How will you be remembered?
Hoping this week will be a memorable one for you. Speaking of memories: I had one of those events in my life occur last week that will never be forgotten. If you have ever heard me speak or read my...
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Smashing!
You can imagine how angry I was can’t you? You have probably experienced something similar yourself. You return to your car and the wing mirror is damaged or even worse, someone has crashed into your...
View ArticleYou’re on CCTV right now.
I was sitting in my car at my local car park, enjoying a few minutes on Twitter. As I sat there, I saw a small sports car race into an empty space behind me as though its driver’s life depended on it....
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We interrupt your day to bring you this from our ‘iCan Speak Academy‘ on the spot reporter. Please be aware there is no flash photography in this item. On my travels around the UK speaking at various...
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Hairs On The Back Of My Neck Stood Up!
Wow! What an incredible weekend. The launch of the ‘iCan Speak’ Academy far exceeded my expectations and is one day I’ll not forget in a hurry. In fact one of the delegates caused the hairs on the back...
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Three Things I Learnt Last Week That Can Help You Today!
Well, I thought I had learnt everything there was to know about public speaking. And you’d think so after having been speaking for over 10 years and having now delivered 1,735 sessions since I gave my...
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So did you see it? The lunar eclipse on Friday…
I don’t know about you but things were so excited in our house. With three young children who had never experienced a lunar eclipse before, they simply couldn’t contain themselves. They may have been...
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YOUR Comfort Zone
YOUR Comfort Zone This is an important blog post about you and your comfort zone. But first I want to share with you one of my favourite quotes on this subject… “I’ve learned in my life that it’s...
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Schoolboy Error?
Hi I’ll let you be the judge of that. Last night I was speaking at Edinburgh Napier University and today I was heading to get the train home at Waverley station. Anyhow, I was on Periscope streaming...
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And relax……..
Last weekend I was in Keldy in the North Yorkshire Moors staying in a log cabin with it’s own Hot Tub. It was so relaxing and made me realise that I really should get away more often than I do....
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Sock it to them!!!
It’s not very often that I get excited as much as I did this week. I took delivery of a box of brand new and as you can see in the image below, extremely colourful socks. I had bought them on a...
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This evening I met with an old friend to discuss sharing the stage in 2016. Although I loosely knew his story I had never heard him speak. After our meeting I felt obliged to sit and watch his...
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What Star Wars Can Teach Us About Speaking.
Battle with light sabers Like many people I went to see the new Star Wars movie recently. Actually I probably waited a little long than most to see it. I absolutely loved it. And I’ve just booked it...
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The Great Lego Experiment
I’m not sure about you but when I was younger I loved Lego. Not that I ever had any of my own. No, that was a luxury that apparently we couldn’t quite afford. But my friend Dean Johnson, who lived next...
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Great Feedback from the 1st iCan LIVE
Last week we launched the iCan Live event in Newcastle. It was much more than just my keynote presentation. It was a whole day on mindset: goal setting, comfort zones, limiting beliefs and a whole lot...
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Don’t ask, Don’t get.
So there I was. Up at The Marriot Hotel in Newcastle on Tuesday night as I was delivering a presentation skills day for the leadership team at Annalox the next day. I discovered there was a meeting for...
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Worlds Youngest Motivational Speaker (8)
You may have come across this video already on my Facebook page but it was so important that I didn’t want to assume that you had seen it there. A few months ago the children at my son Ellis was asked...
View ArticleMy most inspirational post ever…………….Probably.
So there I was: In London, heading for The Press association where I was delivering presentation skills and as I walked out of Kings Cross Station I saw a man to my left who was stood with a large...
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Disaster!!!
I’m hoping life is good right now and if it’s not then I hope whatever challenge you have right now passes soon. Have you ever done what I did this morning? I walked out of the house early and as soon...
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Want more clients? Maybe you can learn from this guy…
Marketing, can’t live with it, can’t live without it. Actually in the almost 12 years that I have been in business I’ve not done a great deal of marketing. I send out the odd random newsletter or...
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