Tag: commitment

We do things when we are ready

Posted on by philipdodson

In life, we talk about the changes we’re going to make or we want to make.

Yet the change doesn’t happen.

We set goals, we make plans, we even take action. We listen to others. We buy books, sign up for courses and so on.

Yet, still it doesn’t come. We do not change.

It comes when we are truly ready, when we, and we alone, commit of our choice, free of pressure, free of others well intentioned, or not, advice and when it just is the right moment in our journey.

The more we force it, the less it will happen. The more others suggest it, the less it will happen.

Change is a personal thing and subjective. After all, who are others to judge we need to change? There is also this obsession with changing to fit in or to be perfect.

We are already worthy, we can ourselves choose to become even better when we’re ready.

1,000 blog posts

Posted on by philipdodson

I just noticed as I was about to hit ‘new post’ to write today’s blog that I have published 1,000 blog posts as of yesterday.

So what? you could say. Well, you’d be right, no one else really cares about these things and a number, no matter it’s size, on its own is not the thing that matters. Big numbers are not always better than smaller numbers.

I didn’t share that fact to say ‘look at me, I’m amazing’, OK partly I might have done! I did it to remind myself that when I started this blog site and if someone would have said to me ‘Philip, write 1,000 blogs in 3 years’ I would have laughed.

It is a reminder to me and perhaps, only perhaps, an inspiration to others, that with some small daily commitment of time you can achieve a great deal if you stick with something.

Again, it is not just the 1,000 posts, it is all that it has brought to me. I am a better writer, not just in content, but speed and accuracy. It has connected me with people, it has been a commitment that I have been able to transfer that skill to other areas, building things slowly and sustainably. It has enabled me to be better a creating other content too.

It has become a habit and once they are formed habits are hard to break good or bad.

The thing is, we can all do these things, we are no more or less special than anyone else. What we choose to practice often enough is what we create and become even better at.