We were asked to give a Wellness talk on last month to a brilliantly raucous group of Supermarket management staff. The Q&A session at the end was, as usual,  the best bit – we were in actual tears of laughter at one point (who knew that you could get an entire room of smartly dressed… Read More >

Years ago we covered the kitchen with stick on white boards. It was a business plan of magnificent beauty. All very detailed and intricate, with intersecting arrows and if this, then thatand so on. Special stationery was procured from Rymans. There were many iterations. And back to the drawing board-s. The fact was – much of it was… Read More >

Kaizen is a Japanese system or philosophy used in billion dollar businesses for successful change. But it is also seen as the wise (and best) way to make changes in your life Kaizen says you shouldn’t make sudden changes but to make them slowly, wisely and continuously. This makes them permanent. Many of our efforts to change (like New Year’s Resolutions)… Read More >

2 full bags of Sainsbury’s shopping and a particularly biting wind PLUS by trying to remember where on earth I parked the car yesterday, all contributed what was, in hindsight –  a serious face. This was helpfully pointed out to be by a chap changing a large sign outside the store in the form of… Read More >

Somewhere between 35 and 45 something happens You find yourself in the car listening to the radio and really enjoying the station and then realise that actually you are really enjoying listening to Radio 2. Almost simultaneously, you realise; that you don’t recognise a lot of the artists on Radio 1, the presenters seem awfully young… Read More >

It’s true. If you’ve got teeny children – you have got even more of a head-start with this – but it’s actually useful for all ages. Let’s start with the bad news: Children of smokers are twice as likely to smoke as their parents. Even when the parents say “filthy habit, I hate it – never do it,… Read More >

(by way of mildly funny example), that one October Monday we started creating a product. I suggested we try to get it finished by Friday… she confessed she had been thinking ‘mid-Spring’. I underestimate how long things will take. She overestimates them. We thrash it out and arrive at a realistic schedule. My zone of genius is not remembering… Read More >