Experiments in Living
Posted in Personal Growth, Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2008
The college years - part 2
After my French adventure, I returned to Bangor University to complete the final year of my degree. The thing was, it wasn’t the same. Time doesn’t stand still. Just because I was away having this massive experience certainly did not mean that everything was the same when I returned. For [...]
Posted in Personal Growth, Uncategorized on Nov 4th, 2008
A year in France
As I mentioned in Part Two, a large chunk of my motivation for following a languages degree was the opportunity to live and work abroad. I left for Annecy, a beautiful town in the French Alps in the autumn of 1998, to take up a post as an assistant teacher of English [...]
Posted in Personal Growth, Uncategorized on Oct 27th, 2008
This is part of a series, read The Backstory Part 1 here.
The college years - part one
As with many middle class bright young things, I found my way to University. My alma mater is Bangor University, in North Wales. In 1996, I embarked on a degree in French Language for two completely shallow reasons, firstly, [...]
Posted in Personal Growth on Oct 19th, 2008
After the response that I got to my post about the dark side of the law of attraction, I felt the need to elaborate on the alternatives. I pressed my Stumble button today and the first thing it served up was a site called The revolutionary pleasure of thinking for yourself. Maybe I had attracted [...]
Posted in Personal Growth on Oct 13th, 2008
I’m guessing that if you’re reading this post, you have more than a passing interest in personal growth, self-development, raising your consciousness level, call it what you will. And as such, you will have heard many wax lyrical about The Secret and the Law of Attraction. As with anything that “everyone” is talking about, there [...]
