It was a real pleasure connecting with so many wonderful people in 2023, I am personally very grateful for the support given last year as we moved Doing Well Doing Good (DWDG) to connect organisational business strategy with social value growth (SVG) and wellbeing. That said, there are clear signs of stress around the world. Aside from the continuing conflicts, lack of compassion and increasingly a famine of meaningful connection, a billion people still go to bed hungry and

Very proud of our team at Phoenix Martial Arts in Croydon as we have been named by adidas as the Super League Kickboxing Team of the Year 2023. Everyone has fought hard all year in training and competitions to become the gold standard in Super League Kickboxing by having collectively achieved incredible results together. Adversity calls forth the souls’ courage to bear unflinchingly whatever heaven sends. This is not just a team, we are a family in a community with an amazin

The Positive Transformation Initiative (PTI) is relentlessly focused on helping us all help each other find ways to do more and be more for ourselves and in society. PTI focuses on identifying wonderfully inspiring projects wherever they may be and connecting them to the people, resources and funding that widen impact through collaboration, intentionally creating engaging collaborations that enable brighter better futures for humanity. PTI is the driving force behind The

We may never have a perfect world, yet it is not a romantic or naïve ideal to work toward a better one, trying to be more and do more every day, helping and supporting others to do the same. Happy Friday to you! 😊 I would like to provide a short note with three things that hopefully INSPIRE us to CONNECT and ENGAGE each other in developing trusted relationships that foster reciprocity. The greatest gift one person a can give to another is to INSPIRE a deeper understanding

As we evolve this as a place for us all to share wisdom from the great thinkers across thousands of years, Marcus Aurelius to the modern day. Today we are with the great Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his book Meditations, one of my personal all time favourites. Marcus lived over 2000 years ago ruling over an unimaginable kingdom and facing challenges far beyond what any of us could or would ever be able to comprehend. During this time he wrote personal meditations for him

I know a thing or two about winning, equally I know a lot about failing, the importance of failing to learn, and the greater importance of learning to fail. This is about translating every challenge into an opportunity and turning shit to sugar in life no matter what the circumstances. Ultimately unless the resulting impact is death, everything else is psychological and this today is all about the importance of knowing that, and knowing to never back down in pursuit of your g

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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°