Tag: ego

I have no time

Posted on by philipdodson

We don’t have any more or any less time than another.

We choose what we do with our time and there is always enough of it.

It’s just a question of what we do with it and that is our choice.

However, driven by our ego, we say ‘I’m so busy, I’ve got no time for “x”‘ So we can seem super important to ourselves and others.

Also, the mind tricks us to believe that we are so busy so that we put things off and thus reduce the risk to its fragile ego. It’s an excuse.

We each have this moment now, now is it, that is all we have and the only time we can actually do anything. Whatever we feel like doing we can do, now, and if we step away from the trickery of the mind then we have all the time we need to do whatever we want.

Happy blogging

Posted on by philipdodson

Staring at the blank screen used to make me anxious…that’s what I have been doing for the last 10 minutes, well I did it for a few minutes and then grabbed my crossword book and finished a crossword that had been there for a week incomplete.

However, after 1,910 continuous blogs, so 5 1/4 years of not missing a day, I no longer fear it. Of course, there is my ego…otherwise I wouldn’t have mentioned how many days I’ve written in a row!!! The ego says ‘have to keep going’. But I know that if I wait a while, then there is always something to say, even if it is just a few words or many. Often the fewer words say a great deal more. I no longer feel the pressure, and if I did miss a day, who cares. It really doesn’t matter.

I used to write a daily journal too on 750words.com but I stopped that daily ritual after 4+ year of continuous daily entries, because firstly I realised it was my ego that was keeping me going, so I could brag to others just how dedicated I was. Secondly, it became an extension of the turmoil of my mind, so actually, it was serving no purpose at all.

Now, I’m not staring at a blank screen because I’ve written this post.

Happy blogging.