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About a week ago I started asking my clients to think about their “Top 6 goals for 2018”. The answers have been enlightening because,...

Watches that beep The fact that I don’t want to own an Apple Watch was verified this weekend by the countless beeps, boings and pings...

Funny how buses come in three’s isn’t it? It’s not an old wives’ tale either – the scientific evidence is that a phenomenon known as...

Sunday was largely a Bunker Day – back in the world of the freelancer, reading and answering 180 emails and my preparation for the week...

Planning 10-12 weeks vacation every year. It’s still the best business decision I ever made. Listening to Dan Sullivan, founder of...

So – last day on the road before a week’s vacation including a cottage holiday in West Wales. Gloucester Independent Dental today and an...

Your strategy is the reason why your business exists. It is what you want to be known as the best for. Your tactics are the methods by...

My 16-hour stop-over at home was necessary, primarily to avoid the madness of what would have been 11 consecutive days living out of a...

Your unique ability is the work that you get paid for and, more importantly, the work you love to do, because you are just brilliant when...

Yesterday the alarm was at 05:00 and after composing my blog I set off on a 10k run, blown along by the remnants of Ophelia past...

I’m carrying a niggling groin strain at the moment, which means that I’m unable to predict when it will kick in or for how long it will...

There comes a moment in personal or business development when we PIVOT. At that moment, the course changes in a fundamentally new...

So here goes with Chris Barrow ColdTurkeyTober stats: My weight – 74Kg (ideal for my age/height is 70.85). My BMI – 22.6 (normal for my...

Phew! After last night’s chaos at London’s Euston Station (see my Facebook profile), this morning’s blog is a little later than usual...

Do you ever get sick of the state you are in? I seem to be accumulating tolerations at the moment and the other day it dawned on me that...

My 27th marathon in Nottingham yesterday with Josh Barrow was definitely not the most fun I’ve ever had. It was a hot, sunny day. My...

Tuesday 19th September 21:00 – arrives home and prints boarding pass for flight to Belfast the next morning – flight time 08:40 21:05 –...

Setting 90-day goals has been at the centre of the personal and professional development work I do with clients ever since I first read...

There’s something about running your own small business. To quote my friend and client Dapo Olotu, founder of Dental 397 in Exeter:...