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Seed of Possibility

We’d just spent 90 minutes together in a hotel cafe, our first proper conversation since meeting at a seminar the year before. As we walked out and reached Baker Street station, ready to go our separate ways, he turned to me and said the words that started a whole new vision. “Imagine what is possible from now on.” I remember that exact spot in the tube station. Something shifted in me right there, a seed taking root that would grow into a vision. At the time, I’d reached out to him because I…

Open Your Fist And Receive

“Just that flat, stale feeling.” Those were the words one of my clients used to describe how he’s feeling right now. You may have experienced this too. Still showing up. Still ticking boxes. Still moving the needle. But the energy that’s usually there is gone. I resonate, because this week I’ve been in that feeling myself. Pretty exhausted, mentally. Even though my calendar has a lot of space right now, I’ve found myself creatively and strategically depleted, with limited inspiration to act…

The 5 Gifts of Detachment

“This better be worth it” was the thinking I had in my mind this week. The last two weeks I’ve had my head down finalising the manuscript for my upcoming book, Lead From Within. Over the last few years, and particularly the last three, I have poured everything into this book. Early mornings as I was working full time. Half days in the week over the last few months. Eight years of coaching conversations, working with over 500 people who have unlocked their true self and stepped into authentic…

The Two Forms of Discipline

It was the hottest day of the year so far and I was running the London Marathon, 2025. My legs were ready and my mind clear, months of training behind me that gave me the confidence to go after my sub three hour thirty goal. For the first twenty kilometres, everything flowed and I was on track. But somewhere around the 27 kilometre mark, passing through Canary Wharf, my quads began to cramp. My breathing went shallower than it should have been. I’d used more salts and gels than I’d planned…

Meraki

There’s a Greek word called meraki, and it means to do something with soul, creativity and love, to leave a piece of yourself in everything you do, and in a world so obsessed with outcomes, meraki is the art of bringing your soul into the process and life itself rather than just chasing whatever the result might be at the end of it. I’ve been writing Lead From Within for over four years now, though the work behind it stretches back seven, and even after nearly finishing the manuscript I was…

You never know who’s reading

I was on a call this week with a client, a senior executive at a tech company, who’s been considering sharing some of his thoughts and ideas more openly on LinkedIn and in other formats. “What would people think?” “Would anyone even read it?” “If no one likes it, I’ll get disheartened.” It reminded me of my own journey. I started back in 2017, sharing my thoughts, ideas, and the things I was learning as I geeked out on leadership, psychology, and all things self-mastery. At first, I thought…

5 Reminders When Life Gets Tough

There are moments in life when everything seems to be pressing in on you at once, when the path forward is unclear, when the weight of it all is heavy, and during these times it can be so easy to lose faith and question yourself and your path. Today’s newsletter is for you if you are in one of those moments right now, or this is one to save for when you find yourself here in the future. 1. If it weren’t for tough times, you wouldn’t have become who you are today Think about who you were three…

Overthinking and Underfeeling

Have you ever been in the middle of a busy week, energy running low, and had a thought cross your mind that you should leave the office early, only for another voice to arrive almost instantly telling you what your team will think, what it will look like, whether you’ve done enough to justify it? So you stay. Tired, half-present, staring at a screen. Doing nothing particularly useful, but you stay… Maybe it shows up differently for you. A relationship that hasn’t felt right for a while, but…

Nobody Expected Him to Win

Have you ever looked at someone succeeding in your field and wondered whether you’re doing it all wrong? Maybe their approach looks more polished, more visible, more conventional. Maybe they seem to be playing the game the way the game is supposed to be played, and you’ve been wondering whether your own route, your own pace, your own way of doing things, is ever actually going to get you there? I’ve been there. And this week, an unlikely source reminded me of something important. I’m not a…

The 5 Lies You’ve Built Your Life On

Good to be back. I’ve been out of my usual routine for the past couple of weeks, travelling through the US, and during that trip I co-hosted a dinner event in Chicago with 35 executives and entrepreneurs. What came out of that evening was one of the most honest conversations I’ve had in a room full of high-achievers, and I wanted to share a snippet of it with you here. We spoke about five lies. Not the obvious ones. The ones that look like virtues, sound like discipline, and get praised by…