Heading To Edinburgh Today... I love the train journey from Peterborough and will be enjoying the journey with a mate of 30years Jonathan Rons then a lunch with the amazing Sandy Wilkie at the rooftop bar of the new W Hotel Then This Evening… Joined By Andrew Donnelly Andy Clark Jonathan James Ian Brent For The Auld Enemy Dinner 2026... Ahead Of England v Scotland On Saturday. Rivalry On The Pitch. Respect In The Room. May The Best Team Win. But More Importantly… May The Giving Be Generous. Raising Serious Money To Light Up Three Incredible Charities: • The Clocktower Foundation Supporting Injured SAS Members And The Families Of Fallen Soldiers. • My Name’5 Doddie Helping Those Affected By Motor Neuron Disease. • Seamab Providing Specialist Care And Education For Children Across Scotland With Complex Needs. My Name'5 Doddie Foundation THE CLOCKTOWER FOUNDATION SEAMAB

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...Because sometimes the unexpected happens. ...and sometimes life can change in a split second. The attached photo popped up in my iPhone timeline this week. It’s from about 10 years ago. I twisted in my car reaching for something on the back seat: That was it.... Ruptured a disc. C7. Within 24 hours: → No feeling in my arm → Extreme nerve pain → My arm rapidly becoming paralysed One awkward movement. We walk around assuming stability. Business is ticking. Cash is flowing. Team is “fine”. Family is provided for. Until it isn’t. We plan for growth. We plan for profit. We rarely plan for the cut. What happens to your business if you are not there tomorrow? Not on holiday. Not on a strategy day. Gone from operations. What happens to your income if you lose capability? Not dead: Disabled. Still here. Still responsible. Would your family be secure? Or exposed? Would your team cope? Or collapse? Would your clients stay? Or drift? You do not need to live in fear. But living ill prepared is not bravery. It is avoidance. I have friends whose lives changed overnight: Accidents. Operations. One phone call. Everything different. If you disappeared from your business for 90 days, What breaks first? That answer tells you exactly where you are fragile. Cutthroat mentoring is not about being ruthless with people. It is about being ruthless with risk. Success is about systems and great people. Even if you can rely on yourself, You should never only have yourself to rely on.

Two very different men. Two very different legacies. One powerful business lesson. On this day in 1847, Thomas Edison was born. In 1990, Nelson Mandela walked free after 27 years in prison. One represents invention. Practical genius. Relentless experimentation. The other represents resilience. Endurance. Justice delayed, but not denied. Most entrepreneurs want to be Edison: They want the ideas. The spark. The breakthrough. The next product. The next system. The clever move. But very few are willing to be Mandela: To endure. To stay consistent when results are invisible. To keep the faith when recognition is nowhere in sight. To do the right thing when shortcuts would be easier. Business is not built on invention alone. It is built on invention plus resilience. Ideas get attention. Resilience gets outcomes. You can have the best model in the world, but if you quit in year three, it does not matter. You can have average ideas, but if you persist intelligently for ten years, you win. Innovation gets you in the game. Resilience keeps you there long enough to compound. So the question is simple. Are you trying to be clever? Or are you building the kind of character that can outlast the cycle? Because in business, delayed justice is normal. Keep building. Keep refining. Keep showing up. The combination of invention and resilience is unstoppable.

It is just another Saturday: No deadlines. No pressure. No one watching. Or is there? If the person you love most Son. Daughter. Partner. Was watching how you live today. If this was a fly on the wall documentary Filming every hour. Would they be impressed? Your work ethic. Your focus. Your discipline. The way you treat people. The way you treat yourself. Most people only perform when someone is watching. Growth is built when no one is. You do not have a time problem. You have a priority problem. So do one thing today. One thing that changes next week. One thing that improves a relationship. One thing your future self would thank you for. Send a message. Have a difficult conversation. Do the quiet work you keep avoiding. Or do nothing. And let it be just another Saturday. Choice is yours. Have a Great Weekend 👊