Day 2030 of a daily barefoot-style running streak. 20,300km into a 40,075km mission — a lap of the world on foot to raise £1 million for children's causes including Great Ormond Street and BBC Children in Need.

Today on the run I talked about vision boards. Not the kind that get pinned to a cork board and forgotten, but the kind that work quietly in the background of your daily life, keeping your goals visible when everything else is competing for your attention.

Most of us can plan. Fewer of us take the extra step of visualising what we are planning toward. That gap is where progress gets lost. A vision board, placed somewhere you encounter it every single day without making a deliberate effort, creates a consistent reference point between where you are and where you are trying to go.

I have been doing this for around six months. In that time, across work, lifestyle, and personal goals, we have hit pretty much everything we set out to achieve. I am not overstating what a vision board does. But I am saying it helped. And for something that takes very little time to create, that return is worth the effort.

19,775km still to go. The board reminds me why.

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This is episode 2,029 of a daily run vlog and podcast that forms part of something much bigger — a barefoot-style attempt to cover 40,075km, the circumference of the world, and raise £1 million for children's causes including Great Ormond Street Hospital and BBC Children in Need. I am 20,290km in, with 19,785km still ahead.

Today I talk about something I have been working on quietly over the past twelve months. Negativity — specifically the two emotions I think do the most damage to daily thinking — hatred and jealousy. I am not speaking from a position of having this sorted. I speak from personal experience of finding myself reacting to other people's success in ways I was not proud of, or carrying resentment towards people who had hurt me long after the event had passed.

The reframes I share here are simple. Replace hatred with genuine compassion — not to excuse behaviour, but to release yourself from the weight of carrying that emotion forward. Replace jealousy with admiration and refocus — because wishing someone else had less never moves you forward. These two shifts have genuinely changed the quality of my thinking, and over 2,029 consecutive days, the quality of your thinking matters.

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Day 2028. 20,280km into my barefoot-style running streak toward 40,075km — a full lap of the world — raising £1 million for children's causes.

Today's episode is about humility. Specifically, what happens when success strips it away.

I've known people who built extraordinary things from nothing. Good people. And I've watched success quietly change them — not all at once, but gradually. New circles. Old friends dropped. The assumption that the climb would just continue. And then, when things went wrong, they found themselves more isolated than they'd realised.

What I've learned — both from watching others and from my own highs and lows — is that the people who matter most are often the ones you're most at risk of taking for granted when things are going well. The scrutiny you apply to yourself during the hard times is exactly what you need to maintain during the good ones. That discipline of self-reflection doesn't come naturally when everything's working. You have to choose it.

This daily run is part of that practice for me. 2028 consecutive days. 19,795km still to go. No shortcuts. No days off. Not because it's easy, but because that's what the commitment looks like.

Help us reach £1 million for children who need it. Links in the show notes.

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Day 2027 of a daily running streak that has now covered 20,270km toward a full lap of the world — barefoot style — as part of a fundraising mission for children's causes.

In today's episode I share the one-page strategic planning framework I have developed over the years from real experience building and operating businesses. It draws on ideas from authors and business leaders I respect, but I have refined it into something that fits on a single page and can be reviewed every quarter without it becoming a burden.

The framework works in two parts. The first focuses on outcomes — who you are serving, what you are offering, how you deliver it, and what makes it worth choosing. The second focuses on time — looking nine years ahead, then three, then one, with no more than three measurables at each level to keep things trackable.

The honest message is this: the first time you do it, it will not be perfect. That is fine. The value comes from doing it quarterly, adjusting it, and letting it sharpen over time. I have applied exactly this thinking to the 40,075km mission and the goal of raising £1M for children's causes. It is not a theory. It is what I actually use.

If this is useful to you, share it with someone who needs it.

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I'm on day 2026 of consecutive daily running and in today's episode I sit with a question that comes up more often than people might expect: how do you actually know when a running streak is truly established?

It's a more nuanced question than it first appears. Thirty days is real. A year is significant. A thousand days is a serious achievement. But I share the personal benchmark I use — whether your consecutive day count has moved ahead of the calendar year you're currently in — and why I think that marker places you in the top one percent of streak runners.

I also talk honestly about what keeps a long streak alive. It isn't motivation. It isn't having good days. It's the kind of deep, settled commitment where stopping requires more mental effort than continuing. I've run through a broken foot. I haven't stopped. Not because I'm reckless, but because this streak is tied to something that matters more than comfort.

At 20,260 kilometres completed, with 19,815 still ahead of me on a lap of the world in barefoot-style footwear, this mission — raising £1 million for children's causes — is the reason I go out every single day.

If you're building a streak of your own, this one is for you.

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Tonight I made an avoidable mistake. I was running somewhere unfamiliar, I was in a rush, and I skipped the route planning I normally do without thinking. The result was a recovery run along an unlit country lane — no footpath, no lighting, cars passing close enough that I had to keep stepping onto the verge. Over 20,250km into my barefoot-style lap of the world and I still managed to create an unnecessary risk for myself.

In this episode I talk through how to run safely in the dark. Stick to routes you know. Plan carefully using apps like Footpath and Strava's route features. Carry a light — head torch, chest torch, something visible from behind. Wear kit that catches and reflects light. And run in daylight whenever you have the choice.

The streak is 2025 days long. The goal is 40,075km. The mission is to raise £1 million for Great Ormond Street and BBC Children in Need. None of that works if I am not running safely. Tonight was a small reminder of something I already knew but did not apply. Preparation and consistency belong together, and this episode is about making sure they do.

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Today is day 2024 of my consecutive daily running streak, and I have covered 20,240km in barefoot-style footwear on my way to completing 40,075km — the equivalent of one full lap of the earth — in support of raising £1 million for children's causes including Great Ormond Street Hospital and BBC Children in Need.

In today's episode I talk about something that genuinely works for me when procrastination sets in — and it is not what most people would expect. I use puzzle games. Not as an escape and not as a way to avoid the work. I use them as a structured, time-limited mental reset. A contained puzzle with a clear start and end gives me a brief break that keeps my brain engaged without pulling me fully out of my working day. Somewhere between one and four puzzles — around five to twenty minutes — is usually enough for me to return to whatever I was avoiding and actually get on with it.

The broader lesson here is one I return to constantly in this streak and in this mission. Consistency is not about never struggling. It is about having a system and a response ready for when the struggle arrives. Procrastination is a signal, not a permanent state. And how you respond to it is a skill you can build.

If this connects with you, follow the podcast, share it with someone who needs to hear it, and if you are able to support the fundraising mission for the children we run for, the details are in the show notes.

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I am on Day 2023 of my daily running streak, 20,230km into a 40,075km mission to raise £1 million for children's causes. Today I reflect on something that came out of an unlikely place — a village pool tournament.

I was not the best player in the room. But I ended up winning. The reason was not skill. It was a simple question I asked myself before every shot: what is the percentage probability that this has a positive outcome? If the answer was 51% or better in my favour, I played it. If not, I played defensively.

That same question sits at the heart of the decision-making framework I have built for my teams at Operations Director and Runpreneur, and it is something I apply to the daily decision to go out and run regardless of how I feel.

The insight is not complex. Consistently making decisions where the odds are just slightly in your favour, hundreds of times over days and weeks and years, compounds into a meaningfully different trajectory. It is not dramatic. It does not feel significant in the moment. But it adds up.

19,845km still to go. One decision at a time.

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I am 20,220km into a barefoot-style daily running streak that will cover 40,075km — the full circumference of the Earth — in aid of raising £1 million for children's causes including Great Ormond Street Hospital and BBC Children in Need.

Today's episode is not about running performance or business. It is about parenting. Specifically, about the pattern I have fallen into on the sideline watching my three children compete in football — and how my well-intentioned over-coaching from the stands has been having the wrong effect.

My nickname growing up was Competitor. That has driven a lot of good things in my life. But my children are not wired the way I am, and what works as self-motivation for me does not translate into how I should be showing up for them on a Saturday morning. I talk through what I noticed, what I am committing to change, and why creating space for enjoyment matters more than any instruction I could shout from the touchline.

If you are a parent watching a child compete, I think there is something useful here. Tune in, share it with someone who might need to hear it, and if the mission resonates, support it.

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Today is day 2021 of my consecutive daily running streak. I have now covered 20,210 kilometres of a 40,075km mission to lap the world on foot, raising £1 million for children's causes along the way.

In today's episode I talk about something that has genuinely changed how I run my businesses: the difference between custom GPTs and projects inside ChatGPT, and how to use both of them to maximum effect.

Projects are workspaces. They hold large amounts of information, they are shared internally with your team, and they build context and memory over time. I use one to store all of my standard operating procedures, which my team can access and query at any point.

Custom GPTs are tools. They are designed for specific, repeatable tasks and can be shared externally via a simple link. I use one to produce SOPs in a consistent format without starting from scratch each time.

Neither works as well as it should without a master prompt — a foundational document that gives your AI real context about who you are, what you do, and how you work. I explain how to build one using the AI itself.

I am still learning this as I go. But understanding this distinction has made a measurable difference to my output, and I think it will for you too.

One kilometre. One episode. One day at a time.

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