A tale of a life reshaped
I’m doing some coaching work at the moment with www.sixminutestosuccess.com which is a website with a series of informational videos by Bob Proctor one of the world’s leading personal development coaches. Yesterday I watched a particular video that really stuck with me. It was called the stick figure. Basically it’s the idea that our processes [...]
Are you an Outlier? I know I’m not. In fact I’m very average in every way, apart from the fact that I’m not. Average that is. Because there simply isn’t an “average” person. There is literally far too many permutations of knowledge and beliefs across society for there to actually be an average person. Perhaps [...]
Today is just another day. My world is still ticking along. Things are proceeding in my life, it feels like snail speed, but proceeding none the less. And that’s good. I have a plan you see. I have a goal and a place I want to get to. My dream is to work for myself, [...]
I like to help people. It makes me happy to be able to do something that in some way aids another person. You’d think that I would be help, help, help all the time then and sometimes I am but mostly, not so much. And there’s a very specific reason for that. Helping in some [...]
I’m feeling pensive and frustrated and generally not very happy or communicative today so it’s a bit of a challenge to write a blog post. I feel like a failure. I feel sad about being so different from mainstream society. I feel overwhelmed with the challenges ahead of me and just basically too ineffectual to [...]
The rhetoric about fat and people who are fat is really intense and nasty and I’ve decided that I would really like to focus on things that make more sense. But it makes me sad. Really sad. There’s so much discussion about what to do about the fat people, especially the fat children. It feels [...]
I’m reading this great book at the moment, Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, and one of the concepts it talks about is how much cultural norms effect the way that we interact with each other. The concept is discussed in terms of air traffic crashes and how the way that people interact, specifically in this case [...]
I was reading the other day a post about the idiocy of taking children away from their parents because they’re fat. The post was written from the point of view of a social worker and noting how much difficulty that would cause, particularly in the face of the already overworked system that’s having trouble coping [...]
I’ve started this post over a half dozen times already because I’ve been having trouble getting my head around what it is that I want to say. You see I woke up this morning feeling grumpy. I’m tired, I have a headache and I feel really doubtful about what I’m doing. My goal here, in [...]
I don’t watch television much any more. I started talking about that a couple of days ago before going off on a rant about some stupidity that I did watch. But I don’t as a rule, watch TV that is. There’s a few reasons for that. Mostly I’m fairly busy doing all sorts of other [...]
I’m really enjoying NaBloPoMo; it’s a great opportunity for me to really explore a subject that’s been going around and around in my head lately. EMBRACING FAT ACCEPTANCE POST #4 One of the things that I really wanted to achieve with this series of posts is an examination of what I’ve been thinking and feeling [...]
HOW MUCH TRUTH IS IN OUR TRUTHS? POST #7 For the longest time the ‘common’ treatment for burns was to put butter on it. When my partner, who’s nine year older than me, first told me this I was sure he was joking. As long as I can remember the first aid treatment for burns [...]
Yesterday I let loose about the idiocy of taking children away from a loving, supportive home because they’re fat. Some people would argue that if a child is fat then the home is not loving and supportive. That’s ridiculous and shows a complete lack of understanding of obesity itself, dynamics of families and the damage [...]
