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Let’s get this revolution well and truly going.

Posted on by philipdodson

You see previously if you wanted to change the system, you had to be prepared to take up arms and you needed to have a lot of muscle, money and influence.

revolution - Philip Dodson

Now there is no need for a musket or £millions, you still need influence though. That’s what is great about today’s connected world, is that if you have the right message that others what to align to or they share the same values and desires, then you can connect with them online through social media and blogs etc.

So the need to make change happen by force is now redundant, you can make the change by spreading the message to your followers. The following will increase if enough people like the message and want to spread it to others for you.It takes time, unless you’re a celebrity, but if you want to do your bit to help change happen then you have to put the work in.

There are a growing number of people worldwide, who have (as I blogged about before) discovered, that we have all been fed a ‘crock of shit’. That the top 1%, who have all the money and power, are screwing all of us over and that inequality gap is growing wider and wider at an alarming rate.

There are a growing number of us fed up by being taken for a ride and are fed up with the ‘old school’ system, that has ruined the world and is still continuing to take it further and further down, for the benefit of a tiny, tiny select few.

Our freedoms are gradually being further and further eroded, especially as the establishment see the threat that social media and internet is becoming to their cushy little tea party,

What is happening with virtual currencies, the sharing economy, the likes of people such as Russell Brand and many others, who are now openly challenging the established world order, is that there is momentum growing, more and more people are start to look at things differently.

The current world order is driven by consumerism, by fear, by scarcity, by money, by profits, by anything but people. More and more of us now have grown tired of that and we now want to see a world based on communities, on helping others, on putting people first.

This is what is one of the driving forces behind the self-employment revolution and the rise of the sharing economy, coworking and social enterprise.

We are standing at the edge of the abyss, we are at a fork in the road for humanity.

It is time to tear down that world that has kept all of working as slaves to the system, so that top 1% can keep themselves at the top.

Most people will just work to scrape by in life, there is no more cheap food, no more cheap utilities, the scarcity economy has seen to that. So most people earn enough to survive, now relatively compared to billions in developed nations, most of us are doing OK. But increasingly all we are doing is to work all hours to then spend all our money on materials and just consume.

This is what the system wants us to do, keep consuming, buying shit we really don’t need. The endless pressure on all of us is relentless and if you haven’t got the latest this and that, then you’re a loser.

So it is time to stop this and time to start spreading the word and to stop consuming, stop worshipping money, stop work for others in shitty jobs that we hate.

It is time to stand up to all of this, stop buying your food at Tesco’s, stop buying Starbucks who never pay tax, stop eating junk food and processed food that is full of sugar and salt, which is going to turn out to be a bigger killer than tobacco.

It is predicted now that the younger generations will now for the first time have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

By 2050 1/3 of the US will be diabetic, yet we are feeding ourselves sugary crap on a daily basis and governments go hand in hand with giant food corps the world over to promote it.

There is still people clamouring for cigarettes to be outlawed etc, forget that, heart, diabetes, and circulatory diseases will dwarf that.

There is a globally epidemic relating to health, there is a global widening of the wealth inequality, the is worsening health, there is a rising population with dwindling resources.

There are now people being arrested in the US who feed homeless people because businesses see homeless people like litter and that they have a detrimental effect on the their business and profits.

So if you are sick of the way the world is run, don’t wait for it to change, start connecting with others on social media, influence friends, write blogs, share other peoples stuff. Take ownership, stop buying stuff you don’t really need, share and help others. Stop supporting the party political system regardless of their ‘flavour’ – they are all only there to serve themsleves, stay in power and do what their narrow base of financial supporters want.

If like me you have had enough of the old school world, then let’s start the revolution now.

Commitment

Posted on by philipdodson

I got up and went into to work on Saturday. I am finding more and more, that I am committing to things that I say I am going to do.

Comittment

It is a discipline that is building and forming a habit, one which is starting to grow and grow.

The things is, in the past and until more recently, I have at times said that I was going to get something done and due to a number of factors, one especially being focus, often it didn’t get done or wasn’t done promptly. Focus is something that has always been hard for me.

All my life from whenever I can remember, until more recently, I have been easily distracted, which I think is due to the fact that I felt that there was always something better going on. Thus, if I didn’t stop and find out, then I might be missing something. I have learnt that it’s better to focus on what you’re doing and create your own ‘better things’.

This has carried on to a certain extent into adult life and the lack of focus has at time cost me dearly.

Doing this writing everyday on 750words.com has been a real winner, as it is a commitment and like everything in life, we have to be committed, whatever we are doing.

It isn’t all about work, it’s about life, as life and work are the same thing. Relationships take commitment, losing weight needs commitment, getting fit needs commitment, eating more healthily takes commitment and so on.

So for me doing this writing is having a massive effect on helping me to learn commitment in everything that I am doing. As the commitment thing grows, guess what you start to get more done and getting more done leads to better results. Better results gives you more confidence and so the cycle continues.

As you gain confidence you take on more and add in the commitment to that and guess what? you get more good results.

So for me it is all about challenging the gremlins, challenging the ‘truths’ that we tell ourselves in our head. I am on a mission to defeat those gremlins and replace them with positive auto-pilots in my brain, so that future good behaviour becomes automatic.

I was one of those people who used to believe that ‘leopards can’t change their spots’. However, I now believe (sounds like I’m some preacher!) that you can change almost anything if you are determined enough to do so.

So I have in the last 18-24 months dealt with many of these gremlins and like all of us, I have shied away from some of the more difficult ones, as I now deep down that these are going to be the toughest and they are some of the habits that I have had all my life.

One of the biggest ones that I have nailed in the last the 3-4 years was my habit of over eating, drinking too heavily and eating the wrong type of food.

That one was a BIG ONE and it has been hard, so hard. But now after many years, it is well and truly beaten, that gremlin, which I have had all my life, has gone. I used to comfort eat and drink, I used to eat mainly good quality food, but all the wrong things for health.

I have gone form nearly 23 stone to 15 1/2 in 4 years and gone from a XXXL to L and gone from a 44 inch waist to a 32. I have literally shrunk myself back to how I was in my mid to late 30’s.

I now know completely, that I will never go back to that life again. Occasionally now, I go ‘off the rails’,however, I immediately get back on it and it never has a chance to become a habit.

Now the one I have killed just recently, which wasn’t with me all my life, in fact, it came about in my early 40’s, when I’d lost all my self-confidence, was the over-thinking gremlin, which leads to indecision and inaction. Over-thinking is a bad one, as you end up talking yourself out of doing most things and that then kills your self-confidence further. As you say that you are going to do something, then the gremlins hijack that and help your ‘chimp’ brain to convince you not to do something. The longer you think, the less likely you are to do that thing.

So that one is gradually being dealt with and that is helping me massively grow the auto-pilot of commitment. Commitment helps with the curse of instant gratification, which is another issue.

I’ve grown up in world that has created/massively encouraged instant gratification and that is the antithesis of doing, as you will always opt for something ‘now’ without committing to building something sustainable for the future. So you are not prepared to sacrifice things for later gain.

The later gain, if you commit and sacrifice for long enough, is always better than the short-term now gain. This is because the compound effect builds momentum and that then creates something much more rewarding than anything you can get easily now.

Commitment is one of the biggest keys to success in life.