Tag: Habits

Talk to yourself differently

Posted on by philipdodson

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We all have this inner voice and it talks to us.

It isn’t another person in our head, it is a voice we control.

If you were asked to inspire someone else to do something great, how would you talk to them?

When was the last time the voice inside your head said ‘well done, you did a great job of that’ or ‘I’m really proud of you’ or ‘you are so good at that, wow!’ or anything similar?

Do you congratulate yourself every day for the great things you do?

Equally, we can choose to talk differently to ourselves about others and choose a generous position versus a judgemental one. After all, everyone is trying to do their best.

The voice in our head can talk differently, we just need to teach it to do so.

It’s just a habit and a choice.

Magpies

Posted on by philipdodson

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There are things in life that we do, yet do we stop to actually think is there any value to it. Do we ask ourselves ‘what was the point of that?’.

Day-in, day-out our time is consumed with ‘doing’, we are busy.

That Facebook survey to tell us ‘who our best friend forever is’ or some repetitive work task that’s done because ‘that’s how we do things here’.

How much of our lives are we sucked into things, especially in a digital world, where we end up spending time on an activity that adds no value at all. It also creates a habit of being distracted by the next thing that comes along, so when we need to focus, we’ve lost the skill to.

Just because it’s there and we can do something does not mean that we should be doing it.

Our lives are precious, guard your time for deeper and meaningful things that make a difference. Don’t do ‘that’ and become a ‘magpie’ taken by the next shiny thing.