Allison Marlowe

Here I am with Jonathon Jay, and my very good friend Wendy-Dashwood Quick.

I was thrilled to catch up with them both at Dan Bradbury's Top Gun Conference at Heathrow this weekend.

Jonathon Jay, if you don't know was the founder of the Coaching Academy. A company he grew from scratch with his last £145. He later went on to sell the company eight years later for several million pounds.

Jonathon has been a huge inspiration to me over the past 6 years. At my first ever coach training weekend, I made a radical decision not to return to work, instead I committed to retraining as a coach. It was the best decision I have ever made. That weekend quite literally changed my life, and ever since I have been on an amazing journey of self discovery and development.

There is a great saying, "When the student is ready the teacher appears", until that time information can be staring you right in the face but unless you are ready for it, you just can't see it. I've become quite greedy when it comes to learning, the more I learn the more I need to learn.

But there are two critical factors about learning, firstly, learn from the very best! If you model mediocre, you will become mediocre , I think Jonathon shared that one during one of his seminars and secondly, knowledge without action is futile.

So let me introduce you to Wendy, I met Wendy, another Coaching Academy graduate two years ago when we both travelled to Ireland to attended a fantastic three day intensive workshop led by Bernadette Doyle. That workshop really was the business, a big investment but has certainly paid off.

That workshop sparked an idea for Wendy and she has since written her own personal development book Discover Yourself on the Yellow Brick Road , the 7 Core Principles of Success, I invite you to preview it now in e-book format.

The speakers at the conference this weekend were fantastic, my mind is still buzzing with literally hundreds of new ideas, the networking was phenomenal but you know, the whole weekend without action would be wasted.

Let me leave you with a quote to ponder, " Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action."