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Test it

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Philip Dodson blog

When over-thinking kicks in, the longer you let that process run, the less likely you are to do something.

Our limbic brain will talk us out of most things, it’s especially skilled at dangling instant gratification trinkets in front of us. Boy does it know which ones work with us, after all it’s had our lifetime of experience of what weapons to use to thwart us.

The thing is, if you have an idea, unless you test that on an audience, it will always remain an idea.

As time passes the idea will turn into a regret, especially when you see someone who had the courage to test an idea similar to yours. Often in our eyes, we see it as stealing our idea and we get quite indignant.

Then we say ‘well they won’t do it as well as I would’ or we might say ‘well maybe the idea wasn’t for me anyway’.

The fear of not testing an idea prohibits us ever knowing the outcome and think of all those great things we could have created.

Testing doesn’t have to be big, all that is required is to have the courage to try. But that is a small sacrifice versus the pain of not knowing, the regret and the disappointment of seeing others doing it.

So what ideas do you have today, that you could overcome the fear of trying, and go out and test on the world? You never know the outcome and that is the excitement of life, we get to choose which ideas we test out loud or don’t.

Just test something.

Sometimes things turn out different

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Philip Dodson blog

Before we start something, we have an expectation of how things will turn out.

We imagine in our mind what the outcome will be, we then think about how our life will be once that outcome has been achieved.

Often, though when you commence something, it turns out quite different to how we anticipated the outcome. Sometimes straight away, and sometimes it can take a while to vary.

The fact that things turn out differently is good, as more often than not, our expectations tend to be lower rather than higher. Equally, if things always turned out how we expected it would make life dull, and given our tendency to be less positive as a default, we would probably not start anything.

That is how many of us can end up in life. We are conditioned to fear the worst, we are almost taught this nonsense that ‘if you fear the worst, then anything will be a bonus’.

So maybe, we can learn to start off expecting the best, even if it turns out worse than we expected, there will always be learning and therefore it was always worth starting something.

Different is good, and whatever way things turn out, it is always worth starting something.