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The search for great gelato

Posted on by philipdodson

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Ever since my trip to Feuteventura a few weeks back, for the Copass Camp, I have been on the search for great gelato in London.

Every day for 10 days I was in FV, Stefano (no prizes guessing where he’s from) and I would visit the fab gelato place and enjoy wonderful, authentic Italian ice cream.

Since returning to London, I have tried to find pukka, genuine, Italian gelato, and there really is a huge difference between this and any other ice cream. It is difficult to put it into words, and if you have ever had the real stuff, then you know what I am saying.

However, today the search came to an end in Borough Market, and I found the wonderful 3BIS gelato shop. I checked with the lady behind the counter as to the authenticity, and once she spoke with an Italian accent, I knew I was in the right place. She let me try some of the Bacio (chocolate and hazelnut) and that was it, I knew I found the place.

So with a regular cone with bacio and panettone, I was a very happy man.

Until today, all the places that had talked a good talk, had not delivered the real thing.

The thing is, I have shared this story on social media, via Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, I am blogging about it, and I will tell others.

In business, deliver what you say, then the right customers will tell others, and comeback for more.

Simple isn’t it. Who needs a ‘guru’ or ‘expert’ to explain that? Give the right people what they really want.

80 days

Posted on by philipdodson

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What can you achieve in 80 days? Well you could go around the world in it.

Well today is day number 80, of 80 straight days in a row, of writing and posting a blog post each day. I am aiming to do a whole year, 365 days. So I’m about a quarter of the way through.

I am not posting this to say ‘wow, look at me’, as apart from my Mum, no one cares.

I am posting this to get you to think about what you could achieve in your life, if you stuck to doing something every single day?

One of my challenges in life has been commitment to doing something regularly, even though, I know that doing things regularly is vitally important in being successful.

I talked only yesterday about changing habits, and that is what this writing is doing for me. I love doing the writing anyway and I genuinely write this for myself. However, seeing how the number of views, visitors and likes have been growing, and now starting to really grow, has proved to me that commitment works.

Nearly 3 months in, and the start of what Darren Hardy describes as the compound effect, is starting to happen. I am now more than ever inspired to keep going.

Now the key thing is to apply this learning to other areas.