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I gathered up a collection of artworks and drove them to an auction house. I drove home, walked back in, and it felt completely wrong. Within the hour I was back in the car.
A client said to me: I connected to something really powerful. And then life got busy, and I lost it. How do I keep it? It's one of the most important questions there is.
I was talking to a woman who was heading to Dorset with her family. She was focused entirely on getting there. And I thought: she's already on the road trip. She just can't see it yet.
I spent two hours in a field in the New Forest working harder than I've worked at anything in years. Breathing fast, breathing deep, going all in. And at the end of it, I had nothing. Ten minutes of letting go gave me everything. This is what the breath showed me.
For most of my life, I performed. Not on a stage, in boardrooms. Then a couple of weeks ago I sang in public for the first time, and understood the difference.
There's an exercise I do with almost every client. I ask them to imagine they're 90, looking back on a life well lived. This weekend I noticed I was already there.
Peace, presence, stillness, joy, we treat these as a retreat. Something we do instead of achieving. I think it's exactly backwards. And stranger than that.
One of the outrageous goals I set myself six years ago was to be able to dance in public without alcohol. That tells you something about where I was.
In a recent meditation, I asked myself a simple question. Where is awareness right now? And what does it actually feel like?
There's a moment many successful people reach that's hard to talk about honestly. From the outside, things look good. Inside, something feels tight. Not wrong exactly. Just constrained.
A client came out of breathwork and said something I haven't been able to forget. "Energised by possibility. Heading towards something beautiful." It's not a feature of youth. It's a state — and it never left you.
Purpose. Balance. Joy. They arrived when I was still a CEO, out of nowhere — and became the compass for everything since. This is where the triangle began.
How you feel, how you show up, how clearly you think — it's not weather. It's a state, and it can be shifted deliberately, in minutes. Six tools from an ex-CEO who learned the hard way.
Fire. Earth. Water. Air. A practical framework for understanding how you're showing up — and what's missing.
"What actually lights you up? Not what should. Not what looks impressive. What actually does? Because most successful people have stopped asking."
The clothes you put on, the way you stand, the physical choices you make before a high-stakes moment — they don't just change how others see you. They change how you see yourself.
Stress isn't only a mental event. It lives in the body. And the way to clear it isn't always more thinking — it's movement, shaking, cold water, and letting the cycle complete.
Most people know breath can calm them down. Far fewer know it can wake them up. This is the more advanced technique — and why the discomfort is the point.
The most powerful reset you have is one inhalation away. You don't need a retreat, a quiet room, or fifteen minutes. You just need to remember you're breathing.
A question I come back to often — in my own life, and with clients. Not because it's clever. Because it cuts through."
I’m very happy you’ve found your way here.
In my newsletters and on this blog I’ll be sharing regular reflections, insights and tips along the themes of “purpose, balance and joy”.
Essentially anything that I come across that I feel will enhance your quality of life with the very occasional offer to participate in some way, shape or form.
It could be one sentence or a whole load of goodies.
I parked in a stranger's field after the retreat. Long driveway, racehorses, the kind of property that communicates, without saying a word, that the person who owns it has done very well. He fed the horses and went inside. I sat in my chair under the awning and thought: who's richer?