Tag: Abundance

Hot, damn hot, followed by hot and sticky

Posted on by philipdodson


Life like the weather is a conundrum. 

We spend all year wishing for summer, for hot weather and we spend big sums of money on flying off to hot places on our holidays. 

Yet a few days of heat and everyone is wanting it to be cooler. 

Often in life we wish for something and when it comes we don’t like or want something else. 

Being contrary is common. It comes from a habit and conditioning that gets us to seek and strive for what we don’t have. 

Contented people seek for less and that’s bad for consumption, compliance and business. 

Being happy with what we have removes the pressure for more and leads to contentment, meaning and joy. 

By the way the weather is the weather so just be happy. 

It’s all a bonus

Posted on by philipdodson

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If you start each day accepting that the past has gone, now is all we have, as the future may or may not happen. Then if you tell yourself that you have everything that you need, a home (well for most of us), some food in the fridge, some money in the bank, clothes on our back. We’ve probably got a job, someone who we love, children, friends and maybe a cat or a dog even.

OK, so we might not have absolutely everything, very few have. Then again we don’t need everything. All we need is acceptance of what we have and to choose to be happy with that.

If we start each day by saying ‘I have everything I need, I am going to focus on what I have, not what I don’t’.

Then anything else in life is all a bonus. It’s amazing how good each day can be with that mindset.

Every step of life is all a bonus because one day the journey will end. It’s just a question of how we look at each step.