Articles Tagged ‘Relationships’
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is a book by Daniel Goleman, which I could suggest everyone should read. We all live in a world where hard facts and figures are valued much more than a pleasant hello and a nice thank you. But which are more important in real life?
Yes there are aspects of life and careers that require absolute knowledge. For example, a neuro surgeon would rarely be required to have a good bedside manner with their patient on the operating table. I for one however, will never be a surgeon, nor do I wish to be. It would involve to much responsibility for one such as myself who couldn’t handle …
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So Im in the shower thinking of what to blog today. I realised it has been a few days and while singing along to Jack Johnson I thought I have been rather sick/car update orientated for the past 3 decades it feels, so I wanted a different angle. For those who do not know a thing called christmas is coming so a blog around this made sense. I got to thinking about Mr.Claus and his reindeers and how Rudolph had a weird nose (it was red for any morons out there). Yet despite this he triumphed and led that god damned sleigh with all his heart making christmas happen. This seemed to fit with a blog because despite being an …
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In the style of Jess from the Fast show – “today I will mostly be talking about, the past”!
My grandpa, absolute legend with technology, dug out these 3 newspaper cuttings at my request from many moons ago to enable me to write this blog (http://www.flickr.com/photos/martyn_sibley/sets/72157622856332857/). He is a legend as not many people of his age, let alone full-stop, could scan, save, upload and email this so perfectly. Thanks Gramps J
I’ll start with the picture of me in my new wheelchair pushing the football up the alley-way beside our old bungalow. This came off the back of everyone in my village and further afield hearing that I needed a new wheelchair costing £3,000 of which my parents didn’t happen …
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At work I often deliver training on the issues faced by disabled people and I find there are many who do not see why there are issues for disabled people.
When I explain why, they then ask why others are not doing more. Here, I want to explain this ‘issue’ for anyone else who just hasn’t had the bigger picture explained to them.
For me, I didn’t really see an ‘issue’ either when growing up. Sure I worried about leaving my primary school mates to go to the only accessible secondary school 20 miles away. Sure my wheelchair broke down and it distressed me being stuck. Sure I worried if girls would accept my disability in relationships. But the point …
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As a wheelchair user and also a young, single woman it is easy for me to blame my insecurities about men and relationships on my disability. It has taken me a long time to discover that, just as I have equal opportunities in the rest of my life – I can be educated, work, live where I want, drive a car, drink alcohol, even break the law if I want to – I can also experience the exciting world of relationships just like anyone else.
In fact, unlike all the other things, human relationships are almost the only element of life that cannot be affected by disability – every human has the capacity to love and be loved.
I don’t mean that …
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Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is a book by Daniel Goleman, which I could suggest everyone should read. We all live in a world where hard facts and figures are valued much more than a pleasant hello and a nice thank you. But which are more important in real life?