Eating your own dog food

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I’m sat here thinking about things before doing today’s post. I realised that I am super great at offering my advice to others and yet when it comes to me, and what I do, at times I don’t always eat my own dog food, which seems a little daft, to be honest.

We perhaps think that other people’s challenges are easier to solve or perhaps because our challenges are naturally more important to us, we seem to freeze on advising ourselves. Or think well that won’t work for us, then fear takes over and we don’t act.

Sure, it is important to get advice, listen to, read, talk and get inspiration from others, that’s how we learn. But if you have, like all of us accumulated all this learning from our life experiences, then it might be a good idea to apply some of that, if not all of it, to our own lives.

The biggest experts on our lives is ourselves, after all, we have been on every single step of the journey and we do actually deep down know what is good for us.

The buck stops with us, we can choose to eat our own dog food or not.

It’s all a bonus

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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.