Robin Sieger Blog

I am off to India tomorrow, to meet my friend Patrick. He and I went to school together. After university, as would be hippies, we hitch hiked from Scotland to Sri Lanka, and on the way stayed for three weeks in Goa in India.
Patrick works for third world charities and spends much of the […]

I have set the date for my personal retreat as the 24th and 25th of March, 2007 at Latimer House in Buckinghamshire, England.
I try every year to spend time thinking and reflecting, and this year have decided to open it up and make it a two day event. As those who have been following the […]

I was sent this in an e-mail last year. Thought you might enjoy it too.
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned to complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen […]

The other day I spoke at a conference, to 1400 members of an international organisation. I arrived the day before to do a technical run through. As it turns out the crew were world-class and the run through was very straightforward.
The next day I arrived and went backstage, met the crew and did a final […]

As some of the regular readers of my newsletter will be aware, I have decided to run a two day retreat before the end of April this year. The weekend will be free, with attendees having to cover all their own costs.
I have done this for two reasons, firstly I want to change the […]

I went for a long, early morning cycle around 6am today and for some reason as I was thinking about the big things I wanted to achieve this year, (apart from the usual list of finding the cure for cancer, banishing Third World Debt, losing 15lbs and buying Microsoft for cash) I kept coming back […]

After the quiet period of Christmas and New Year, I find myself looking at my 'to do' list which has doubled in the first four working days of 2007. It is easy at times to think that we can give it all up and run a beach bar in a tropical island. In fact […]

I am off to Spain today to spend a week resting and indulging in my favourite sport of skydiving in Empuriabrava Spain. There are lots of former and current national champions who will be at the airfield. One of the great things about the skydiving community is that it is very inclusive. […]

The challenge at Christmas for many is to buy the perfect present, to exceed the expectation of those to whom we buy gifts for. To see their faces light up in genuine joy, and with the exception of children I believe the gift is always secondary to the sentiment behind it, to know that […]

Today I had my last official piece of business, which required I travel by train three hours to a meeting that would last an hour at the most. The meeting had to be face to face, which given the six hours travelling that it would require, made it a long day.
I had planned to […]