“It is really like a game – you’ve gotta know the rules of the game, and it takes a while to learn those rules – once you know the rules, you’ve gotta play, you can’t just watch, you can’t just sit on the side and be a spectator and comment – you’ve got to get your hands dirty and start playing…”

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Ow! everything aches!! Today I officially started my 31 Day Challenge to lose that not so little bulge round my middle that I’ve been putting up with for far, far too long.

Why now?…  Well, why not now?!   I’ve been hiding behind words up till now…

Time to come out into the daylight… The shift happened for me, mentally and emotionally, several weeks ago. I was Taming My Dragons, as one does on a Sunday afternoon in leafy Hampstead, (fantastic course!), when a single sentence hit me like a brick and I had one of those ‘aha!’ moments.

“I believe in lifelong learning. I believe in continuous professional development. I don’t believe that process ever stops, to the day we die…”

As one of the leading trainers of professional photographers, Martin Grahame-Dunn has developed his understanding of the art and craft of photography to a Master level. He’s trained and mentored many photographers and has a gift of turning those who’ve come in from other professions from ‘zero to hero’ in a spectacularly short amount of time.

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Well, it’s been an interesting few months for me, diving into coaching full-time, working with some absolutely wonderful people and loving it! I’m so lucky to get paid now for what essentially is something I love. Do what you love, love what you do and all that…

But I know that it’s an elusive process – I’m still in it myself – finding yourself again after life seemed to have taken over for a while, re-connecting with what get’s you fired up on all cylinders, excited or impatient to get on with it – getting On Purpose, as Bob Proctor calls it.