What details of your life could you pay more attention to? Living With a Busy Mind Where do I start? My mind never seems to slow down. With OCD, thoughts are constantly racing, overlapping, and demanding attention. It can feel overwhelming at times, but over the years, I’ve found ways to make it work for…

How are you feeling right now? It’s sunny, it’s warm, it’s windy and it’s time to go teaching Wingfoiling today, these are the very few days in Scotland that make me feel Tip Top although in saying that these days just make me feel even more tip top than usual, wake up and live each…

What motivates you? Over the years I have naturally trained to motivate myself, I didn’t really have a plan to do so but I quickly realised that people generally lack motivation so I knew I wasn’t going to get it from anyone easily so I decided to give myself motivation even when the hardest days…

What’s the story behind your nickname? When I was a boy I had a few nicknames which were more orientated around making fun out of me as they normally are at school. I was very tall for my age so you can imagine all the terms such as lanky, daddy long legs, mountain, snow peak,…

What strategies do you use to maintain your health and well-being? It’s amazing how you can sustain non-stop exercise and vigorous playing around when you’re young, as you grow older you still imagine that your body is functioning the same, but secretly it’s not. I eventually had to bow down to old age but only…

What are your future travel plans? My wife and I are both lovers of wind sports and we Kitesurf and Wingfoil here in Scotland during the summer months when the winds are warm and consistent, well as much as they can be for the UK. We run our own WindSports school and we are committed…

What would you change about modern society? I was shopping the other day and the check out lady as usual asked me if I needed any bags and I as always I said no thank you I have brought my own which I have had for years as not to add to the enormous worldwide…

What do you listen to while you work? In my line of work I don’t have the chance to listen to music as I teach Watersports so my daily job is listening to people and hearing what they have to say about their progression during the lessons. Just like people watching people listening is definitely…

Which activities make you lose track of time? For me there is only one thing that makes me lose track of time and that is being out on the water kitesurfing or Wingfoiling. It’s funny actually as I was just talking about this the other day to a couple of fellow kiters that when we…

What bothers you and why? Not much bothers me but if I were asked my answer would be people who work all there Lives to have a materialistic status. This to me is so pointless, now don’t get me wrong having things you longed to have is a nice feeling once you have them but…