I’ve got a confession to make
I once paid an agency £5,000 to write my LinkedIn About section, then took three months to publish it. Now writing every week is the best CPD I do.
Maybe it’s not about creation, it’s about awareness
One season at Urban Outfitters we couldn't stop selling cheap plastic chandeliers. The next big thing turned out to be a box on a shelf that had been there all along.
Performance is fragile. Expression isn't.
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.
I got there thirty years early
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.
I went on a retreat and all I came back with was the meaning of life
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.
Removing the Shackles of Success
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.