Looking back at 2009

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And I have to say, it's quite sad. I'm just porting all the old posts over from the old blog, and I'm currently at the Phantasy Star Universe stage. I mean, I know videogames had a big hold on my life, but imagine if I had devoted myself with such vigour to philosophy and psychology instead of a videogame. Imagine…

Site update

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I'm moving all the posts over from my old blog, and I'm doing it manually so i can fine tune them a little, for example making sure all their tags are relevant and consistent, they all conform to the correct category, and I'm seeing if they could be organised to make things a little easier to find. I've added some…

Nice day

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Today feels a little bit like before Jake was born, back when I had unlimited free time. Man, I had such narrow perceptions of that unlimited free time. I have purpose and drive now. I thought I used to have it. Turns out I was wrong. No urgency. No haste. I'm just spending the day messing with this website, trying…

On hold. What to do?

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Potentially, I may have to hold fire on continuing my Counselling training for this upcoming academic year. We booked our annual holiday pretty much as soon as we came back off of our holiday last year, and it happened to coincide with the external assessment for my counselling course. So the problem is that I can't take the assessment because…

n00b gainz

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Exercising is fun, and as the title suggests, I've made some n00b gainz. My trousers are looser, so I've clearly lost some belly fat. My weight has remained the same however, so I have built some muscle. I do feel like I need to go more than once a week to cement these gainz in the long run though. And…
Workshopping

Workshopping

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I had a workshop day for my counselling skills training course this week. We were using the Johari Window and making masks of our Open Selves and being brave and revealing an aspect of our Hidden Selves which in turn let others tell you something about your Blind Self... It was quite fun and quite eye-opening. One aspect of my…

“The Mission” begins anew every day

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"The Mission" began in February 2017 when I committed myself to eternal self-improvement. Every day I must improve my life or the life of someone around me. I gave a work colleague my old copy of Allen Carr's "EasyWay to Stop Smoking", it worked for me, I hope it works for her. She had a health scare recently, and despite…