Tag: Business

Work with people who you love

Posted on by philipdodson

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I grew up with the mentality that you keep personal life and work life separate, always being the boss first and then the ‘buddy’. This idea that we can not work with friends, they are not that, they are employees.

The fact is work is life and if we are genuinely going to live a meaningful, soulful and fulfilled life, we need to be ourselves always. Ditch this work mask or home mask, be you all the time. Don’t have masks.

That then leads us to want to work with people who we can trust, who we would invite home for dinner, to people who we feel comfortable and connected to, people who share similar values and world views. We can then enjoy and have fun at work, it’s allowed you know.

We want to run a business or be part of a business that attracts like-minded people as customers and works colleagues. We are not for everyone and nor is every business. So why try to be all things to all people. Stop, just be you.

Do what you love doing with people you love and create something that others will fall in love with.

Why wouldn’t you be you?

If you had just one day

Posted on by philipdodson



Prioritising what thing to do first is always a challenge.

But what if you had just more day before a long holiday?

What would you do first?

Would you tidy up all the icons on your desktop? Would you clear up your bookshelf in the office? Would you straighten up a picture on the wall? Would you change the font on your website? Or would you do something that propelled you closer to your goals? Something that led to a new customer signup? and so on.

Ok, so a little loaded.

But, the point is, the more time and options we give ourselves, the more likely we will seek refuge in the easy and not so important tasks to feel busy.

If it is important it will be challenging and it will create some fear of starting it.

Those are the things that we could choose to start first every day.

It is a choice and choosing it leads to change, and it becomes an addictive habit once we realise we are getting closer and closer to our goals and seeing better results.

Shorten the time horizons whenever you can, lessen the options to choose from and get more done.