Tag: change

The self-discipline trap

Posted on by philipdodson

We can shortcut self-discipline by blocking sites, putting a lock on the fridge, not having chocolate cakes in the house, not buying cigarettes to stop smoking and removing from our lives things we can not seem to stop taking, having, doing and so on.

But it is just that. It’s a trap. We believe that we have overcome a habit or dealt with a demon. We haven’t really overcome something, we have simply ‘handcuffed’ ourselves, blocked it out, but deep down the behaviour is still there.

The hard part is to stop eating cake when the cake is sat right in front of us.

To do that we have to understand why we keep doing something and then to change our habits.

Blocks, locks, and denial are a short-term fix, building a habit without the block based on a desire to want to change, is the only long-term solution.

We will only apply the real self-discipline needed to build the habit that creates lasting change once we are inspired to do so.

Seek the demon, explore why we behave that way, build strategies and then apply new habits to change that behaviour.

It’s easier said than done, but if we want lasting change, there is has to be a trade between easy fixes and commitment.

Terror

Posted on by philipdodson

It only works if we allow it too.

The more we fear the more we can be terrorised.

We can only die once, yet many of us allow ourselves to die thousands of imagined deaths.

Terror and other fears, such as diseases etc, enables dependence on and compliance with the state on many things that viewed in isolation we would seem as unreasonable, ridiculous or an intrusion on our freedom and privacy.

The real controllers of the world peddle terror via the media and the nation states they control. In fact with such success, that many are in almost hysterical state of fear and panic.

While many pray for #London or #Paris, rarely #Lebanon or #Syria or #Turkey oddly, the global elite are praying that we do not uncover their agenda.

Perhaps, we could choose to exercise more curiosity as to who really perpetrates these acts of ‘terror’ and their global agendas.

After all, nothing is black or white and truth is just a perspective and an opinion depending on where you are looking from.

Terror is in the mind of people who choose to allow themselves to be terrorised.

As everything in our lives, it’s an option we can all choose to make or not.

However, violence, ‘terror’, hatred, aggression whatever place it comes from has never solved anything for the human race.