Tag: change

Keeping change going is tough

Posted on by philipdodson

The road to change is a long one and a challenging one at times.

The challenge is, you have to deal with realisations that the person you once were, or still sometimes are, wasn’t always the person that you are proud of. Made choices, that you now see as bad ones.

On the road to change, you have to accept that you were wrong in the past. It takes courage to accept that you were wrong or your choices were bad.

The easy route is to carry on believing that it’s others who were wrong, that you do not need to change.

We are all human, so there is no judgement if we slip occasionally, if we are not perfect. The thing is, if we extend that kindness to ourselves, which we could choose to do, we could also choose to extend that kindness to others, as they are human too.

Learning in front of others

Posted on by philipdodson

Part of my ongoing journey of getting even better at stuff has involved, more recently, admitting to myself that I don’t know everything and I’m doing something about it. What!! You mean Philip you’re actually applying your learning! Well, trying to.

Back to the point. So Martha lent me this ace book by Austin Kleon called ‘Show your Work’ and I’m only just into the first few pages and I’m loving it.

He talks about a notion of learning in front of others. I love this idea. It’s part of what we’ve been doing for a bit at my coworking space with various groups, especially the Working Out Loud group that we ran.

Sharing our story and sharing our learning and then actually doing the future learning in front of others and sharing what goes well and what doesn’t is vulnerable stuff but one that is very liberating and inspiring, it allows others to help.

Receiving help is something I’m shit at, as I think it shows that I’m weak, more of bullshit gender conditioning that we all suffer.

It’s actually the complete opposite, it’s brave to ask for help.

So be prepared I’m doing all my learning in front of others going forward and I’ll need your help.

Learning out loud.