Tag: choices

It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to

Posted on by philipdodson

“It’s my party and I’ll cry if want to”…as the song goes, but what about us and our own lives?

The thing is our journey and how we see it is ours and ours alone to own, it isn’t up for others to decide if it is right or wrong. How we see our situation is all that matters. It is our story, now that doesn’t mean that we can not change it, but it is not for others to decide or re-write. It is our own party and we can cry if we want to.

How we feel is how we feel, and again not open for others to debate or want to alter that.

It’s our life and it is important to take complete ownership of it all and not allow others to shape it to what they believe it should be.

Being ourselves, as in our true authentic selves, requires us to be vulnerable, to brave enough to step up onto the stage and be in the spotlight of other people’s views, opinions, and often judgement.

Step away from the package

Posted on by philipdodson

I feel like I’m at a family wedding, that until the alcohol flows, everyone sits on either side of the dancefloor looking at each other and only kids, who have no fear of ridicule, take to the dancefloor.

I can sense the sabotage of my mind playing with me, finding excuses as to why today isn’t the day to change things up with my blog.

So I am still lost in thought, and that never ends up with anything productive, on where to go, preferring to go back to the same style and content rather than take the plunge.

It’s funny in many things in life now I have learnt to take the plunge and just start without thought, knowing that a small step is all that is needed to move forward. No surprise my life is moving where I want it to go. However, as the blog is going out into the public domain, the fear is greater.

Just stop the thinking and just do it. It is the only answer, but strangely knowing it does not make it any easier to do. I think that when I surrender and stop the resistance to changing and let go, then the natural flow of creativity will come to me, the universe always brings the answer.

I need to write from the soul and step away from the package.