Author: philipdodson

Hi I’m Philip Dodson entrepreneur co-founder of @Work Hubs and founder of Dodson Commercial I am passionate about revolutionising how & where we work, enabling individuals and business to connect, network and grow. Self-employment within the next 7-10 years will become the norm in the developed world, alongside this will be a co-working revolution. The future is all about sharing, collaborating and helping others to succeed. Find out more – @WorkHubs

Lists

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So having just looked at the list of the top 100 most influential entrepreneurs (aka as business people), I thought, who cares? Well, the people on the list probably do.

It’s a bit like any list of ‘top’ whatever’s, the only people who really care are the people on the list and perhaps those who crave to be on the list.

Sadly, society has created this myth that worthiness as a person is defined by others views and what we achieve. It is all part of the homogenised, normalised and mass that has become the world that we live in.

It is easier to make money, control and perpetuate something if it is all the same, including most importantly, how we think.

Real success is what happens inside our own heads, where we recognise our own success according to what success looks like to us and not to society or list makers.

Many of the list fillers, and more likely those who crave to be one, have become conditioned to see these shallow trinkets of achievements as way to feel worthy.

Life’s real successes are personal and it does not matter who knows about them or not, well apart from the really close people in life, who it is great to share success with.

We are not more or less worthy based on what we achieve, or what others think or by the position or even inclusion on a list.

Define your own success, share with those who matter to you and be top of your own list permanently.

Having your cake and eating it

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Rather than getting off the fence, we all too often want our ‘cake and eat it’.

Simply put we want the best of both worlds, we don’t want to feel like we’re missing out on something. So we try hard to achieve too many things all at once, hoping that we can have everything all at the same time.

The thing is, you can have your ‘cake and eat it’ if you focus on what you already have. Most of us already have all that we need in life, yet we expend a huge amount of energy on trying to get things we don’t have or actually don’t need.

What we need, is not more money or possessions, it’s belonging, love, kindness, to feel worthy, people, friends, family and memories of activities we did with the people who matter.

If you realise you will always have the ‘cake’ every day, it’s there because you are choosing happiness and contentment with what you have.

Then you can ‘eat’ and the next day it will be replenished by your mindset, there will be another ‘cake’. We can create all the ‘cakes’ we need. We just need to accept that, be content and enjoy what we have.

Discontent is the tool of the industrialised system to lead us to constantly want more, it is how we feel we are able to reach contentment and happiness. Keep getting more and more. It’s a myth.

Happiness and acceptance of what we have are the perfect antidotes to discontent and feeling inadequate.

We only want the best of both worlds when we are striving for things we don’t have and actually don’t need.

Accept what you have and be happy.