PinnedCoaching Is Very DifficultYou can do everything right and still lose, and that was the big feeling I got when I watched Manchester United beat Arsenal yesterday in the English Premier League. It was a brilliant, pulsating game in which Mikel Arteta and Arsenal did so many things right, but the only problem…Life4 min readLife4 min read
2 days agoAnother Chance To ShineAnother day, another chance to shine. Let’s get it, let’s really get it. I want to be great and I want to be the best that I can be. I want to join the gods. My actions must align with that, I am really trying my best but it’s not…Personal Development2 min readPersonal Development2 min read
Jan 30Thank You God For EverythingMan, thank you God, for everything. Thank you for being there for me, for guiding and always shining your light on me. This life is long and it is difficult. Much respect and praise to those who are doing it big and who have consistently achieved big things — Barack…Life2 min readLife2 min read
Jan 23Just Train and Be ConsistentOne mistake we make when it comes to training is that we want to do too much. Often when we start we are excited and we go overboard and end up breaking our bodies. This is a great paradox of training, in my opinion. …Exercise3 min readExercise3 min read
Jan 16A New YearA new year is always fresh and is a perfect chance to start again and start well. That is what new years are for. So far it has been a good and positive start to the year. I just have to maintain the positive steps and my concentration through the year. There are 52 weeks in a year and we are in Week 3 now. So, there is plenty of time to go and that gives us a chance go week-by-week: make every week count and keep track of our progress as the days and weeks go by.New Year1 min readNew Year1 min read
Jan 9RePost: Losing To Win“Losing is part of the game. If you never lose, you are never truly tested, and never forced to grow.” — David Sirlin, Playing to Win: Becoming the Champion I am currently part of a team and it seems we are always losing. Three times over the past year we…Perspective4 min readPerspective4 min read
Nov 7, 2022Keep Going, No Matter WhatKeep pushing to move forward. Keep learning. There are many things that I thought I knew but I really didn’t know. That is the biggest lesson of life, that is why these days I try to reserve judgment. When you are young you say ‘I would never do this or that’ / ‘this or that could never happen to me’. But life tends to teach you otherwise. 19 July 2022Personal Thoughts1 min readPersonal Thoughts1 min read
Oct 3, 2022Fitness | The Key To EverythingI was thinking of the fundamental importance of fitness in sport the other day and then I remembered this: an extract from my Boxing Chronicles, a compilation of notes I have put together over the past year. “You can’t build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have…Life3 min readLife3 min read
Sep 26, 2022Champions Work Through PainPain and injuries are par for the course for any athlete and this is an understanding one comes to have. There is a quote that stayed with me. I heard it some years back and things imparted into you at early age tend to stay with you longest. In an…Life3 min readLife3 min read
Sep 19, 2022100% is better than 99%I came across an interesting idea last week: 100% is better than 99%, or as Jack Canfield puts it in his book, The Success Principles, “99% is a b*tch and 100% is a breeze”. The idea struck a chord with me. How many of us make commitments but are unable…Life3 min readLife3 min read
