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My 100 Goals: Crazy Idea 16 - Create full employment
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My original 100 goals. Monday, 1 December 2014. Crazy Idea 16 - Create full employment. Once I started looking into the UK Budget, I started playing around with the numbers and found an interesting fact: full employment in the UK is possible. According to the ONS. From July to September 2014, unemployment fell to 1.96 million. (CI016A). I can’t just state that government statistic without pointing out that according to The Guardian. Anyway. Minimum wage. A smidge under £25 Billion! It is a fact that ther...
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My 100 Goals: July 2014
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My original 100 goals. Tuesday, 29 July 2014. The Great Scottish Land Grab Book Two published! Book two of The Great Scottish Land Grab went live on Amazon Kindle today :. The First Minister is missing. Scotland is divided… The referendum is in crisis. Only one man has a vision for Scotland that could unite both sides in the independence debate. But if the First Minister is not found, it will not just be the referendum at stake but the government of Scotland. 8220;Power to the people! Really enjoyed this...
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My 100 Goals: September 2014
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My original 100 goals. Thursday, 18 September 2014. Freedom is a Sweet Word. Freedom is a sweet word – a word that resonates within me. A rebel cry that declares my desire for. For what? A little known band from the Eighties – Fat and Frantic – are responsible for that twist. I’ve had the lyrics for their song – Freedom is a sweet word – going round my head for weeks. An a capella number that still has the power to haunt me. We may gain independence after September 18. But will we gain justice? We have f...
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My 100 Goals: August 2014
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My original 100 goals. Wednesday, 20 August 2014. From puff the magic dragon to the magic fountain. My wife and I desperately wanted to see the famous Gaudi dragon while in Barcelona. Turns out that Park Guell where it's located isn't entirely free to walk around. To see the amazing architecture and statues up close you need to book in advance and pay. I'm not going to comment any more except to say if you like beauty, there is a lot of it to be found in Barcelona. Puff the magic dragon. I assumed footba...
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My 100 Goals: December 2013
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My original 100 goals. Thursday, 12 December 2013. 100,000 words - a shout out. I reached a major milestone today, passing 100,000 words written on my novel. I've known for weeks, maybe months that this would only be a milestone and would not signify the completion of my goal to publish a novel. How many words is enough? Every novel is different but I know the story is far from over and so I need to continue writing until it is complete. Back in 2009 I wrote about my plan to succeed as a writer. This wee...
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My 100 Goals: Crazy Idea 33 - Accept responsibility for our lives
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My original 100 goals. Friday, 16 January 2015. Crazy Idea 33 - Accept responsibility for our lives. If you're reading this blog it's likely you'll be an adult. In theory, being an adult means we are responsible for our lives. In practice, many adults abdicate responsibility. To a greater or lesser degree, many possibly never even realise they could or should be responsible for their actions. Movie spoilers will follow! This week I finally watched the movie: Lucy. Visually, Lucy as a film is extremely be...
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My 100 Goals: Flood and Fire
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My original 100 goals. Monday, 12 January 2015. We were out over the weekend and came back to find the front of our house flooded again. A short burst of torrential rain and the drains were unable to cope:. A couple of years ago many parts of Cumbernauld were flooded during a freak rain storm, our house included. The council did clear the drains afterwards and that helped but did not stop flooding completely. The experience reminded me of the need to clarify who owns the land; gain planning permission to...
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My 100 Goals: January 2014
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My original 100 goals. Sunday, 5 January 2014. I'm not a fan of odd numbered years. It's not rational but there you are. I have plenty of reasons to like odd years and odd numbered dates for that matter, but I prefer even numbered. Give me the choice of living in a pentagon shaped house and a hexagon one and I'd probably prefer the hexagon. I wasn't looking forward to 2013. 2012 was a good year. A fun year. Turned out that installing a shower downstairs was just about all I could manage last year. At...
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My 100 Goals: My original 100 goals
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My original 100 goals. My original 100 goals. Round about 2007 I decided I had three goals I wanted to achieve before I was 40 but each seemed impossibly large and I was unsure I could achieve any, let alone all three in the five years remaining. My original three goals were:. Complete a degree qualification. Be earning £40,000 a year (One thousand pounds for each year's life experience). One suggestion I found in Brian Tracy's book Goals! I am hoping that as I achieve my goals, my vision and expectation...
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Post-pilgrimage thoughts | Repenting of homophobia
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Love is the fulfilling of the law (Romans 13,10). How you can help. It’s just over two weeks since I finished my pilgrimage of repentance for homophobia. I walked over 160 miles from Birmingham to London, arriving in time to join the Pride march on 2 July. From a constructive conversation over corn flakes with a minister who disagreed with me, to an informal chat with members of a house church in someone’s living room, the experiences on my walk were a living reminder that both dialogue and change ...
