Tag: autopilot

14

Posted on by philipdodson

I picked a random number and now I am writing about it.

14.

It is two weeks.

Two weeks, what could you do in two whole weeks?

Maybe you could write a book, paint your house, learn to dance, go on a trip, improve your business, change a relationship, who knows?

We do not know what life will throw at us at any point, yet often two weeks of our lives will drift by on autopilot in a blur and we would not even notice what we had done or missed.

Take the next two weeks and do something new, something amazing, do something different for the next two weeks and see where it leads to.

Tell someone every day for two weeks that you love them, smile at a stranger for 14 days in a row, eat one less thing for 14 days, walk for 15 minutes every day, watch 30 minutes less YouTube, call one person, do some act of generosity and kindness each day, whatever it is, do it 14 times.

You’ll never know unless you try.

What will you do different just 14 times?

Autopilot, why do we do it?

Posted on by philipdodson

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How often do we stop and ask ourselves why we do what we do each day?

The things that we habitually do, the routines that we have, do we stop and question it?

I am not talking about why do we brush our teeth, however, there a great number of things that we do at home or work each day, that we do on autopilot.

We have much of our lives on autopilot, why not switch it off and try flying by instinct and perhaps take a different route. After all, it might turn up some real surprises that we glide past every day without noticing.