Tag: change

Never underestimate what you do

Posted on by philipdodson

Today is the 44th anniversary of Hip Hop, according to Google, when on the 11th August 1973 a DJ known as Kool Herc invented the elongated ‘break’ that lead to the start of Hip Hop.

The thing is when he did that, he would have had no idea what was going to evolve from that and the changes that happened in music and culture from there.

We never know what will come from the things that we create, it’s uncertain and therefore it is not to be underestimated.

The one certainty is if we don’t create nothing will change or happen.

None of us knows where our creations will lead us and effects it could bring to the world.

Just keeping going.

Never moan, ‘vote with your feet’

Posted on by philipdodson

There has been a good deal of moaning and criticism of British Gas’s announcement to increase prices by 12%, hardly justified for a private company that saw profits of £1.6 billion just two years ago. Especially, as other energy suppliers will follow suit no doubt and this is the worst situation for the consumer, a private cartel controlled monopoly.

None of the moaning, however, will influence anyone at British Gas to not put up their prices.

However, many people have ‘voted with their feet’ in recent years, like 377,000 have left them to another supplier. This has led, along with some other bad business decisions, to a major fall in profits. Before you start feeling sorry for them they still made a hefty profit.

As the Dalai Lama said ‘if you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a room with a mosquito’.

We all have the power to make change happen if we choose. If we are unhappy we can ‘vote with our feet’ and it is far more powerful than we realise.