After 40 years working on high performing teams, I'm convinced that the successful folk are those who in the words of Abraham Maslow, "choose to step forward towards growth rather than back towards safety"

Whilst personal time to reflect and recover in a safe psychological space is vital to support wellbeing, growth is impossible without spending some time feeling uncomfortable. The World is a tough place to live, every behaviour is under scrutiny and these days, it seems that it is all recorded on a phone or tablet somewhere!  

As my own physical and mental 'close to the edge' experiences start to reduce, I'm convinced that Stoicism should be the guiding light! I'm also set on passing on my learnings to support and encourage others to grasp the nettle..........

My mantra, to learn something new every day still applies, even as I enter my sixth decade!

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

                                                                                     Theodore Roosevelt