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To perform at your best, be you.
I really enjoyed listening to a short conversation yesterday with a wonderful guy I have known for many years Dean Curtis . I woke up this morning to write this short note with an intention to lean into his inspiring example, with a hope to connect you to Dean in an engaging way. I believe in sharing stories that Inspire Connection and Engagement , supporting everyone on their journey to Be Relentless Being You. And so today, Dean Curtis. Dean is the CEO of RELX a very la
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Oct 18, 20235 min read


Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls. Be misunderstood.
While contemplating the universe, life, reality, the meaning of existence and other things of that nature, I found myself reading a collection of philosophical notes which included a beautiful summary of Daylight by Rumi. Aside from the delectable stylings of many great thinkers linked in these cherished notes, I found myself hanging off the beautifully poetic words shared by Ralph Waldo Emerson in his brilliant essay Self-Reliance. “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of
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Oct 15, 20235 min read


What a great bloke. A true "Ripper"!
Masterpiece days are so much easier to create when you have the help and support of wonderful people, those individuals who have a natural inclination to help others Do Well and Do Good. Today I want to recognise and celebrate Gareth Hardy as just such a person. Gareth I have known you for many years and you are without question a top bloke, not just a top bloke, you are a Ripper! Allow me to say you are such an inspirational character who has built a wonderful life of succe
danbrown119
Oct 13, 20234 min read


Who do you really want to be?
7 years ago, I asked myself this one simple question and the answers that came to me were the powerful catalyst that led me into my own journey of personal positive transformation. Honestly asking this one simple question is likely the single most powerful way to start every day on any journey of change and transformation. So, who do you really want to be? This is not what your family, friends and everyone else might want you to be with all their well-meaning complex set of e
danbrown119
Oct 8, 20234 min read


Stabbed 7 times and dedicated to saving the lives of our children.
I am relentlessly committed to helping us all help each other by telling personal stories from our own journeys of Positive Transformation, supporting and inspiring others to do more and be more through powerful connection. This is all about how we positively transform a billion lives in the next decade, and while that may seem ambitious I believe this. "Very simply, there is nothing more powerful than a changed mind, when we can change one mind we positively transform one li
danbrown119
Oct 6, 20233 min read


Time to break the silence.
Yasmin Barnard talks about the desperate and immediate need to turn our attention to the "invisible" struggles faced by tens of thousands of vulnerable girls in England. This follows a recent report by the Commission on Young Lives and Manchester Metropolitan University casting light on a distressing reality - girls who find themselves ensnared in gangs, victims of violence and exploitation, are yet often unnoticed, overlooked, and unheard. Imagine the story of Asha, a young
danbrown119
Oct 5, 20233 min read


A personal introduction.
Firstly hello and welcome! I believe that being candid and authentic is key to thriving in the world and this is a place where I will always be myself and hope that by celebrating my own personality, sense of humour, and heart, I can provide others with the freedom to do the same. My goal here is to provide a simple gateway to knowledge that expands human consciousness, delivered in bite size chunks with a humorous twist, for people who want to better understand themselves, l
danbrown119
Oct 4, 20233 min read


I got my arse kicked yesterday…
Committed to a Masterpiece Day, every day. I’m ok, although my spirit was a little bruised. I've always been a fighter but not in the literal sense. I've battled life's hardest of challenges and yet none of them felt quite the same as being in the ring facing a real opponent, throwing punches and kicks to win. I started kickboxing a month or so ago. To get in better shape I decided to knock the smoking habit (three weeks strong!) and ditch the greasy cheeseburgers thinking I
danbrown119
Oct 3, 20234 min read


Igniting Positive Change
Yasmin Barnard talks about the power of creating the space to think differently in our efforts to ignite positive change and transformation with The Club of Doing Well Doing Good. How do we positively transform a billion lives in the next decade? Very simply, there is nothing more powerful than a changed mind, so if we can change one mind, we can positively transform one life. One becomes two, two becomes four and exponentially compounded growth becomes a billion lives fast
danbrown119
Oct 2, 20233 min read


Turning up the heat on your dreams.
Committed to a Masterpiece Day, every day. A dream is not some sort of comfy pillow to wish on while staring at vision board, they are hard to start, harder to work through, and they do not become reality with magic; it takes faith, discipline, sweat, determination, a great team, supportive family, lots of hard work and ultimately it's all about finding an extra 1% daily, that extra degree in everything we do. Sam Parker and Mac Anderson put it like this in their book "212°
danbrown119
Oct 2, 20232 min read


Being a pig in shit
Committed to a Masterpiece Day, every day. There is so much wisdom available from the great thinkers across thousands of years that has been so helpful to me. In the coming months I will be breaking it all down into bite size chunks like this each day. Free and available to anyone who enjoys it. Very simply, there is nothing more powerful than a changed mind, so if we can change one mind, we can positively transform one life. One becomes two, two becomes four and exponentiall
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Oct 1, 20234 min read


A wonderful human with amazing shoes, and an OBE!
Andrew van Doorn OBE (Drew) is a wonderful human supporting amazing projects across the UK and internationally. I consider it a personal privilege to have the opportunity to be working with such a brilliant person and his team at HACT as we all move forward creating opportunities with The Club of Doing Well Doing Good that enables positive transformation. For those of you have not yet met with or worked with Drew he continues to be a guiding light working tirelessly for 3
danbrown119
Sep 29, 20234 min read


Affirmations are not going to cut it.
Committed to a Masterpiece Day, every day. Dreams may be hard and improbable that's fair, although when you reject the idea of fear, fair, hard, and all other unhelpful emotions by facing down the improbable, soon those improbable dreams become possible, and soon after that they become inevitable. Going from being worried about what might happen to being excited about what might happen is only a simple mind shift away, a mind shift that makes every situation in life an advent
danbrown119
Sep 29, 20232 min read


My life is my message.
Real change, transformation and self mastery is a daily life long process of Inner Engineering, it isn't for those who say they need it, it is only for those who want it so badly they demand it of themselves every day. The power to change for those who demand it from within becomes an absolute MUST in everything they do, not a nice to have when they feel like it, they are prepared to endure endless failures on the road to positive transformation through a force of will demons
danbrown119
Sep 28, 20231 min read


Absolute Personal Responsibility.
Woke up late feeling like my friend here, not at my most friendly and like someone has beaten me with sticks, run me over, experimented on me in a lab, given me some horrible virus and then sucked all of the positive right out of me with a large industrial positive energy sucking machine. The response. "Good". An opportunity to get up and do it all anyway, while observing my own irritation, and practising how to be better at not projecting those feelings on to others. Remindi
danbrown119
Sep 28, 20231 min read


Fear nobody, dread nothing, and all will be well.
The fruit of everything good in life is found in the challenge of navigating storms, and I love the storms! What's the point of winning without a fight? Where is the fun in that? Where's the growth? Where's the comfort in comfort without feeling the discomfort first? With everything I do in life generally, and with a few weeks to my first taste of international competition, I know this. No matter what I go through I know one thing for absolute sure, that soon, the thing or th
danbrown119
Sep 28, 20232 min read
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