All Mark Pollock Blogs

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been speaking at conferences all over Ireland and the UK. Sitting back stage waiting to go on, I have had the chance to listen to all sorts of corporate leaders, entrepreneurs and Olympic medalists sharing their stories. The message that is repeated time and time again is that […]

For years I’ve been banging on about the importance of getting the right team around you…and this post is not going to dispute that. However, over the last week I added an electronic team-mate to the group. A talking heart rate monitor from Oregon Scientific – the AH310 – is the new addition. It’s a […]

 No matter what the goal is, dealing in facts is the best chance we have of sticking to the plan and hitting the targets. But the facts are so easily clouded by emotional distractions and we get caught in a haze of if, buts and maybes. So, here are my top 5 ways to stick to […]

On Tuesday I spoke to a group of bankers in England who have been feeling the pressure of surviving during the ongoing financial turmoil. They were not the fat-cat monsters that bankers have been portrayed as of late, rather they were ordinary people like you and me trying to navigate a course through the crisis. […]

The challenge for last weekend was my first snowboarding experience on real snow. The plan for this challenge had been to get Nick Wolf (my Gobi March team-mate) to talk me safely down a mountain in Switzerland on my walkie talkie system that I bought for this year’s challenges. It seemed like a sensible, achievable […]

My first snowboard trip is happening this weekend and we have 2 lessons left at www.skicentre.ie in Dublin. Simone is a regular betty which apparently means a girl who snowboards with her left foot forward. And I ride goofy which means I have my right foot forward. I have to admit I was pleased to […]