Tag: belief

‘Just keep swimming’

Posted on by philipdodson

A phrase that was made famous from the Pixar film ‘Finding Nemo’ where Dory, a blue tang fish, with a bit of a memory problem, says ‘just keep swimming’ to keep everyone going towards the search for the missing Nemo. Especially, she uses it when they reach the usual challenges in their search that such film genres have as part of the plot of making the film engaging. Often at the point when others perhaps are disheartened and feel like giving up

OK, so life is a little different to an animated Pixar film based on humanised fish, but the phrase ‘just keep swimming’ is one that fits as a reminder that often in life we have to just keep going. Sure, with things that are outside of our control, like everything except what we do, then letting go and leaving it is the right answer.

But with ourselves, we have to have a bit of perseverance and determination, especially during the hard times, when we are challenged and pushed to the limit of our self-belief and resilience. This is not some macho strength thing, this about keeping our faith, adapting and keep trying.

If you persist, you get there. As I said yesterday, the last freedom we have that can never be taken away is our freedom of choice of how to react.

Just keep swimming, believe and great things come.

It always comes good

Posted on by philipdodson

Life is full of challenges, and frankly, without them, we would not learn, we would have little motivation or inspiration and it would be dull.

Challenges are what keeps us going.

It is how we choose to react to the challenges of life that define the outcome and how our journey gets better not stuck.

If we have a positive approach to challenges and if we have faith in the fact, that if we have this mindset, things always come good.

If we are prepared to see each challenge as an opportunity to grow, to learn, to become a better version of ourselves, then we will have the inspiration and the right strategy to overcome that challenge, and from that process we build resilience.

That increased resilience is built by the right mindset and it allows us to become stronger and stronger at overcoming setbacks, it helps us evolve.

The last thing to add to the commitment to succeed is patience.

Being patient enables us to respond with the right strategy and that then brings about the right solution and always coming good happens because of it.

When we are patient, we are calm and being calm is exactly what we need in challenging times.

When you have faith that it will be alright, you can relax and take the longer term approach, no need for short-term fixes and knee-jerk reactions.

Life always comes good with the right attitude.