Tag: change

Things fall into place

Posted on by philipdodson

Little-Green-Shoots

If you take all the regular daily steps towards your goals and if you exercise patience, then sooner or later things start to happen.

Often when we try too hard or we are impatient, our emotions and stress clouds our thinking and then we can make knee jerk decisions.

The momentum we need to see and feel success takes a time to build, initially, it is hard, it feels like your trying to push water uphill, and our resolve is tested. This is especially true when you are trying to be you or trying to do something new and different.

Change is a challenge in ourselves or our business and it takes time. Often, though, in the microwave, instant gratification world that we live in, people feel the pressure from around to try for the shortcuts. Only to realise that there are no shortcuts to change.

However, if you keep going, the tiny green shoots start to emerge and that is when you need to just keep going and not be afraid that they won’t grow.

Sooner or later things just fall into place.

What if?

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What if?

Often we say those two words after something has or hasn’t happened. ‘What if I had got up earlier?’, ‘What if I had only said….’, ‘What if we had spent more time listening to her’, ‘What if….’.

The fact is we didn’t get up earlier and we were late, we didn’t say that thing and we missed out, we didn’t listen to someone before it was too late.

We are always analysing the past and playing out scenarios in our heads to see how things could have played out differently. It is a waste of time, as it’s an outcome you can’t alter.

Rather than ‘what if…?’ we decided to say ‘what can I do to change?’.

Changing ourselves is the key to better future outcomes and a good deal less of ‘what if?’.