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One of the biggest obstacles

Posted on by philipdodson

We often analyse and search for what are the obstacles to progress in life. Ironically, thinking and analysing things, is in fact the biggest obstacle.

The more that we think, the more that we analyse, the more we give our inner voice a chance to take over. The strongest part of our inner voice lives in the limbic brain, the chimp brain, this part of the brain is 5 times more powerful than our human, frontal brain.

The chimp in us does not want to be ridiculed, or threatened in anyway, is risk adverse for those reasons and settles for the routine and comfort over starting something new.

As I have blogged more and more, now I rarely struggle with what to write each day, but today I sat and I started to think through ideas, then the chimp brain took over and self doubt crept in. I started to over analyse all the ideas that came into my head, where normally I run with the first idea that comes up, and I just start typing.

This does not mean that we should never analyse or think about things, especially when our emotions have been enagaged, we need time to reflect and that is important.

However, when we have task to start and things to do, just do, count to three and just start, the moment you pause to question, then BAM!!!! we will start to talk ourselves out of it.

Don’t look for obstacles, don’t analyse things that we can not predict anyway, don’t look for certainty, that’s dull. Just start.

Day 154

Posted on by philipdodson

154

This is my 154th day of continuous blog writing.

I’m aiming to do a whole year.

If there is one thing to come out of the journey so far, it is the simple fact that the more you practice something, the better you get.

Success often comes from taking small steps regularly, best on a daily basis, and doing those little tasks as best as we can.

The next step to master is to gradually apply them to more and more things, to build up slowly but surely, more daily success rituals.

This is something I have been working on over the last couple of years, and it is a challenge. In periods of extreme enthusiasm, I can manage for a short burst to stick to 15-20 daily rituals.

However, keeping that many going from a ‘cold’ start is hard. To form any lasting habit you have to do it for a long period without letting up.

So to try and form so many habits all at once is never going to go well.

This year I have been trying to build up slowly and being kinder to myself too when I slip occassionally. Slowly I am building lasting habits, a few things at a time.

Consistency comes from habit and consistency leads to turning plans and ideas into reality.

One habit at a time is what works, not changing everything at once.