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Test it

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Philip Dodson blog

When over-thinking kicks in, the longer you let that process run, the less likely you are to do something.

Our limbic brain will talk us out of most things, it’s especially skilled at dangling instant gratification trinkets in front of us. Boy does it know which ones work with us, after all it’s had our lifetime of experience of what weapons to use to thwart us.

The thing is, if you have an idea, unless you test that on an audience, it will always remain an idea.

As time passes the idea will turn into a regret, especially when you see someone who had the courage to test an idea similar to yours. Often in our eyes, we see it as stealing our idea and we get quite indignant.

Then we say ‘well they won’t do it as well as I would’ or we might say ‘well maybe the idea wasn’t for me anyway’.

The fear of not testing an idea prohibits us ever knowing the outcome and think of all those great things we could have created.

Testing doesn’t have to be big, all that is required is to have the courage to try. But that is a small sacrifice versus the pain of not knowing, the regret and the disappointment of seeing others doing it.

So what ideas do you have today, that you could overcome the fear of trying, and go out and test on the world? You never know the outcome and that is the excitement of life, we get to choose which ideas we test out loud or don’t.

Just test something.

The meaning of life, well my view anyway

Posted on by philipdodson

Philip Dodson blog

We often look to others for answers, or for them to do something for us, that we fear doing for ourselves.

The fact is, often instinctively, we deep down know the answers in life, as who else knows us better than us?

Why then, do we often wait a lifetime to do or try something new, or to change a thing that we know the answer too?

The reason we wait is, we are programmed to wait by our environment, very often from the moment we are born – the word ‘don’t’ gets engraved on our soul. Inside us is the limbic brain, the chimp brain, the one that is wired to avoid risk, to avoid being made to look foolish and to avoid danger.

However, now we live in a safe world relatively, yet this avoidance of danger continues. This is largely due to our environmental influences of parents, schools, bosses, governments and so on.

How do we break this?

We find out ‘why’ we do what we do, and if you can’t answer that, then you are probably doing the wrong thing.

We then learn the courage to change what we do until we find a meaningful and inspiring ‘why’.

We learn to become vulnerable and step into the ring, not worrying about what the critics say.

Finally, we realise that life is about creating.

So the meaning of life is, wait for it, drum role….make sure you tell others that you heard it here first…

To be constantly making our own new creations, whatever form that may take, and sharing them with an audience that you choose, whoever that may be. Otherwise it is a life of servitude to others for an ever more soulless reward of stuff we don’t need.

I’m off now to create and not serve.