Tag: Blogging

80 days

Posted on by philipdodson

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What can you achieve in 80 days? Well you could go around the world in it.

Well today is day number 80, of 80 straight days in a row, of writing and posting a blog post each day. I am aiming to do a whole year, 365 days. So I’m about a quarter of the way through.

I am not posting this to say ‘wow, look at me’, as apart from my Mum, no one cares.

I am posting this to get you to think about what you could achieve in your life, if you stuck to doing something every single day?

One of my challenges in life has been commitment to doing something regularly, even though, I know that doing things regularly is vitally important in being successful.

I talked only yesterday about changing habits, and that is what this writing is doing for me. I love doing the writing anyway and I genuinely write this for myself. However, seeing how the number of views, visitors and likes have been growing, and now starting to really grow, has proved to me that commitment works.

Nearly 3 months in, and the start of what Darren Hardy describes as the compound effect, is starting to happen. I am now more than ever inspired to keep going.

Now the key thing is to apply this learning to other areas.

Don’t over engineer

Posted on by philipdodson

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All too often in life we try too hard to make something happen.

Our desire to make something happen is very strong at times, even though the only thing we can control is ourselves. Yet, we many times get hell bent on engineering an outcome.

Most humans resent or rebel when their freedoms are compromised by others, and the more that is forced, the more we tend to rebel and the less likely the outcome, that the controller wants to make happen, happens.

We all would recognise this when we are on the receiving end, yet when we have that strong urge to get something to happen how we want, we then seem to forget all about that, and end up going head first into forcing something.

Don’t over engineer outcomes, in fact try hard not to engineer anything with a overly selfish motive behind it, as the best things in life happen naturally, unforced and out of serendipitous moments.

The more you relax and stop swimming against the tide, the more you are just yourself, the less you deliberately seek something.

Then we send out the right signals, and allow others to make their own minds up. It is better that the other person choices the outcome we want, because it is something that they are inspired by, not something we have manipulated or motivated them to choose.

This all comes down to the audiences we choose too, if you are surrounded by the right people, who like you and your values, then the are more likely to be inspired to choose what you stand for, and the less you will need to over engineer.