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Does your boss have a positive impact on your mental health?

Oct 24 min read

Does your boss have a positive impact on your mental health?

a boss who disregards mental health can quickly create a toxic work environment that contributes to anxiety and depression.

Martin Eggleston

Jul 213 min read

In my professional opinion

What is legendary status ?

Great leaders are not just born, they are made. It takes hard work, dedication, and a willingness to learn and grow.

Martin Eggleston

Mar 303 min read

In my personal opinion

Lent is over again ...

I always give up chocolate, and find it relatively comfortable - So this year, I decided to give up bread as well... Foolish I know

Martin Eggleston

Nov 23, 20235 min read

In my professional opinion

Urgency will not fix your problem

You can force through your urgency agenda once, but if the reward to your team is more run faster jump higher tasks - you will lose them.

Martin Eggleston

Sep 24, 20235 min read

In my professional opinion

I haven't even got over Woolies yet...

The Woolies in Rotherham was iconic. It had 3 entrances including the one out the back, it was the first place to go for all sorts of things

Is Steve Borthwick the Worst England Head Coach Ever?

Martin Eggleston

Sep 3, 20235 min read

In my personal opinion

Is Steve Borthwick the Worst England Head Coach Ever?

I want the whole country to be proud of us and to enjoy watching us play. The hard work starts now

The unstoppable rise of the virtue signal

Martin Eggleston

Aug 5, 20234 min read

In my personal opinion

The unstoppable rise of the virtue signal

Virtue signalling is so annoying - yet social media willingly offers up this opportunity to carefully curate a false public persona

Working in the hospitality industry is great... (well, let me explain 'great')

Martin Eggleston

Mar 22, 20239 min read

In my professional opinion

Working in the hospitality industry is great... (well, let me explain 'great')

For those who have long worked in the hospitality industry, you will know there are endless complaints to make.

Shape shifting - the outside truth from the inside track, about living with epilepsy

Martin Eggleston

Feb 11, 20237 min read

In my personal opinion

Shape shifting - the outside truth from the inside track, about living with epilepsy

The truth is this; Quite frankly epilepsy has no discretion

What flavour is that chip on your shoulder?

Martin Eggleston

Jul 31, 20225 min read

In my professional opinion

What flavour is that chip on your shoulder?

It’s one of the most self-destructive forms of emotional clutter there is.

Martin Eggleston

May 10, 20227 min read

In my professional opinion

Choppy Waters

Mental Health awareness for hospitality leaders

Martin Eggleston

Mar 15, 20226 min read

In my personal opinion

My life in a time machine

Boomers to the left of me, Millennials to the right - here I am - Stuck in the middle is a fantastic place to be. When Nirvana released...

Martin Eggleston

Mar 8, 20225 min read

In my personal opinion

Can I give less of a f**k

If you waste time on the little things, there's probably not much going on in your life, to make giving too many fucks a problem for you.

Martin Eggleston

Jan 19, 202210 min read

In my personal opinion

Why skiing is for fools

I have always admired British people that can ski. The reason being, that we get so little snow anywhere else, that skiing at any decent...

Office worker keeps mistaking meeting for party

Martin Eggleston

Jan 14, 20222 min read

Third Party Opinion and Reading

Office worker keeps mistaking meeting for party

A party activist has received a formal written warning today after yet again mistaking a work meeting for a party

Does being the youngest help you succeed ?

Martin Eggleston

Dec 20, 20214 min read

In my professional opinion

Does being the youngest help you succeed ?

Being the youngest actually helped me develop skills that have helped me throughout my professional life.

Martin Eggleston

Dec 15, 20216 min read

Why messaging is bad for relations

It wasn’t until later that day when the colleague and I spoke on the phone, I realised my email had created more questions than answers.

Martin Eggleston

Nov 24, 20215 min read

My COVID journey. One year on.

'What's it like to have long COVID?' It is the question nobody wants to ask, and answer that you feel almost embarrassed to give......

Quiet People in Meetings are usually the most confident

Martin Eggleston

Sep 11, 20215 min read

In my professional opinion

Quiet People in Meetings are usually the most confident

It’s okay to sit in silence. It doesn’t make you a loser; it makes you smart.

Martin Eggleston

Aug 6, 20215 min read

In my professional opinion

Does Perfection Even Exist?

The most insidious danger in excessive pursuit of perfection can be found in something called the "ideal self"

Martin Eggleston

Jul 31, 20217 min read

In my personal opinion

Its more cool being the youngest

No, it’s not always perfect. However, being the youngest child in a family is better than being the middle or the oldest child.