This is for all the marketing agencies, manual and movement therapists that keep contacting me on how to build a profit making Pilates business. Well I have to tell you the truth. No business is plain sailing, we should expect ups and downs, like life. The media is full of fear and scaremongering, there is [...]
This is related to the idea that each person who sees a thing will see it filtered through their own perceptions. So none of us really see any situation objectively. This is known as confirmation bias. Each person sees life with their own beliefs, preconceptions, interpretation, and attitude. It means that the way we see [...]
Did you know that we spend and waste too much time and energy on other people? Their behaviour, their actions, their words, thoughts and deeds. So this is really IMPORTANT. I am not excusing people’s behaviour here or accepting it. However people's behaviour is reflection of where they are, what they are, and how they [...]
I have just returned from a mind-blowing weekend in London of Shiva Rae and Paul Mort. Quite contrasting people from opposite sides of the world, both working in different ways with different tools to enrich and empower the people in front of them so they can enrich others. If you don’t know these people here [...]
After 30 years of teaching, coaching and working with chronic pain clients from Joe Bloggs to pro athletes and also drawing from my own private life, I’ve gathered a wealth of information that I want to share with you now… here goes… If you avoid the following: Losing weight Lowering inflammation Training for an event [...]
We are all eternal students in life. Life is an amazing game that we play. It has the most incredible challenges and hardships, we bathe in its trials and tribulations. There is but one end destination and there is no escaping this. Did we spend the time looking over our shoulder in fear? Did we [...]
Here is my Dad at the Liverpool V Real Madrid match this Saturday, and what an adventure he had. He was one of the lucky ones to get into the stadium and to his seat. Whatever you think of the Paris football match this Saturday. We all need each other. All gatherings whether large or [...]
I am always getting messages through Facebook, Instagram, messenger, linked in and email. “Can you help me please……” “I have sternosis, fibromyalgia, arthritis, osteoporosis and the list goes on.” “I can’t lose weight.” “I’ve spent so much money on therapists, drugs and surgeons and I am still the same.” “I have depression and anxiety which [...]
I have just had the pleasure of chatting with Richard Attwood (nickname Dickie). Richard “Dickie” Attwood competed in 17 World Championship Grand Prix, racing for Lotus, Cooper and BRM; he also won the 1970 24h Le Mans. I asked him what his biggest attribute has been in his life. He said winning the F1 formula [...]
Distraction is a decision, not a disease - a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else. We never get distracted from the things that we value the highest. We all fall victim to distraction and procrastination including myself. This can be the phone, the internet, the computer, the Ipad, the washing, the cooking, [...]
