How often do you tidy up at home?

I’m assuming that you’ll tidy up pretty much every day that you/someone else makes a mess. Next day you’ll do it all again, only this time possibly adjust to make less mess or don’t let the kid near the condiments!

Maybe once a week or...

How to stop holding yourself back.

Imposter syndrome held me back from fully expressing my potential for over 15 years. It’s silly when I look back at the missed opportunities I let sail on by due to that little nagging imposter. 

In this story, I am going to share with you the final...

I am going to throw a novel concept at you all here. When all the social media wellness gurus talk about behaviour change and making ‘life-altering improvements to mind and body there is often this underlying advice that you need to STOP doing something to achieve your results.

In this...

There is a really interesting philosophical question that has been floating around for years. It is philosophical because it is open to interpretation and it is very subjective, it isn’t clear cut and the is no cookie-cutter answer, so this article will most certainly divide some opinions....

YOU ARE MORE THAN JUST A PERFORMANCE PRACTITIONER

As fitness professionals and performance practitioners you give so much of yourself to your clients, athletes and staff. It is often in our nature to give our time, energy and resources to those around us at work and in our personal lives.

The...

PRACTITIONER WELL-BEING IS OVERLOOKED TOO MUCH.

In previous articles, I have spoken in great depth about how you need to carve out time for yourself in order to build a sustainable professional pathway for yourself that will lead to happiness, health and wealth.

This is an incredibly overlooked...

Jobs are no longer just for paying the bills. Today, people want work that is meaningful and enjoyable. This has led to the advice to “follow your passion”: the idea that we must identify our greatest interest and pursue this as a career in order to find happiness and fulfilment.

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What to do when you are gutter balling personally or professionally.

This article is all about what you can do when parts of your life aren’t going to plan, largely because your thoughts, actions and behaviours aren’t in line with who you are or who you consider yourself to be. I am...

If you’re like me, you’re in the middle of your second decade as a performance practitioner and if there’s one thing that I’ve take away from that time, it’s that my own mental well-being is vital to my own long-term health, as well as the ability to maintain this...

It is estimated that burnout costs the global economy £255 billion a year. Burnout tends to happen as a result of long-term stress in a situation or job that, for whatever reason, you’re highly committed to. So the more you care about your work, the more likely you are to experience...

I knew a coach that used to say…

‘Time is the enemy’

I understood what he was getting at, that it always feels like there is more we can do, and we are always busy. But I didn’t fully buy into it. The more he used this mantra the more it started to bother me. Until one...

They say things come in threes!

A toddler trapped locked in a car, a car key lost on a trail run and a bike accident.

A warm week in June 2020 saw: a work colleague’s toddler lock himself in the car (he enjoyed the fire engine that came to free him), another work colleague losing her car...