Only Connect: How to be more connected to yourself, your purpose and to others

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Developing a deeper sense of connection means being more in touch with yourself, your purpose, your strengths and. your ideas. It means connecting more closely with others and with the world. Having this stronger sense of awareness and relatedness boosts your curiosity, creativity, clarity of communication, caring and compassion (for yourself and others). Staying connected […]

The Productivity Paradox: How slowing down can speed things up

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There is a French phrase, bobine arrière pour bondir, which I heard a while ago and which has stuck with me. It means ‘coil back in order to spring forward’ and it effortlessly captures some concepts I’ve been reflecting on and playing with for a while, in relation to my own productivity, performance and wellbeing. […]

Achieving Peak Performance

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My Alliance colleague Juan Coto has been working closely with tennis player Johanna Konta for over a year. As Johanna soars from one achievement to the next – as I write she has just played Angelique Kerber in the semi-finals of the Australian Open, the first female British player to get that far in over three […]

Daniel Dennett’s Information Age

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My instinctive response to the question ‘Which Information Age are we living in?’ might be ‘The Age of Information Overload’. Distinguished philosopher, cognitive scientist and author Daniel Dennett has a more highbrow answer. In a meaty lunchtime talk organised by the How to Academy, he swept across a mindboggling slew of topics, from the beginnings […]

Flow, Stretch Goals and Cliff Top Paths: How to set yourself appropriate challenges

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Flow, the classic book by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on how to achieve happiness and enhance the quality of life, argues that nine conditions need to be in place for us to be able to have an enjoyable experience, one that gets us ‘in the zone’ or into a place of ‘flow’. One prerequisite is that the […]

Who will you make peace with? – Interview with Peace One Day’s Jeremy Gilley

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Today is the eve of this year’s Peace Day, an international initiative for peace and nonviolence. This year it has a particular emphasis on the Democratic Republic of Congo, with a massive concert in Goma airport, headlined by singer Akon. And today I’d like to share my post about Peace One Day’s Founder, Jeremy Gilley. He […]

Bags of Potential at Barnardo’s

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The most vivid memory I will carry with me from our Alliance day at Barnardo’s* is the look of mingled surprise and delight on one of the winners’ faces when first place in ‘The Apprentice’-style competition was announced. Ruth, Juan and I had spent the day with six young people and in our view, all […]

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A 2.4 mile swim, 112 miles on a bike, then a marathon run of 26.2 miles. This is what it takes to complete an Ironman challenge. To win one it takes someone like Chrissie Wellington: driven, passionate, focused, super-fit. At the second of the Meyler Campbell Workshops on Ultra High Performing Women, we had the […]

Lessons from elite rowers Katherine Grainger and Cath Bishop

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‘I wasn’t very sporty at school.’ This immediately got me sitting up straighter in my chair. Not a surprising revelation, you might think. You might, except that the person I’m quoting is former Olympic rower Cath Bishop. She urges us not to be held back by our own or other people’s (pre)conceptions of us: we […]

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