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Having just had an annoying experience attempting to buy some items online I thought I would post my experience here and see if it strikes a chord with other people.

I went to a website to purchase some items for a forthcoming trip, they had just what I wanted or near enough to make no difference, so I put the items into the online shopping basket and clicked the checkout button.

First gripe, why do so many of these online sites want you to create an account, I do not want my details littered all over the internet on unsecured databases behind sites which I have purchased one item from once in my lifetime, in the current climate of identity theft and fraud it dones not seem the best thing to be doing.

So I created an account and got to the payment screen, I intended paying using my Visa Debit card, it used to be simple, select card Amex/Master/Visa/JCB possibly one or two others but it is immediately obvious what you need to select, now particularly with Visa there is a list of three or four different sorts of Visa card, I am not interested in twenty questions to simply make my payment, the payment system can work it out from the card number what type of Visa card it is, it could probably even work out what sort of card it is completely from that, so why do I need to make a guess as to what this site is currently calling my card and get an authorisation declined message when I get it wrong.

Bottom line, maybe its time for some of these sites to revisit there checkout systems, and do some useability testing on them, and design a system that actually helps people purchase items instead of making it as difficult as possible.

Well its been a couple of months at least since I completed the sessions of hynotherapy, 4 in total, so has it helped?, an emphatic yes, I am now driving a round trip of about 65 miles a day to and from work and it does not bother me.

Before I started the course I was seriously wondering if I was going to be able to do this 6 month contract by commuting or whether I would have to take accommodation in the week local to work. The journeys where the high/low point of the day, now I don’t really consider them and just admire the scenery on the way.

So what next with this, well I plan to arrange another session with Cino where he said he would teach me self hypnosis, the reason for this is I am starting some Stock market trading, using CFD’s, Spread bets, and Fixed bets, and doing some research it seems a message coming loud and clear from all good traders is the mental side is important. So I want to be able to tweak myself as required when necessary.

I also plan to keep a bit of a log on here of my trading adventures. So watch this blog

Well after many years of nonsense, it all started some time back in the early 90’s, I have finally had enough of being crippled and decided it is time to do something about by driving problems. It is silly, I have driven all over the country, thousands of miles on busy motorways, and now I can barely face a busy fast road, and have not driven on a motorway for years.

It is very irritating to have to plan journeys by back roads everywhere, if I try to go along what would be considered the sensible route I either have to dive of down a lane or give up, its not something I can simply ignore, believe me I have tried. What happens then is I virtually freeze up and go slower and slower which simply compounds the problem.

What to do?, I got talking to someone I met recently, Cino, and it turns out that he is a trained hypnotherapist, I told him my problem and he said he could probably help me with it. Well I have had one session so far, he reckons it will take three or four sessions, but already I can feel the difference, just more relaxed and in control, and its affected other areas of my life apart from my driving. I went to the first session on Friday, and over the last few days since then I have done several jobs I had been putting of because I simply feel more in control and able to get things done.

Well I was not sure to start with but I am a convert, I definitely recommend hypnotherapy, and Cino at www.cbhypnotherapy.co.uk in particular.