I was fortunate enough to be invited to listen to activist Chris Lubbe in Liverpool last week. He was Nelson Mandela’s bodyguard. He told the most defying story of his upbringing, torture and apartheid (segregation/apart on the grounds of race) in South Africa. The audience was full of tears. Chris’s purpose in life is to [...]
"When the going gets tough, the tough gets going”....... It’s easy to give up in life isn’t it. Better the devil you know that the devil you don’t know. The hardest thing to do is to change our behaviour from yesterday to do something different today, tomorrow, next week, next month, next year.... This is [...]
The Importance of Being Uncomfortable for Personal Growth and Setting Priorities There are many situations where we must be uncomfortable in order to grow and learn. For example, if you want to become stronger, you must lift weights that are heavy. If you want to reduce pain you have got to look at exercise, diet, [...]
You see you only read the good aspects of myself and the business, but never the downsides. Did you know that we actually learn more from problems, than the rosy things in life? My biggest breakthrough in dealing with myself first and people over the last 30 years is that there is no such thing [...]
What story are we holding onto…. In all my 30 years plus of teaching I have encountered many stories. This is the thing we all have a story, whether it’s physical, mental, emotional or spiritual. The danger is when we hold onto that story and let it rule our lives by the decisions that we [...]
Don’t wait for the approval of others to change. This thinking and belief system comes from the archetype ‘the eternal child’. We are conditioned to get the approval of schooling, parents, religion, governments and our peer group. People tell me they want to improve their movement, reduce their chronic pain, decrease inflammation, get stronger, improve [...]
Do you want to see change??? This last week I have spoken to numerous prospective clients and prospective Pilates apparatus teachers. But this is the thing…….. If you want something different in life, you got to be prepared to do something different. This can be career, body fat, training for a race, becoming pain free, [...]
Fear cannot exist without courage. We need fear to grow. Most of our fears are poor mind management. Question: How can you live a courageous life that you love? Answer: By Living a life that demonstrates your core values and belief systems. Most of us are worried about swimming in the river, because of [...]
I get enquiries every day for teacher training, chronic pain, Pilates apparatus and so on. These are the thoughts and actions that hold people back that prevent people from progressing forwards with me by signing up and in life. I don’t have the energy I don’t have the time I don’t have the skill The [...]
Have you seen the TV cult show ‘The Prisoner’??? I have come to Portmerion in Wales this weekend. A beautiful village full of flora and fauna, with some amazing buildings and history. Patrick McGoogan the star of the show was held captive physically, mentally, spiritually and emotionally in the village and by the people of [...]
