Posted by lisallen on August 26, 2010 under Personal Development Blog, Self Improvement Ideas | 
The thing I LOVE about YouTube is the fact that you can re-visit and share experiences with people who weren’t with you first time round. A couple of days ago I was talking to a friend about Derek Redmond, the British athlete – the name might not mean anything to you until I say …….Barcelona….. Olympics 1992. He was the guy who was tipped to win the 400m and had to pull out in the middle of his semi-final due to a torn ham-string. Read more of this article »
Posted by lisallen on August 12, 2010 under Personal Development Blog, Self Improvement Ideas |
Last Tuesday evening I was doing something rather unusual. I was in Scotland, queuing to get into a Brechin City football match (you know Brechin, that well-known mecca of British Football!).
Now for those of you who do know about British football, you’ll understand that Brechin’s usual crowd is around 500 people and there’s no need to queue! And yet I was lining up with all these people. Why? One of the reasons was the standard of the opposition – Aberdeen had come down to test out the local boys. However, there was a much more important reason for us to be there. This was no ordinary match – it was a memorial match for David Will, CBE, a former Chairman of the club who died an untimely death due to cancer in September 2009. Read more of this article »
