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Some days

Posted on by philipdodson

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Some days are a blur, for many, whole weeks, months or even a lifetime.

We’re in another world or just not tuned in.

Often, that is because we believe being almost frantically busy is good.

We have subscribed to the myth that busy and ‘achieving’ things, even if most of them we don’t know why we are doing, equates to success. Ultimately we believe it will make us worthy.

Worthiness and success are not related to achievement.

Busy is often a good way of avoiding something and not dealing with what matters. ‘I have no time for that’.

The key to happiness is to cherish life and the moments that matter, it is to do less, and that means carefully choosing what matters.

Focus only on what matters, what you will remember with real fondness at the end of the journey.

Take your time to enjoy each step of your life.

It’s ok to run out of steam

Posted on by philipdodson

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More than ever there is this pressure to be achieving goals, be busy all the time, and live life to the full.

Some days it’s OK to run out of steam and say ‘manana’ or other such phrases like ‘fu.. it’.

Why is it OK? Because we are a human,not a machine.

If we continue to push ourselves when we’re a bit frazzled, we lose our buzz, and then actually doing more ends up achieving a whole lot less.

Longer term, it’s more important to get to the point, where we organise ourselves more permanently to avoid running out of steam.

What I have learnt over my life is, that it is far better to do less than more. Most of our results come from focusing our efforts on the things that will make a big difference. Learn what they are and then do them.

Being busy is not a recipe for success. Success comes from finding out what matters and doing that, and that only. Positive procrastination, putting off, what is not going to make a difference, permanently.