Listen to one of my favourite quotes, an excerpt from a Theodore Roosevelt speech that he gave in Sorbonne Paris.

This quote has inspired me for many years. It first resonated deeply when I failed to get to win a race to the magnetic North Pole. I was racing with a team 350 miles across the Arctic and I had a blister and I ended up with Septicemia and I had to pull out.

When the mind is quiet, when the mind has space - it works better. It reflects better. It comes up with more and better ideas. It enables you to be considered in all that you're doing, to be more conscious in the choices you're making.

Lewis went through our Unbounded Quality of Mind programme and as a result has had significant realisations.

In this intelligent and honest interview, Lewis explains how an understanding of QoM has had a direct impact on three major elements of his life

I reflected a lot over the new year, reflected a lot on where I was and what I wanted and my intentions and my dreams. And then yesterday it hit me. The realisation that I'm 53 years old.

What is the deepest thinking that is holding you back? I mean, the deepest paradigms that are limiting you. It's like a vein of thinking that keeps repeating itself, a frustration that keeps recurring, or a feeling in the body of edginess that seems to just recur.

A happy 2023, is not so much about what you do this coming year, it's more how & what you think.

Here are some classic and useful questions to reflect on your 2022 and think about the year ahead.

We invite you to find some time and space for quality reflection.

When we release ourselves from the grip of our thinking. We let go of the fear about if we'll succeed; we drop the insecurity worrying about what others think; we move out of the comfort of the easy option. When we let all of this go, we begin to access the full power of the mind and of what it is to be a human.

Your mind has a fundamental impact on everything that you think, feel, and do in life & work.

If the mind is working well, you experience a life with ease and flow.
If the mind is struggling, you experience a life of stress & difficulty.

Previously shared on LinkedIn, Martin talks about coaching Ashley on her daunting Robben Island swim and the observations from their time together.

What might be holding you back from your own Robben Island swim?

Listen to a short gratitude practice led by Martin Palethorpe.

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