Tag: future

Today’s blog is a ramble

Posted on by philipdodson

I’ve been doing this blog now, every single day for over 5 years and occasionally I sit here and say to myself ‘what now?’

I am at that point today…I love coming here and writing this and, to be honest, for many years now I write this for myself. I stopped looking at the stats every day, I stopped caring if people like it or read it, well not completely, but pretty much. If others enjoy it, then great, but I really love doing, well there are some days when the love isn’t there and I’m stuck in my mind, and that’s enough for me. A simple piece of joy every day.

I will continue to do this as I am really talking to myself…it’s often a self pep talk. It helps keep me focused and in the moment.

I am often rubbish though at ‘eating my own dog food’, like most of us, I’m great at advising others as to what they could do and then struggle with doing it myself.

For the last year or more the writing, like myself, has taken a more spiritual path and a conscious tone and I find that with that you end up being repetitive, as the answer to almost anything in life always brings us back to the answer that being conscious right now and in the moment is the solution. Now is it!!!

So how many different ways are there to say that same thing? Well, I’ve probably written a couple of hundred but many are the same.

A bit of a ramble today and that’s it…I’ll be back for another post tomorrow.

Open the show

Posted on by philipdodson

We often get convinced by our mind to view life as like a series of rehearsals before we actually get round to life. Like a practice run, nearly always in the mind, setting out all the outcomes of doing something, instead of actually doing it.

We put things off, because of fear, and wait for the right time! Of course, the only right time is now as no other time exists beyond our minds.

Amazingly, we can only ever do things now, in this moment…that is the only time life is actually real, the rest is imaginary or memories of the past.

Yet we are always planning to be doing things other than doing them now. We schedule them into plans, endless plans and re-written plans. All of it to avoid actually doing.

We are here just once, why wait? Why rehearse these things in our minds? Why be worried about the fear of doing? Whatever happens, we can always deal with it.

We never know beyond now, so we just don’t know what might happen so there is no point in fearing it or speculating about it…it will be what it will be. Changing the focus to the doing now stops the thinking and worrying about the outcome.

Stop rehearsing and open the show…the world is waiting for you.