At the recent level three coaches course (the final segment in the saga) one of the guest speakers spoke of the universally accepted view amongst coaches, that it takes 10,000 hours for an athlete in any sport to win an Olympic Gold Medal. It appears it’s the same amount of development needed for a cyclist to reach the Tour de France. Since I’ve been on holidays I’ve been reading books, lots of books. The 10,000hr theory applies to business leaders as well.
The widely held view is, to reach the top …

In 1985 I was heavily involved in building my fortune. I worked seven days a week, most weeks and often started at 5.30am and finished at 7.30pm at night. I had married very young and had gotten into the habit of hard work from an early age. By this stage I had two Cat machines, two International trucks, a Mercedes-Benz car, two plant nurseries and in my spare time I built swimming pools and carried out landscaping contracts.
When I started out all of this I didn’t work at this level, I gradually …