Setting The Scene

I decided to call this blog Freeway to Freedom for a couple of reasons. Firstly because I want to explore the idea of freedom. What does it mean? Am I free? Am I not free? What does it really mean to be free.  

Secondly, because I am fascinated by people. I'm interested in what people do. I'm interested in why people do what they do.  I'm interested in choice and making choices. Why do some people struggle and some people excel?

So I want to combine these two, I want to share what I find on my explorations and if people can benefit from it, then that will make me quite content. 

If people can share with me, what they think and their own journey along their own Freeway to Freedom, that will make me really content.

And lastly, simply, I like how it sounds. 

I just want to go through my background. After College, I worked with a building company in Ireland for a couple of years. I then set off to see the world.

First stop was Japan. A friend had been teaching there so I got a really good immersion into the way of life there. Then I visited Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. I had intended to travel overland in a big loop back to Singapore. This did not happen. I didn’t really move past Vietnam, there my life changed forever. I met my wife Janette.

I then went to Australia. I took a Contiki/Tourbus and travelled from Sydney to Cairns. That took two months, cost $3,000 and added around 10-15kilos to my waistline. But, as the shampoo advert says, I’m worth it.

Then we worked in New Zealand for three years. That was a great experience. Unfortunately, I associated my difficult job with the country and not the circumstance so when the opportunity came to leave, I jumped at it. I have since learned the problem was not so much the place but the person experiencing the place, me.

Then we moved to Australia. I have been here for almost six years and that time has gone really quickly. One of the main reasons I am writing this blog is to document what I am doing now.

I have been given an opportunity to work with an Australian Aboriginal Corporation in a remote town for a short period. It is a concentrated period of skills transfer where I take all I have learned in the last 10+ years of my working life and try to share some of it.

This is what happens.