Welcome to Reaching a Better Place.com
What this blog is about:
In notes and journal entries I write about the ideas and observations that have helped me make my life better. Most of them can be adapted by most people, and I write these ones as articles for this blog.
Who’s behind the blog?
Richard Johnson (that’s me) writes the articles. Ever since the age of eight or nine I’ve enjoyed writing and I originally aspired to be a published novelist. And maybe that will still happen one day. But right now I enjoy writing this blog much more than I do fiction, and on the side I teach myself Japanese (something I started doing in my mid-teens), train in Karate and work on new ways to improve myself and my life.
I’m also a university student and I study English Literature and Japanese Anthropology.
Ever since childhood I’ve focused on pursuits that were about improving myself and bettering the life I lead, and the creation of this blog (though actually suggested by Sam) is a natural extension of this.
Sam Charlton does all the ICT stuff: maintaining, building and monitoring the site. Though Sam passed Information Technology A-levels and CISCO with the highest grades he was never taught web design and had to learn it himself to create this blog.
Prior to this Sam won a number of trophies and medals in district sports events and played basketball for the country, but left when he discovered corruption within. Sam has also done work for Electronic Arts and Logica.
We’ve been friends since childhood and though our areas of interest differ massively at times our pursuits of reaching better places in our lives is one thing we’ve always had in common.
What is the ‘better place’?
When Sam and I were trying to think up names for the blog we wanted something tangible and specific to cover a blog topic which is fairly abstract. We settled on Reaching a Better Place. The better place is the next level up in your life, where at least one thing, however small or large, has changed for the better.
Though many of us don’t give it much deliberate thought, we all want to progress up these levels – reaching better and better places. This blog is dedicated to that progression.
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