I started coaching a girl called Caroline this week. She's a fun person working in marketing and looks a bit like Davina McCall. Although Caroline has a very 'together' life in lots of ways, she wants to achieve more focus and direction. I knew this before our first meeting and so had given it some thought. My ponderings coincided with the elections and the news surrounding them - some of which is always about the number of people who DON'T vote. It struck me that voting could actually be something that is key in terms of whether someone is focussed or not. I'm not talking about which party a person votes for here - simply whether or not they exercise their right to vote. It's my guess that nearly everyone who doesn't vote is lacking focus in some respect.

Caroline, as it happens, didn't vote. Her first task from me has been to find out who her local MP is and to find out some basic political facts about where she lives. It will be very interesting to see what the knock-on effect of this first task is.