In the lead up to the Self Management Awards, we find out more about our judges and what self management means to them.

Dougie Taylor, Director of Drumchapel L.I.F.E shares what self management means to him.

What is self management to you?

Self management is the what keeps me doing what I love to do despite my heart condition.

If you could trade places with anybody, who would it be?

I would trade places with Eileen Taylor, because she’s married to me.

What piece of advice would you give your younger self?

Get tore in regardless

What would be the soundtrack to your life right now?

We have to care in this game, so there’s an old blues song by Elmore James that I aspire to live up to, and the chorus is “when things go wrong, go wrong with you, it hurts me too.”

If you could have a super power, what would it be?

The ability to be in two places at once, so that only one of us would have to be at all those meetings.

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