Early in 2024, I teamed up with the LMI UK team to share their portfolio of life-changing personal development and leadership programmes (developed over 60 years in 90 countries and benefiting 2.5 million people). Starting with its core, Effective Personal Productivity programme, these courses take people on a development journey unlike any other, culminating in becoming the Total Leader.My story started in retail management, then telesales and eventually, the rough, tough battlefields of London City frontline sales. The truth is that I was rubbish at selling. I was far too gentle, dare I say 'nice' and afraid of people saying 'no'. But put a pen in my hand, and the sales ninja came bursting through... To cut a long story short, I became a freelance copywriter in 2005, eventually specialising as a ghostwriter of business blogs. Then, in 2017, I took on the persona of The Business Ghost (ghostwriting other people's business books). In addition to being the invisible pen behind over a dozen books for others, I am the author of The Lazy Optimist and Build Your Business in 90 Minutes a Day (with Nigel Botterill) in my own name.(The Lazy Optimist contains the slightly longer version of the story I cut short earlier. It tells how a daydreaming, busy fool got out of his own way, and managed to stop time long enough to allow the dream in his head to become a reality.) From 2021 to 2023, I coached over 60 small business owners through the UK's most comprehensive, end-to-end, birth-to-exit, fix-to-scale-and-sale business growth programme (The Entrepreneurs Circle's Masterplan). It was amazing, and I learned so much from seeing others apply the process and work towards their dreams that I just had to get out and do more of it myself...Working with LMI gives me the opportunity to tick all my boxes: - I can run my life and business on my TERMS (time, energy, resource, money, sanity)...- I can help other small business owners by sharing all that I have learned...- I get to write creatively, professionally, intentionally and healthily... - I have a plan, so I am in control of 100% of my time 100% of the time... If you are still reading, my 7-second​ personal bio is:- Full-time* Christian (happy to qualify the difference 😉 just call)- Exceedingly happily married for 29 years- Lifelong (largely longsuffering) supporter of Reading FC - Part-time Magician (I used to say 'amateur' but it led to assumptions that I was rubbish)- Dedicated ParkRunner (Gadebridge Park, Hemel Hempstead)- Whimsical poet & lover of words- Birdwatcher & nature walker