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2 years of continuous daily blogging and one big lesson.

Posted on by philipdodson

Yesterday’s blog was my 730th blog in a row. Wow, two years of continuous daily blogs.

This is what I wrote last year, after a year, on the 19 things I had learnt – click here.

The 19 things that I had learnt in the 1st year still remain true.

This year I have learnt one more BIG thing to add to the list.

By blogging every day, it enables me to talk to myself each day and share it. That is powerful.

Hitting publish makes it public and that is great for bravery and accountability and it is scary at times too. But fear is good, it is a motivator and an inspiration.

I feel the good pressure of trying to apply my own advice and trying to live by what I say and that is a hard but a very worthwhile challenge to have in life.

Do I succeed every day? Well, perhaps that is for others to answer, but I know that I don’t every day. However, it is getting even better as the days pass.

Progress is all that we can ask for in life and it is as always the tiny steps and being compassionate to yourself that matter. It is at our own pace and choice.

So in my head, I can say to myself ‘well done Philip’ and give myself a pat on the back.

Now for year 3 and thanks to all of you who take time to read my blogs.

What if?

Posted on by philipdodson

What if you could have a blank sheet of paper and write on it the ideal activity/job/work/thing you would love to do.

Regardless of your current skills, money, situation, current commitments, restrictions, and other barriers that you could currently see stopping you doing that thing.

What would you write?

And what would stop you from doing it?

The only thing that stops us is us.

We can change any circumstance that we are currently in over time, we can learn new skills, we can build anything we want, do anything we want, realise any dream.

It’s up to us, it’s a choice, a plan and taking regular action until we’ve changed to what we want.

So grab a piece of paper and write what you’d love to do if there were no restrictions, then get a plan to remove the restrictions and go.

It’s a question of time and talking ourselves into things not out of doing things.

Oh, and a question of just starting, after all, you have nothing to lose.