People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness. - John Wanamaker In the words of the great BA Baracus, from the A-Team: “I pity the fool!” I personally pity the fool that sees working long hours, checking and responding to emails at all hours [...]

This blog first appeared on Active Cubs website. I’ll be honest I would not swap my childhood for those of my children. Ever. They can keep their PlayStation, mobile phones, Pokémon Go, Snapchat and everything else and I’ll keep my dens, tree climbing, BMX and homemade go-kart (read death trap!). But crikey I [...]

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not. - Oprah Winfrey It’s a tricky old business trying to find the right people for a job. The chances are that by the time you are interviewing people there really shouldn’t be too [...]

“How many have laid waste to your life when you weren’t aware of what you were losing, how much was wasted in pointless grief, foolish joy, greedy desire and social amusements – how little of your own was left to you?” Seneca, On The Battle of Life As we start back in [...]

There is an old adage which says, you can’t change what you don’t measure. It’s true of many things and perhaps the most common thing people grapple with is the battle of the bulge. Chances are most of us would ‘like to lose a few pounds’ and in many ways it’s a [...]

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot. - Eleanor Roosevelt Sounds an obvious statement doesn’t it – successful candidates believe in themselves? But whether you admit to it or [...]