The week I began to write this piece on mental toughness, one of my children became very ill. I hardly had time to finish the first paragraph when things escalated and within days, five of my tiny people were on antibiotics. I might not have felt tough but the situation certainly was.

How often do we say to ourselves and others “I couldn’t do it because I didn’t have time?” It’s the oldest and dare I say, laziest excuse for not organising our time properly. It’s never true that I don’t have time - I have tons of it.