by Emma Bell | Nov 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
I’d like to share one of the hundreds of tips contained in my online Thriving Force Programme with you each week. If the tip resonates with you, please apply it, and let me know how you get on by emailing me at emma@emmajbell.com. This week’s tip is inspired by...
by Emma Bell | Nov 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Jaap Bressers taught me what it means to care, and to show it too. His story begins on a Portuguese beach. He was lying face down in the ocean. Moments earlier, he had sloshed through the shallows into the sea; relishing the warmth of the sun on his skin despite the...
by Emma Bell | Oct 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
The four-minute mile barrier stood for decades. Experts believed the feat could be achieved only in perfect weather — 68 degrees and no wind, and on a hard, dry clay track. But Bannister did it on a wet track in cold weather. Just 46 days after Bannister’s success,...
by Emma Bell | Oct 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
There’s no denying that Autumn is here. The beautiful gold, russet and umber flashes on the trees and bushes mark her arrival, before the wind whips them bare. I’m taken by surprise every year at just how quickly the mornings shrink, and the evenings too. It...
by Emma Bell | Feb 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
As I sat in Helen Connolly’s kitchen, she told me about how terrorists had stormed the restaurant at the Oberoi Hotel in Mumbai. She was dining with close friends, Alan and his 13-year-old daughter Naomi. The three of them had taken cover under the table as the...
by Emma Bell | May 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Tears pricked my eyes as I listened to Chris Lantman’s clear, unfaltering voice. He was reading the words of his partner, John (or ‘Smiley’ to those of us who knew and loved him) from the transcript of our interview at his home on the outskirts of...
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