The Happy and Prosperous Blog

In this 4 (maybe 5) part series I want to share with you a small excerpt from my personal history. I want to tell you about the time, a few years ago, when I decided to leave my long-term employment in the corporate world and head off on my own. I want to tell you this to illustrate some points about what I learned in the process which may, perhaps, help you in some way.

Before we start I want to appreciate a fellow blogger, SelfMadeChick, for her recent post which talks about telling a story in a blog post. Thanks Christine for the inspiration.

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Setting The Scene

Back in 1998 I was a hard-working Project Manager in the IT department of a large bank in the UK. I was doing OK and I was being paid pretty well. I’d been working for the bank for over 10 years and I had progressed up through the organisation doing various computer related jobs including doing 18 months consultancy in Madrid with a subsidiary there. I was not in love with my job and I didn’t hate it either. I was dissatisfied in some small way and, I suppose, I was wondering if this was all there was to a working life. It was like having an itch somewhere inside me that I couldn’t scratch.

Homeopathic Treatment for My Son

A year or so before this, my son (aged around 6 then) went for some homeopathic treatment for the asthma that he had been diagnosed with. He’d had the steroid inhalers and they were working but I was concerned about long term steroid use and the possible side-effects. I didn’t know what a homeopath was in any detail, but a friend had suggested this form of complementary medicine as another way of treating his asthma.

To cut a long story short, 2 doses of a homeopathic remedy, seemed to shift his asthma and we reduced his steroids to the point that he didn’t need them any more and he was absolutely fine.

Denial and Curiosity

Given my scientific training (degree in Chemistry), I couldn’t understand how homeopathy could work. My reaction was partly denial and partly curiosity. The curiosity won out and I started to find out more about homeopathy. I got books out of the library and educated myself a little. The more I read the more fascinated I became.

In the next post in the series, I will tell you about the start of a change.

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