From the desk of Steve Drake – Wednesday 14th June 2023

Due to the government’s response to the covid 19 pandemic in 2020 several training dates that had been planned to coincide with the official launch of my first published book 'Blueprints 4 Success' never got off the ground. However, we are going for a relaunch in the summer of 2023. 🚀 This time I am leaning towards the e book route to cut out the extortionate delivery costs. There is a new chapter that is not in the original book and the 'Power of One seminars are right back on the agenda. Exciting times ahead 📅 

You know I don't hide behind a fake email address or any address, and I DO return phone calls (as time permits). And I answer my emails. 

I am currently in the U.K. (Manchester) but plans are in the advanced preparation stage to move out to Thailand. The wait is almost over. I have put together a totally unique package of low tech and high impact team building events incorporating education and entertainment. 

Let me give you a heads up. You have heard me say many times that our brain is the most powerful bio-computer ever created, but unfortunately, it does not come with an operator’s manual.

Let me explain what I mean.

You can't get wet from the word water! The downfall with many Team Building presentations is that people can get inspired by the achievements of others and even feed off the presenter's enthusiasm. However, this enthusiasm often wears off.

The key to having a highly motivated workforce is employees learning how to motivate themselves regardless of the situation or circumstances. If you have been taught through the usual tried old patterns of explanation, demonstration, and drill, then the most important and useful part of your ability to learn has been left out. 

My events are performance targeted and light years away from the standard ‘chalk and talk’ style still so beloved by traditional trainers, This isn't about business theory, and I am really looking forward to sharing the secrets of self motivation in 'The Power of One'. 

If you would like to get a head start on proceeding or more information on personal coaching please email: bp4strainingacademy@gmail.com

99.8 and feeling Great.

Some goals are more personal than others.

Just a few days before my 60th Birthday I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and the doctor told me that I have been walking around with this for some time. The good news is that it is reversible, but I needed to lose weight (27Ks) so I immediately set a health goal entitled the 60-day challenge



I knew i had to create some better health habits through better diet and getting back into exercise, and so 60 days is a good chunk of time to springboard myself into it.

My start date was the 1st of February and I weighed in at 115Kgs

Today was the end of my 60-day challenge and I now weigh 99.8Kgs.

I Still, a fair way to go, but my overall target has been reassessed, The Doctors say if I could get under 91 KGs I would be in what they call recessive, and they will see me again in June. I'm on it. Phase two starts now,


This phase two is not going to be as brutal and with the better weather coming eating choices will be much better. To be honest, I am very positive and somewhat motivated by the whole thing, if I can lose half as much in the next 3 month that I have in the last two I will be over the moon.

I want to share something really special with you today.

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of Coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the Jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with a unanimous "yes. The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed.



"Now," said the professor as the laughter subsided, "I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The golf balls are the Important things---Your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions---and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.

The sand is everything else---the small stuff. "If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

"Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Be forgiving of others. Remember that no one is perfect.

Do not expect perfection of yourself or others. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your loved one out to lunch. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the garden.

Take care of the golf balls first---the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled and said, "I'm glad you asked."



The coffee just shows you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."

Please share this with someone you care about.. I JUST DID

Success is not about doing extraordinary things, but doing things extraordinary well.

Unless you shape your life, circumstances will shape it for you. You have to work, sacrifice, invest, and persist to get the results you want. Choose them well. You can’t start your planning until you know where you want to go.

`Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'

`That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.

`I don't much care where--' said Alice.

`Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.

`--so long as I get somewhere,' Alice added as an explanation.

`Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, `if you only walk long enough.'

Taken from Alice in Wonderland.

There is one thing which will determine above all else, how successful you are in life.

It has nothing to do with your education, your knowledge, your age or your experience. It has everything to do with your attitude, or to be more precise, YOUR POSITIVE ATTITUDE.

The world is full of people who can give you any number of reasons why something won’t work. And guess what, if you start out with the belief that a particular idea or approach won’t work, then its bound to fail. It is pre-determined. Your only consolation will be that you were right all along!

Likewise, you can pre-determine your success. If you believe you’ll be successful, that it will work, you will act and behave to a certain way to ensure that does work. You were right once again, but this time the overall result is much more to your liking.

Goal Setting

You are the sculptor of your own image. Have others already done what you want to do? Study them and do what they did. Start anywhere, at any time, and persist. Stop worrying about what others think about what you can or can’t do. Believe in yourself and your abilities. Have the self-confidence to challenge your current situation. This is your life to live; it’s day by day and step by step.

Only three percent of people have written goals and only one percent review those written goals daily. With Peak Performance Coaching you will be in that elite one percent. Visualize the attainment of your goals often. Goals are dreams with dates attached. You will only become as great and as happy as the goals you choose.

Rule Number 1

“Don’t expect anything less than you could possibly achieve”

Why don’t people set goals?

There are four basic reasons

1) FEAR

2) POOR SELF IMAGE

3) THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN SOLD

4) DON’T KNOW HOW.

The ultimate reason for goal setting is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.

Blueprint for Success

The purpose of this pre-course course exercise is to provide you with some clear focus on what you really want from your life.

When reading over each section and reflecting on your answer think very carefully and be very specific in your answers, this will give us a clear understanding of your needs.

Take as much time as you need to complete this section, this is the foundation to building your future, make it strong and use your past to chart your future.

Step 1) Write your Goals down in a Journal / Diary.

Your goals can be relationship goals, financial goals, personal goals, family goals,

Social goals or even spiritual goals, the list can be endless, remember rule number one is “Don’t expect anything less than you could possibly achieve”

Once you have your list put it away until morning, then look at it again, did you miss anything off the list, if you did write it in now before you forget.

That is all I need to make a positive start, Do it today not tomorrow, do it now because I want to congratulate you in your wise decision to invest in yourself.

I will deliver step number 2 very shortly.

Breakthrough your Fear

Have you ever smashed straight through a one inch thick piece of piranha pine wood with only your bare hands!!!

It is not a trick and there is no sort of magic needed, the fact is simply that most people believe they can't do it because a wooden board appears much stronger than your hand. It looks intimidating. Many fear that they might get hurt; they don't believe they can do it because they are not some sort of martial arts expert and so that it is not possible for them and they have a hard time breaking through that limiting belief and fear.


















Now take a moment and consider that the obstacles in your life have a similarity to that wooden board. The board is a tangible analogy for whatever might be holding you back. Just like it seems impossible to break the board, it often seems impossible to overcome other challenges.


















We often feel that same level of apprehension when trying to effect change, when we feel stuck or at an impasse. However, the power to breakthrough any obstacle is within you at all times. It will be there when you are ready to call on it. It takes a keen focus on what you want to achieve vs. what is standing in your way.

Now imagine you are facing that wooden board, you take a deep breath, you raise your hand in preparation of striking, you can feel all of your energy, concentration and focus, you have nothing in your mind other than going beyond that board going right through it like hot butter!




















Then you feel the exuberance of success, the adrenaline rushing through your body, the thrill of victory! You did it!

And then, that quiet calm comes over you. You sense the meaning of what you achieved by doing something that only minutes ago you thought impossible. You just gained proof.

Real proof that you can also break through whatever challenges seem insurmountable in your life.

In a board breaking exercise the moment your hand connects with the wood is your touch point, your moment of truth. If you are ready, willing and focused on going through that wood, then you will successfully break through! If however, you simply meet the wood or deliver a half-hearted attempt you will not break through. You in effect have chosen to stop yourself at the moment when you are so close to reaching beyond what has previously seemed impossible. When you are committed and more focused on what you want to achieve than what is in your way you will easily break through.

Fear of failure is one of the most notable obstacles that people feel limit their success. This fear of failure shows up in many forms. It included the lack of confidence in oneself, holding back rather than speaking up, feeling insecure, and dealing with too much change. Certainly our economic fluctuations are cause for challenges, many times our work and our families help us to see personal challenges, and with any new beginnings you may be anticipating challenges. Each of these concerns is like a board, an obstacle in the way of becoming who you want to become, performing how you want to perform and achieving what is desired.

Do you have any mental obstacles and challenges you are facing in your life right now? The physical process of breaking through that board with your bare hand gives you the confidence and proof that nothing is impossible! How exciting to know that you have the unlimited personal power within you to accomplish anything you focus your mind on.


















Board breaking is an experience never to be forgotten, both individuals and teams can always recall on that unique moment in time when they achieved their true level of inner confidence and power and potential.


For more information please contact Steve Drake Mob: (UAE) + 97150 244 7590

Lost for words

Dear Steve,

This is stuff dreams are made of – this is what I want to be able to do make difference in peoples lives.

All my life I have looked for role models, and at different phases I have always found one through the grace of God,

In this corporate jungle where I can see myself fighting a losing battle against negativity and resistance to change. A ray of light shines through your classes, suddenly believing in the impossible, has taken a step further – where doing the impossible actually happened

Amazing- experience – I am totally lost for words

Thank you for everything

Reyana