If you’re a leader, director, business owner, coach or manager right now, you’ll recognise this truth: Working harder is no longer the answer.And neither is attending another intensive course that gives you a temporary boost—only to return to the same pressures, habits, and overwhelm a few weeks later. Amy Jen Su, in The Leader You Want To Be, highlights that modern leadership isn’t about quick fixes or isolated learning moments. It’s about consistent evolution—developing self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and deliberate practice over time. It’s about aligning who you are with how you lead. And that’s exactly where traditional development programmes fall short. Why Intensive Courses Aren’t Enough: Most leadership training follows a familiar pattern: - A powerful 2–5 day course - A surge of insight and motivation - Then… back to reality Without ongoing structure, something critical is missing: - No accountability - No sustained practice - No real behaviour change Insight alone doesn’t create transformation. Leadership is a practice—not an event. What Today’s Leaders Actually Need: To become the leader you want to be, you need: 1. Continuous Coaching Because awareness is just the first step.Real growth happens when you are guided to: - Challenge your default thinking - Navigate pressure with clarity - Lead intentionally, not reactively 2. Accountability Without accountability, even the best intentions fade.You need structures that: - Keep you focused on what matters - Turn goals into consistent action - Prevent you slipping back into old patterns 3. Live Interaction & Feedback Leadership is relational. You don’t grow in isolation.You need: - Real-time feedback - Shared learning - The opportunity to test and refine your approach 4. Skill Application & Practice Knowing what to do isn’t enough you must: - Practise communication under pressure - Embed new behaviours - Rewire your responses

A brilliant day today with an incredible group of people. We walked, talked, coached, and connected in the Lake District — one of my favourite places to reset my mind and open up new perspectives. A few people asked me to share the simple framework I use every time I head out for a walk. It turns an ordinary walk into a powerful NLP‑infused reset. Feel free to use it on your next solo walk or group adventure. I’ll be organising another one in a few months, so keep an eye on the calendar and the posts here. Before I Start — Leaving the Baggage Behind What am I choosing to leave in the car park today? Stress? To‑do lists? Family pressures? Old stories? I like to pick up a small stone, imagine the “baggage” being absorbed into it, and then throw it into the lake or leave it behind. A symbolic pattern interrupt. As I Get Moving — Acknowledging a WIN What’s a recent win I haven’t properly acknowledged? Something I brushed past? Something I achieved but didn’t celebrate? If I’m with others, I talk it through. If I’m alone, I let it roll around in my mind. A moment of mindfulness. Intention for the Walk What clarity would I like to gain today? What question is quietly waiting for attention? If nothing comes to mind, I use one of the prompts below. Pick one or two to “chew on” as you walk if you need inspiration: • Advice you give clients — What do you regularly coach others on that you’re avoiding in your own life? • Playing it safe — Where are you currently choosing comfort over growth? • Radical simplification — If you had to simplify your life over the next 3 months, what would you cut? • Unlearning old beliefs — What outdated belief about yourself are you in the process of releasing? Towards the End — The Silent Stretch Around 20 minutes of silent walking. No talking. Just allowing the unconscious mind to wander, reorganise, and offer up insights. 💖 Lunch — Reflections Sharing insights with others or simply contemplating them myself. Is there anything else I’d like to gain accountability on?

Most people think NLP is about changing the way you talk to yourself, language patterns, changing your physiology, or changing one state. None of those are wrong, they're just incomplete. NLP goes deeper than that, into the internal programming, the patterns running underneath behavior, and physiology is one piece feeding into that programming, not the whole picture. Neuroscience is now backing this up directly, and the first lesson in Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain reframes a lot of what people assume change work is actually doing. The lesson is called "Your Brain Is Not for Thinking." The title is intentionally surprising. The core finding is that the brain's primary function isn't to think, reason, or solve problems. Its most important job is to manage your body's resources so you stay alive and healthy. The technical term for this is allostasis, the body budgeting nickname is just the accessible version of it, and once you see it, you realize NLP has been working with this mechanism since the beginning, just without the biology to explain why it works. State is simply the sum of your physiology and where your attention is focused in any given moment. It's easy to assume state is the target, get into a resourceful state and the work is done. But state isn't the target. State is the output. The allostasis or body budget concept names the engine that's actually generating it, which means the real work goes deeper than the state itself. It means changing the programming that decides what state a person defaults to before they've even thought a thought. Picture your body as a bank account. Sleep deposits into it. Good food deposits into it. Exercise builds the account over time. Stress, worry, illness, and lack of sleep withdraw from it. The brain is constantly tracking these deposits and withdrawals across energy, water, salt, glucose, hormones, and oxygen, predicting what the body will need next and trying to prepare for it before there's any conscious awareness of the need. This is the program running underneath every state someone walks into a room with. You can change the state for an afternoon. You can't out technique a depleted budget.

Hey everyone sorry I couldn't make it to the lab call today I was in transit back home

I just got in contact with a gentleman who has been working with one of the original founders of NLP. Back before it was called Neuro-Linguistic Programming, it was called Meta. Everybody attributes the creation of NLP to Richard Bandler and John Grinder, but those two would have never been successful in creating it without their first student and co-creator, the third and often hidden gem, Frank Pucelik, who was a Vietnam veteran suffering from the turmoil of being in combat and was one of the first to be transformed by NLP. P.S. Still looking to practice some of the advanced processes that I am learning with anybody who is willing, before I go back to my day job. Hit me up. https://youtu.be/XFAULwn5mNM?si=LDtCixf1O1oqkHG4