Aladin’s genie called “Personal Development”

So you think you get life? I did too until Aladin’s Genie appeared and rocked my world!

Feeling hopeless and in need of inspiration

Aged 23 and feeling disheartened. Shuffling my feet, I walked into a personal development seminar wearing an “I can’t be bothered” attitude. My mother and I had bought tickets to listen to a professional self-help speaker named Michael Domeyko Rowland. At that time, I was in my final year of university and should have been feeling excited about the career that ensued. Instead, I felt despair, dejection and hopeless.

You see I had spent 12 months working in my chosen field through university and I hated the experience. Whist I met some lovely people working in a hospital environment, I could not bear the thought of spending the next 40 years of my life working in a diagnostic laboratory. The sterility of that environment was a far cry from the magic of chemistry that piqued my interest in science as a teenager. Think beakers, Bunsen burners and explosions.

A conditioned path

With a negative outlook, I sat down in the audience and thought “this is going to be a complete waste of my time” and “I wish I was socializing with my friends.” As a university student the socialization aspect was lots of fun…