As I have got older and time appears so much more precious, this has become a topic of increasing importance to me. When I write about having no regrets, this is not just classic death bed regrets, I am also referring to having no regrets when my children have grown...

“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”– Muhammad Ali There are  plenty of studies that have explained how we...

“If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.” -  Tiger Woods We usually think of role models as those we...

I am a big supporter of formal education, having attended college and University after school, I enjoyed that education and what it gave me. More recently, my own PhD, although offered by a formal learning institution at Bournemouth University, it involves research...

Today I am writing about one of the subjects that I spend a great deal of time talking to my students and clients about – how to stop trying to control everything, and in particular, stopping trying to control the uncontrollable. "Only one thing has to change for us...

My legacy; this is something I’ve been thinking about a bit more deeply recently as I am about to hit a Birthday that will see me closer to 50 than 40 and as I watch my children grow up. Will I have made any kind of an impact, what mark will I make? “If you’re going...

I’m an ultra-running, weight lifting, hypnotherapist, researcher of self-hypnosis with a “hypnosis geek” YouTube channel who has a penchant for bow ties, trucker caps and gin, who reads research papers and sci-fi novels for fun and loves watching documentaries about...

I talk about self-efficacy a great deal in my classrooms, and it gets mentioned often in my research and today I wanted to write an article explaining what it is and how to apply it in one’s day-to-day life. “If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely...

This weekend just gone by, I was teaching the final module of my current hypnotherapy practitioner diploma course and we spend some time discussing applications of hypnosis for advancing sporting performance. One of the themes that crops up with applications of mental...

In the past week, I've posted a bunch of photos and film clips that have been recorded at my gym or when out running. It just so happened to be a testing week last week to see where I am at and how I have progressed in the last training block. In January, I was really...