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As you all know, I really enjoy quotes that help us make more sense of daily battles. This one has made me think a lot over the last few weeks: “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself” — Rumi. There is no doubt that the most difficult…

“The best day of your life is the day that you decide that your life is your own… No one to lean on, rely on, or to blame.” We as humans have many similarities with animals—especially monkeys and baboons, which is a scary thought! 😊 But we have one thing that clearly separates us: our cognitive ability to think and…

The Principle of the Short Week Many years ago, I saw an article someone wrote about coming back to work and the plans in your first week. In this article, the author recommended that you never have a full week in your first week back from holiday. I suspect it is easy if you are in an environment where your…

Every year, I find myself planning and filling my diary with plans, playbooks, and actions for the coming year. Companies and leaders gather in meeting rooms to map out their “strategic plan”—a detailed roadmap filled with KPIs, milestones, and forecasts that often look suspiciously like last year’s. But as we approach 2026, there’s a growing realisation that the old playbook…

I have been talking about work-life balance since I stopped playing professional sport twenty years ago. We are juggling all these balls in life and, more often than not, we drop the glass balls and not the rubber ones. In 1991, Bryan Dyson, ex-CEO of Coca-Cola, compared life to juggling five balls at the same time: Work, Family, Health, Friends,…