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It’s been a weekend of celebrating my Godson’s birthday and it’s not over Yeti 🫈
14/06/2026

It’s been a weekend of celebrating my Godson’s birthday and it’s not over Yeti 🫈

They say there’s no “I” in team… …but what if you can’t find “we” either?When people don’t feel they belong, performanc...
22/05/2026

They say there’s no “I” in team…
…but what if you can’t find “we” either?

When people don’t feel they belong, performance drops. Ideas dry up. No one takes risks. You’re left with a room full of “me”, not “we”.

Listening (and drawing away) to at last night, it was clear that if you found the foundation of ‘belonging’, that was where you found the ‘we’ in team – it’s the foundation for courage, standards and showing up for each other.

Even as a solo entrepreneur, I form a team with every client I work with. My job is to ask: what can ‘I’ contribute so that ‘we’ can do great things?

Meet For Good is doing great things and I’m so grateful to be part of this community that’s just won an award for exactly that. Go team!

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Know any good markets to go to this bank holiday weekend?
20/05/2026

Know any good markets to go to this bank holiday weekend?

When your in a room with ’s (Sports Broadcaster of the Year) and he tells you that care for your audience is the founda...
21/03/2026

When your in a room with ’s (Sports Broadcaster of the Year) and he tells you that care for your audience is the foundation of good communication, your hearing it straight from the horses mouth and I’m taking note…literally!

Ed doesn’t make himself centre stage, he plays a supporting role and chooses to celebrate others.
His focus is on utilising all of the tools and the team at his disposal to tune into the tone of the event he is broadcasting.
That way he can do the best job of communicating with those who have gifted him their attention.

Ed spoke like a true champion at last night’s event, hosted by Pete Rhodes and at .parry . Ed made it all about everyone around him so I hope this helps celebrate who he is and what he shared for all of our sakes.

Multi coloured pencils are not given the credit they deserve! This is too much fun! Available from all good museum gift ...
15/12/2025

Multi coloured pencils are not given the credit they deserve! This is too much fun! Available from all good museum gift shops!

Just a selection of my favourite finds at the antiques fair today 👀
12/12/2025

Just a selection of my favourite finds at the antiques fair today 👀

Picture this...You’ve been working in your niche area of a niche industry for a year and a half and in that time you hav...
09/07/2025

Picture this...

You’ve been working in your niche area of a niche industry for a year and a half and in that time you have not met a single other person in your niche in real life...

BUT
..the online community of that niche are so welcoming, encouraging, uplifting, active and well connected that they’d fly in from around the world and, when you do meet up, they are already great friends and you can’t wrap your head around how you haven’t met before?

That was what happened this weekend when I attended the and drew alongside some truly inspirational humans excited to think differently and serve others with their gifts in visual communication.

The conversations flowed straight past introductions (with no need to explain what Graphic Recording is!) and on into the real power and value of putting pen to paper in a world that needs human connection and creative solutions more than ever.

More to come on this amazing experience but a huge thanks to and of for making the whole thing happen. It was incredibly Sketchy!! (...in a good way!)

Visits to Instagram are few and far between for me these days but boy am I glad o jumped on the day posted this absolut...
04/07/2025

Visits to Instagram are few and far between for me these days but boy am I glad o jumped on the day posted this absolute corker!

How was your weekend?Did you get the rest you needed? And if so… what kind of rest was it?Interestingly, even though dra...
24/02/2025

How was your weekend?
Did you get the rest you needed? And if so… what kind of rest was it?

Interestingly, even though drawing is my day job, it’s also one of my favourite ways to switch off.

The key is less about what I do and more about how I use it.
Instead of thinking too hard or creating for others, I’ll sit down (with a nice coffee) and take my time to do simple character studies or just make marks on a page - something that lets me relax into an activity that I love, without the pressure of pushing towards a finished piece.
It may be difficult to differentiate from the outside world but I’m making a clear shift out of work and into play!

In this mornings Cole Collective call, lead us through the 7 types of rest as they are defined by Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith and this stuff is fascinating. I’ll let the recording do the talking here...
..Not all rest is created equal, and sometimes, what we think of as rest doesn’t actually refill the tank in the way we need.

So, to ask you in true Mike Cole coaching fashion - do you feel like you got the kind of rest you really needed this weekend? How would you rate it and what would you change to get more of the rest you need?

I’d love to hear your thoughts in the comments and highly recommend joining the collective if you like this kind of discussion/self reflection.

Me and my first love (drawing) had a date at the business breakfast this morning where the incredible shared a very v...
14/02/2025

Me and my first love (drawing) had a date at the business breakfast this morning where the incredible shared a very vulnerable and encouraging account of his journey to success along with all of the headspace’s and places that took him to along the way.
It was a real honour to be in the room and capture the heart of his message visually.
Huge thanks to and Pete Rohde for hosting another inspirational event. 🙌
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