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Acknowledgements

This book wouldnt have been possible without the help of so many people. Id like to offer my sincerest thanks to each of them and my apologies to anyone I have inadvertently missed out.

Geraldine, this book only exists because of your help, patience, advice, support and feedback. You dont know just how much you mean to me. Thanks for inspiring me. Mum and Dad. Thanks for the encouragement, advice and constant inspiration. My heroes.

Chris, the best mate I could have.

Anthony and Rachael, thanks for the encouragement and web surfing.

Mari and Gerry, your attention to detail was phenomenal and your support vital. Thanks.

Chris Mallaband, the inventor of Liquid Thinking. Thanks, mate.

Phil Ince, the embodiment of Liquid Thinking. Thanks for being pernickety!

Iain and Andrea Allen, thanks for taking the time out from your own masterpiece to help.

Tracy Pettitt, thanks for the encouragement. Sorry for disturbing your train journeys!

Emma Finlay. The advice and unfailing support were amazing and invaluable. Remember me when youre running the place!

Dave and Vicky Morgan. Your guidance and advice kept this book on course when it looked like getting lost. Vicky, apologies for keeping him working late to read the many drafts.

Ben Jemison for helping set up www.liquidthinker.comNicky Wooton and Andrew Park from www.cognitivemedia.co.uk. Thanks for humouring me at Fouracres and backing the idea with your amazing support. Much appreciated. Nobby Stiles, Sir Richard Branson, Angelo Dundee, Sir John Jones, Wayne Bennett and Chris Moon for offering your backing, support and encouragement.

Sue Schoormans for your support.

Chris Lunt. Thanks for your advice and guidance.

Brian and Christine Higginson. Inspirational.

Paul Lee. Respect.

Mark Holden. Good luck with the wedding.

Steve Byrne. Whats next?

Gerry Fannon. Hope you and the boat make it to Ireland one day.

Andy Hardcastle. Please now say something nice about Human Racehorses.

Forza Malaka!

All Liquid Thinkers. Thanks for the inspiration.

About the author

Damian Hughes is the founder of the LiquidThinker Company, which takes the methods used by great achievers and shows, in easy steps, how you can adopt them into your own life and business in order to achieve your dreams and ambitions. He is the author of Liquid Leadership and The Survival Guide to Change.

Hughes, a former England schoolboy footballer and Manchester United football coach, was a Human Resources Director for Unilever and led a turnaround in performance at the UKs oldest manufacturing site in Port Sunlight before carrying out similar work in Africa and the US.

He now runs his own change management consultancy, LiquidThinker Ltd, helping a wide range of individuals, teams and industries achieve similar employee engagement and success. He also works as a sports psychologist for the GB Rugby League team.

Hughes runs a Manchester inner-city youth club, Collyhurst and Moston, which has helped reduce crime and help many kids find a purpose in their lives, from stopping crime to winning Olympic medals. He was nominated for the 2007 William Hill Sports Book of the Year award for his biography of boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson.

His innovative and exciting approach has been praised by Sir Richard Branson, Muhammad Ali, Sir Terry Leahy, Tiger Woods, Jonny Wilkinson and Sir Alex Ferguson.

If you are interested in Damian working with you, contact him at damian@liquidthinker.com or visit his website at www.liquidthinker.com.

Foreword

Having read this book, I am flattered that I have been presented as a role model and am delighted to be asked by Damian to offer a foreword for Liquid Thinking.

As someone who has achieved many of my own personal goals and experienced the satisfaction from doing so, I would recommend that you adopt the lessons and techniques, which are captured in this excellent book, to greatly assist you in achieving your own ambitions.

Go ahead. Take the plunge and become a fellow liquid thinker.

Sir Richard Branson

Preface

Angelo Dundee is the best known of all boxing trainers. He is the most recognizable and famous and trained more than 20 world champions.

It gives me tremendous pleasure to be able to offer a contribution to this excellent book.

I have been involved with boxing for 60 years and have been fortunate enough to train and work closely with over 20 world champions, including some of the all-time greats like Muhammad Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard. It is for this reason that I feel able to comment on what makes the difference between the ordinary and the great, where the thin dividing line between success and failure lies and what separates the true champions from the contenders.

It is not purely talent. I have seen hundreds of talented fighters who have never achieved everything that they should have done. It is not down to luck. Luck can only carry you so far. It is not about how privileged your background is or where you come from. It is about your attitude, the mental approach which you choose to adopt to chase your dreams. Damian has done a remarkable job in capturing, in this book, the tips and techniques which the great people, like Muhammad Ali, knew about and used to perfection to be able to conquer the world.

Your ambitions may be more moderate than that, but it still shouldnt stop you using the same methods of the greats to help propel you towards your own goals. Combine these with the determination to work hard and dedicate your whole self towards achieving whatever it is you desire and you, too, can become your own version of a world champion.

Good luck!

Angelo Dundee

Why read this book?

I have written Liquid Thinking for a number of reasons, but mainly because I have always wanted to write a book. So this is the fulfilment of one of my goals and I hope that you will give it some attention.

The second reason is that I am a genuine believer that we are all capable of more than we give. I therefore wanted to write a book that was a celebration of those we work alongside every day, as well as famous and well-known achievers - people who have given so much of themselves to achieve their own goals.

The final reason is that I wanted to find out what these people have in common, what characteristics they share and what lessons and advice they could give that would allow others to learn from them and go on to achieve their own special goals.

I want to offer two pieces of advice before you venture much further into this book:

1. Come along with an open mind. If I am right, think about what you have to gain. If you are determined to shoot down the lessons in the book and find fault, then I have no doubt that you will be successful. I also have no doubt that you will gain nothing from it. Dont close your mind to new possibilities.

2. Have a pencil with you when you read. This book is yours, so feel free to annotate or highlight any passages that strike a chord with you. There are actions for you to take at the end of each chapter - take time to work on these. You may struggle with some of them at first. Dont worry, you can come back to them (skip to the chapter called Perseverance if you really need some convincing!), but do take the actions to get the absolute most out of this opportunity.

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