{"id":51008,"date":"2019-08-17T17:11:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-17T07:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.30.214.42\/blog\/?p=51008"},"modified":"2025-07-18T21:35:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T11:35:14","slug":"alan-strickland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writers-exchange.com\/alan-strickland\/","title":{"rendered":"Alan Strickland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Strickland has worked as a freelance technical writer following a long &#8216;dirty hands&#8217; career as an engineer and technician in British and Australian industry. Originally from Carlisle in the north of England he is married, has two adult daughters and a dog and lives in the foothills of Adelaide, South Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst his interests are renewable energy, ecosystems and sustainable living.<\/p>\n<p>Alan is a public speaking tutor and is currently training to become a professional counsellor. He&#8217;s always had a fascination with psychology and an understanding as to what makes people &#8216;tick&#8217; &#8211; why we are as we are. His aim as a counsellor is to specialise in helping people to develop their assertiveness, speaking skills, motivation and\u00a0self confidence.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago Alan realised that some of these aspects of his own life could be improved &#8211; nothing too serious, just needing an overhaul and a bit of a tune up. This book explains how he did it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no rags to riches story. If he&#8217;d turned his life around and made a fortune, Alan would be off enjoying it and not writing\u00a0self help books.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1670\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writers-exchange.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/blue-line.gif?resize=300%2C8&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>Author of:<\/h1>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"GSsnXr34oa\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.writers-exchange.com\/five-key-skills\/\">Five Key Skills By Alan Strickland<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Five Key Skills By Alan Strickland&#8221; &#8212; Writers Exchange E-Publishing\" src=\"https:\/\/www.writers-exchange.com\/five-key-skills\/embed\/#?secret=Q8PVZviYav#?secret=GSsnXr34oa\" data-secret=\"GSsnXr34oa\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Strickland has worked as a freelance technical writer following a long &#8216;dirty hands&#8217; career as an engineer and technician in British and Australian industry. 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