Ignorance is the number one killer for human beings and businesses. Taking time to proactively read the 'vital signs' of health provides protection and insight into ways to increase performance. 

The first place to reveal the health for the human body is a person’s blood. Health is essential for human growth and development, and the same is true for a business.

A blood test reveals four things:

Disease - What rogue elements are actively working against you with potentially critical consequences?

Conditions - What is reducing functionality and performance?

Function of organs - Are the key functions essential to good health working effectively?

Effectiveness of treatments - Have previous interventions rectified problems and resulted in good health?

So, what is the equivalent test for your company?

The answer: Conversations

Conversations are the blood-flow of an organisation; conversations taking place between leaders, managers, departments and external stakeholders. The conversa...

I know you have a message you want people to hear! 

Like a stick of rock that has a message through the middle of it, what we produce delivers a message. 

However the message we aim to deliver and the message that people feel can be at odds.

Mediocrity creates a dissonance between our message and our method. 

As an MVP who wants to rise to the top and deliver your impact and influence, building on a core value of excellence [the antithesis of mediocrity]  is ESSENTIAL! 

Mediocrity becomes an impediment that hijacks our message. [Listen more on the MVP podcast]

Key of Wisdom:🔑🔓

Revelation 3:15-16

I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. 

Get MAD! 😡

God is sickened by mediocrity because us hijacks the potential He has invested in us to impact this earth.

Challenge for today...make a promise to yourself or someone that is difficult to k...

What you call this season will define this season! Is the dream delayed…you need to hear this!

Are in a period of delay right now?

You may have been there for a long time in the period between when you conceived the idea, the dream the goal and actually being able to deliver on it; to see it become a reality.

If you’re in that period the delay then let me encourage you because it’s very easy to become discouraged. The delay can breed uncertainty and the unknown can lead to doubt.

It can be so easy to draw conclusions that ‘this is just never going to happen’, ‘it will never become a reality’. If we stay agree with this conclusion then it can lead us exiting prematurely.

Let’s face it, sometimes the pain of delay can be so great that the immediate thought of relieving that pain by exiting convinces us that the sense of immediate relief would be for the best.

The biblical proverb says

…hope deferred makes the heart sick…

…and when we are in that deferred period and we don't belie...

On the flip side of a problem is an opportunity for impact, influence and increase.

Let’s face it, the world isn’t short of problems right now.

For a hungry, high performing individual who believes there life can count this is the time to be awake and alert at the opportunities that are all around us.

The future promises much but will it find you ready?

A promise is a point in the future that we are believing will arrive. It is something that inspires hope, it excites and increases enthusiasm.

It does however require preparation. 

It requires us to make ourselves ready so that we are able and capable of taking hold of that promise.

Am I willing to pay the price?

Attached to preparation is a price!

There's a price to pay because there is a cost to every promise and very often we're very happy with the promise but not willing to pay the price.

In those moments we struggle to pay the price, to do the hard yards, to break through a pain barrier we need to generate greater clarity...

What change am I not processing?

At a time of high anxiety and uncertainty we tend to cling on to the things of life and business that we find security in. The problem…even those things are not certain and change proof.

However the one thing that brings anxiety and uncertainty to the surface is the one constant we can be certain of….change! 

Change reveals uncertainty but what if it could actually can be a source of certainty?

It is John Maxwell who said ‘Change is inevitable, growth is optional.’

When change happens we are often aware of the things we see change but unaware of how we are changed. This means that internally as individuals and even as companies/organisations we are playing catch up to a change that has already taken place.

Let me use the Covid 19 pandemic as an example. This was a HUGE change that happened to all of us. The biggest danger is that we gravitate toward ‘normality’ accepting that we’ve made adaptations to how we do things but not having processed wha...

If you are like me you are forever ‘losing’ something but realising that you either have it in your hand or your pocket. 🤦🏾‍♀️

This is not only true of our keys🔑 or phone📱 but solutions to problems the world needs that are businesses ready to go! 

Solutions too many of the worlds BIGGEST problems are already in existence but we haven't seen them yet. 

Where are they? 🤔

As human beings we have INCREDIBLE potential. 

Potential is in the heart of a person. The of spirit of mankind feeds the longing we have as human beings to BE MORE and DO MORE. We have the ability to to create wealth, solve problems, develop new ways of making progress and ultimately to transform society.  As powerful as this potential is it is often ‘corked’ up 🍾 inside of people. 

With almost 8 billion people now on this planet, think of what exists that we haven’t yet seen? 

How do we ‘uncork’ this potential?

It starts with YOU! 🫡

We need you to demonstrate what you are capable of because demonstration is the...

Ever get annoyed that you keep on doing what you don't want to do? 

Do others get frustrated because you repeatedly do what isn’t wanted or required? 

I have heard the phrase ‘if I’ve told you once I’ve told you twice’ on many occasions in my life. It is a frustration with habits that we automatically repeat without any conscious effort.  

As human beings we have strong defaults that we always revert back to unless we find a way of changing them. If we have a deep desire to change what the future looks like then we need to identify what we can do to shift those defaults If we keep on doing what we’ve always done then we will keep on getting what we’ve always had. 

The barrier I struggled to breakthrough

During episode 7 of the High Performance Disciple Podcast I share that for many years I have enjoyed communicating to audiences and have never struggled to do this. However when it came to speaking directly through social media I was hitting a barrier. When communicating to an audi...

 It's time to stop running away and run toward moments that make us 'feel' small!

The journey of personal growth requires us to face challenges that are intimidating.

We all face moments when what we are faced with makes us feel small. 

In episode 5 of the High Performance Disciple podcast I share about the moment I had to face my intimidation. I had an opportunity to visit the Shard in London with a view to potentially hiring some surplus office space. The opportunity looked disproportionate to my age and stage of journey and whether it was right to do it or not wasn’t the question. It was the challenge to see myself as worthy of the opportunity. 

Whilst I didn’t follow through on the offer it was a breakthrough moment in seeing myself differently that led to me moving my family to London and expanding the vision for our future.

The moments when we feel like running away from challenge or opportunity because they ‘make us’ feel small are the very challenges we need to run enthusi...

It’s time to build personal momentum

It was a cold December morning and we drove into the church car park. Leanne was already in the building and as I drove with the three children in the back of the car toward the rear of the car park I tried to brake and realised I couldn’t!

STOP THE CAR!

We were on BLACK ICE and at the bottom of the car park there was a dyke we were about to plunge down into.

I tried everything but nothing would slow the car down…it had momentum and I couldn’t stop it. I even opened the car door and tried to slow the car with my leg but bent my leg back against the curb.

Stupid idea I know but i ran out of ideas.

Thankfully the under body of the car caught the curb and this prevented the car tipping over and falling down into the dyke where ice water awaited.

That day I realised the power of momentum and its unstoppable nature.

When we don’t have personal momentum even the smallest challenges can seem to be too difficult. If we want to break through to the n...

‘Are you sure this is the right way?’ 

‘This doesn’t look familiar.’

I’m sure like me you’ve uttered those words on countless journey’s in the car or walking around a city. 

We associate the familiar with the right way. However does that stack up when it comes to the journey on route to seeing our vision become a reality?

When what you meet on route to your dream doesn’t match up with expectation the result can be confusion. 

Over the past several years both me and Leanne would have set planning days. A planning day sounds like it should be fun, like it should be about blue sky thinking and dreaming up new ideas, but for us it was painful. 

Why?

We both carried convictions but combined they felt like a contradiction and incompatible. So did one of us have it wrong? Based on our experience only one of us could be right. However, what was happening was the formation of a third way. A third way is an innovative new route that isn’t based on what we’ve seen but is birthed out of a t...