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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.

Give it a go

Posted on by philipdodson

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It’s funny how we live one life in our heads often, and then a separate one outside, in the real world.

So we have lots of thoughts, and we almost live out a dual life in our heads. When it comes to actually doing that thing out loud in the real world, we hesitate, and often just carry on with that thought in our heads.

Sometimes that’s ok, as we all at times have thoughts, that on reflection weren’t the right ones, and it is good that we do not share every single thing with the world.

But conversely, some of our very best stuff just remains in our heads, never giving a public airing. That is a shame, but it is how a good deal of life goes, for a good many people.

Imagine how many people went to their graves, perhaps with some of the greatest things that human kind could have created, and they never happened.

What a different world it could have been.

What if Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who came up with the internet, hadn’t bothered, what if Ernest Rutherford, who split the atom, hadn’t split it? What if…the list could be endless, and you are potentially the next ‘what if’ person. None of us realise what we are truly capable of and we only find out by doing it, by giving it a go and that is it.

Giving it a go, otherwise all that unused potential in all of us will go to the grave and rest there for all eternity.

Go out and try something new, something different.