Personal Development through Thinking

About this Blog

If you are as fed up as I am with people writing articles on personal development that are founded on nothing more than wishful thinking, then this is the place for you.
I want this blog to give people in crisis - or just needing direction - information, which enables them to look at their problems anew. Their problem or problems may continue but a new perspective might lessen the problems magnitude making it easier to deal with, or even resolve. For example, the pain of facing a divorce that either you don’t want or do want may not be lessened by having a different perspective, but it may help strengthen the way you are able to deal with it.

It is not because I believe I have all the answers to life’s problems that I wanted to start this blog. It is because I believe I have some of the questions that need to be asked in order to live life well.

I know there is a debate over whether or not adverts should be used on blogs as basically it makes them more commercial and less personal. I don’t believe the personal elements of this site will be changed by advertising. And let’s face it, sometimes they are really useful. I use them here because I hope to pay for the site. I really want to see it grow. I think the advertsing will be justified by the time and effort I am willing to spend developing it.

Please sign up and leave your comments and periodically return to see this site grow. I am in the process of writing a longer version about me that might be of interest to some of you. I don’t do it for a personal catharsis as I think my training and my life have already done that. I do it for the sake of honesty for people coming to visit my blog.

The blog’s theme
This blog will be on the theme of personal development. It will look at personal development through thinking inspired by philosophy, counselling, and observation. There are a world of significant others out there.

It may sound strange to say we can develop through thinking because we are thinking all the time. I have to agree that we, human beings, are thinking all the time but how much of it is structured, and examined? For example, when you think and react to the expensive holiday your neighbour has just taken, which you cannot afford, do you question your thoughts? What informs your thinking about your neighbour or friend? What is your justification for saying your partner is unkind? What makes it right for you to criticise your partner? What is missing in your relationship? There are many more questions we could ask that focus us on our ideas about life. In focusing we sometimes become aware of incoherent thoughts being simply accepted rather than challenged. Challenging thoughts like this and understanding ourselves in relation to the world around us can bring a very different kind of peace.

I want to use philsopohy here - hey! don’t run off - but in a non-academic way. Philosophy can be thought provoking but for me practically useless when left in the hands of intellectual snobs. At least art can be appreciated by a great many people in as many different ways. This will be a place where I hope philosophy can come to life in an understandable way, a way which can change your thinking, your immedicate circumstances, and also your emotional life. I will also be discussing problems from a counselling point of view. 

This blog will be informative, inspiring, and sometimes funny. Most of all I hope you can benefit from it. The benefit will either be that you completely disagree with what is said here, which I hope inspires you to thinking, or that you agree and are still inspired. There will also be some words of wisdom from many of the great philosophers. The Blog’s topics will all generally connect in some way to this life we all have and how we live it.

Thanks for taking the time to be here and I wish you well.