Tag: design

Do it for yourself

Posted on by philipdodson

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Often in life people say they did it for so and so, I made this for you, I wrote this for….I created it for….I designed it for x.

The best things created are when we do it for ourselves.

If we do things for others, how do we really know what others want or like?

Once we do things for others, we start to care what others think and when the response isn’t good, then we kill our self-confidence, and often then try too hard to please.

Don’t try to please others, as it opens us up to the worst of the feelings of not being good enough.

Write for yourself, sing for yourself, paint for yourself, do the things that you love the most for yourself.

That way you will create without fear of criticism, fear of judgement of others and then because it is likely then to be the best you can do, then others will find you and your art.

Success is what matters to us. It’s personal.

A blank sheet of paper

Posted on by philipdodson

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If I gave you all a blank sheet of paper and said to you ‘design the world that we live in from scratch’. What would you put down on that paper?

I would remove any restrictions, as we know that with the right mindset, anything is possible, I would encourage you to unlearn what you know already about how things have always been done. I would encourage to think about your values before commencing on your blueprint for a new world.

Now, some of you might say ‘what’s the point? you can’t change it’ and some might say ‘well I like the world the way it is’. That’s OK.

I wonder if any of you have ever done this exercise or whether you have ever paused to think about it?

I have thought about it a lot, I have written blogs about what I don’t like about what we have now and yet I have never put it down in writing on a blank sheet of paper a blueprint for an alternative.

They great thing is the world can be changed. However, in order to do it, you have to create a blueprint that inspires others to want to be part of it. You need to convince the ‘early adopters’, so that they can carry you ideas to others and help create a movement.

History teaches that nothing last forever and the capitalist religion is waning and it will be replaced by something. It is up to us to design what it is replaced by.

So that’s what I am going to do, take a blank sheet of paper and write down my alternative, if you want join in, let me know.