand

I’ve had a number of people recently comment that I am the “face” of the brand that I work for. This is odd for me. I’m not (of course) a Elon Musk or a Richard Branson who are those sorts of faces that you immediately think of when it comes to the likes of Tesla […]
Return to Study

My last formal qualifications was A-levels. Do I feel embarrased by that? No not really as I’ve done some amazing things in my life that I know if I had gone to university that I wouldn’t have had the chance to do. Also I went into the theatre industry in a time and to some […]
Bouncing Back from Failure

This post first appeared on my personal blog here So this post is not about where I’ve been, something I reviewed, travel, hotels or anything like that. This is a far more personal post that I’ve been wanting to write for a while but just haven’t felt the motivation to do so. It’s about bouncing […]
What is a degree actually worth?

I’m going to write this as un-biased as I can given my lack of a degree and stopping full time eduction at 18. However following leaving my previous company in February 2016 and looking for new opportunities – the question of What is a degree worth has come very to the forefront of my thinking. Now […]