Tag: change

Being naked is the new safe

Posted on by philipdodson

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It is interesting that once you ‘let the cat out of the bag’, once you make a public statement, then you run the risk of being ridiculed and you risk losing your credibility. But that’s fine, as that is where we all need to be. It is the brave first step into the world of doing something different.

Those who choose that option have dared to be different, dared to break free from the shackles.

We need to be driven to a new area of ‘safety’, and that new ‘safe’ zone is one where there is constant risk. We need to feel naked and vulnerable. Risk is what drives us to create, to be inspirational, to stand up and be counted. It leads to us choosing ourselves, instead of constantly waiting to be picked in the lottery of life by others.

Let’s get on the ‘roulette wheel’ and risk a few spins, risky is the new safe.

In today’s totally homogenised, standardised, mechanised, industrialised, sterile, controlled and numb world, the only way to be successful is to break free of the status quo, become a heretic, think and do different, create your own art and be yourself.

It means becoming totally vulnerable, becoming naked. This will enable us to build real connection with others who share our inspiration. In the post industrialised world that we now enter, the new crafts people will be the person who dares to be different, and get naked and exposed to the world with their new ideas.

Let’s liberate ourselves from this sterile industrialised world.

It’s a revolution, no more jelly beans.

Posted on by philipdodson

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So earlier in the week I blogged about changing the world with soap, so continuing in that vein, I now bring fruit into the revolution.

It’s easy this changing the world stuff, a bit of environmentally friendly soap, no more plastic bottles, and now fruit.

For those who know @Work Hubs, will know it for the trademark Jelly Beans, it has been the source of many a social interaction. However, I have thought for a while about this, and as it has been so synonymous with the place, that it felt like I was about to cut my arm off (OK maybe a little dramatic).

However, the biscuit jar and the jelly beans was not sitting well with my values and what I stand for. I don’t eat hardly any refined sugar any more. I used to eat a lot of it, and consequences weren’t pretty.

So here I was not eating it, yet happily giving it to my members at the hub.

The response has been good, better than I had feared, I was envisioning a mutiny. I feel better for doing it, knowing that people can eat fruit, sugar/additive free Nakd bars, and fruit & seed mix. They will feel better for it too.

So again, you don’t change the world with a bit of fruit, soap and glass bottles. However, you can start to make your difference step-by-step.

I hope that by sharing this, it will encourage others to make small changes too.

The sugar is a big thing for me, as I have grown up in a world, where sugar has become the biggest and most damaging drug. The damage that it is doing to human kind is huge.

My New World Project is all about making change and it is just starting, I’m on step 4 of the 1,000 mile journey and all I hope is to make my difference and inspire others too.