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16/06/2026

It Takes Two…

Okay, not the most glamorous couple of pictures that you will ever see of me, but that’s not the point.

Why Two Pictures? Isn’t one enough?

This is about collaboration, working with yourself or someone else to make a change. Why stop at 2 people, we can collaborate with 3,5, 10 or even hundreds of people when we need to.

Today though, I’m focusing on two.

My weight loss journey has been so much easier with Mrs S on it with me, supporting with good food choices and joining me on the 5k walks in the evening. We’ve been chatting and it’s been great for both of us and our mental health. Thank you ❤️

But there has also been a collaboration personally with my own self through this journey. Doing the evening runs are great, but I need the daytime version of me to make the right decisions too. What I am fuelling myself with in my work day, staying disciplined and keeping my mind focused on what evening Rich needs from me. Without these choices, my evening runs will be harder and not so easy to sustain. I am grateful for the decisions I make to support this.

There’s a lot of collaborations that we have in our work and home life. Make sure you are taking the time to appreciate those who collaborate with you, including yourself.

Want to make a difference, start today. And don’t forget to thank those who support you.

12/06/2026

Shh! Can I Tell You A Secret?

Ignore the old scruffy top today and, yes that was a Watford badge on there a long time ago. It was today’s running attire and it was clearly comfort over style.

Today’s run felt easier, easier to motivate myself for, easier on the body and easier to recover from. If anything that just shows the consistency of doing what we can every day.

The consistency of fuelling myself right and turning up on the days that I really didn’t want to. The pay offs might be small but every one is significant.

The secret I wanted to tell you is that I have now been able to complete 3 consecutive runs for 20 minutes over the last 3 days and I am feeling proud with it.

That doesn’t mean that we have stopped with the 6 minutes running, as this is still vital for building power and drive in the runs, and making sure that when all I can manage is a 6 minutes run that it will be enough.

You might have days when you achieve a mountain climb with work and life achievements, and then on some days getting a small, but important and significant piece might be all you can do.

But…both are just as important in the grand scheme of things. And neither should be excused as doing too much or not enough.

Your best is enough for anybody. Have a great weekend! 😀💪

11/06/2026

I Know What You Are Thinking.

Another day and another same style selfie.

I wish I had the ability to post as I ran but after focusing on my breathing, making sure I don’t fall over and trying to keep my safe from any traffic on the roads, it’s probably safer that I don’t.

I know what you are thinking. Is he just posting the same selfie and just changing the hoodie? You’d think so, but I am not that good at forward thinking.

Today though, was a day that I relied on someone else to give me that push. A busy day at work, later finish (it was planned that way) and I said the words, ‘I don’t think I’ll run tonight’. Mrs S, who is poorly today and hasn’t been able to join me on walks for the past couple of days said, ‘Why not! What is stopping you going for a run?’

And that was enough. I dug out the blue hoodie and off I went on another adventure. The apps worked, but not that it mattered today. Every step was one that I nearly didn’t do.

I know yesterday I said I would stop the negative talk, and I don’t believe today was negative in its thinking of not running. But, a good reminder why we need people on our team that say, Go For It!

10/06/2026

What Would You Believe?

Tonight’s run was interesting and it taught me a valuable lesson at the end.

Over the years I have used a couple of running apps because there is nothing worse than one crashing halfway through and not tracking the whole run, leaving you unfulfilled of the event that you still actually completed.

Now I use Strava and Nike Run Club when I complete any runs.

Tonight it was Stravas turn to switch off. I don’t know why, the rain, my pocket being knocked and pausing it. We will never know, but Nike Run Club kept going and so did I.

At the end of the run, one told me I had completed a mile (1.6km) and the other told me 3km (just under 2 miles) with different times as well.

What it taught me wasn’t not to trust technology, but if I had took the result from the Strava, I would have potentially disappointed, frustrated by the result on the screen. Undoing all the positivity of what I had completed and achieved.

It was how I saw the result that impacted what I have done on a screen, not measured any other way or the reality of the hard work that I had put it.

Don’t let one metric tell your own story. Believe and see what you have actually delivered. Be proud of the achievement and the work that you have put into something.

We could all feel we could do better when results don’t go our way, but keep going and the long term results will also speak for themselves.

Trust Yourself.

09/06/2026

I. Give. Up.

There I said it…

When I started this diet and fitness journey, I knew there would be tough days. I knew there would be days when I felt like giving up.

But they haven’t yet? So, we keep going, we keep encouraging ourselves, encouraging others, and we are loving every minute of it.

Sure, there will be set backs. There will be injuries.
There will be bad days. Days where I don’t want to run. But we face these head on, we don’t back down and we come back with the same positive attitude that we started with. Even if we may need others to remind us to.

Oh yeah, I said I give up. That’s right! I am giving up writing negative posts and giving up on the negative self talk. It gets you nowhere.

05/06/2026

Discipline. Key. Tonight

No walk tonight with Mrs S 😭, so I had the choice of no run or run. But I decided to do it different.

I have been enjoying the 6 minute runs, but without a walk I set myself a new challenge. Not about pace, time or anything else. Could I comfortably run for 20 minutes tonight? It took mindfulness to be aware of not running faster, getting over confident.

Just simply…run at a comfortable pace for 20 minutes. And it taught me a lot.

After a while, my mind told me to turn into hills, it told me to take that extra lap, it did a lot of the work for me. And that is important.

When we first start dieting we call it the battle against our mind for the will power. And to a degree in those early days, maybe it is telling yourself not to do things.

But remember, we have been coaching our minds since we got on this planet, telling it what we want and after a while, it does it without being told. It saves us time.

So, when we turn it on to good things, it will start helping with the right decisions, releasing energy to help you with a task. Work with you.

Mental fitness isn’t you against your mind, it’s about coaching yourself the right way to make the right decisions become habits, become permanent.

You’ve got this! 👍💪

On a side note, we have dinner tonight with our great friends, so discipline will definitely be key tonight, especially with the dessert menu 🤣

03/06/2026

Listen to what you are telling yourself…

Recently, I have been talking negatively to myself about my achievements, putting down what has actually been a success, doubting my credibility in actions.

Stop.

Today I was sent these words by a friend, a critical friend who called me out every time I said I could have done something better. Everytime my enough was enough, but I couldn’t see it.

Tonight I have run faster, better, stronger than previous. My diet and health is all moving in the right directions, fuelled by myself and the people I have around me, willing me on and being critical friends.

Was it coincidence this all happened today?

Maybe. You can tell yourself anything, but if you put the positive out there and work with the best you have for effort and commitment, maybe you will achieve more and more at every opportunity.

I am grateful to my wife, children, family and friends. I am grateful to myself, for trying to be better every day, and being good enough today.

30/05/2026

Jake meeting at for Collectamania today.

What an absolutely gent, Jake was really nervous but Mathew made time to talk to him about his favourite characters. Jake was overwhelmed when he walked away, but it was lovely to have such a positive interaction to help his confidence.

28/05/2026

Never. Too. Late

Another story I told myself was that it was too late to go out for a run. Too late to start the diet. Too late to change any habits.

So running tonight until 9:50pm, in the dark, was the best way that I could tell these stories were wrong. At over 40 it was too late to make changes, too late to change my diet, improve my sleep, reduce my fatigue.

Today is another day of proving myself right, not in the storytelling, but making positive changes and building strong habits.

It’s never too late to make a positive change.

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