Tag: hard

Take a leap

Posted on by philipdodson

Chances come and go.

Opportunity is everywhere, so what if we miss one, or two or ten, they are literally everywhere every single day.

There are 7.6 billion people on this planet each one has ideas, wisdom, knowledge, opportunities.

We can seek out opportunities or not, it is a choice.

Finding opportunities isn’t the hard part, well unless you don’t look for them, but like ideas they are cheap.

Taking the leap of faith into the uncertainty, into the unknown, out of our comfort zones, that is hard, that takes bravery, it’s vulnerable, scary and goes against our conditioning.

However, at the end of our journies, there will be no rejoicing of all the opportunities we had in our lives, there will, however, be a great joy, deep joy, for all the leaps into the unknown we took and the great adventures they led too.

Take a leap now, into something unknown and be brave enough to face the fear and the magic will come.

If learning was easy I’d be smart

Posted on by philipdodson

I’ve discovered rather painfully, on more than one occasion in life, that learning for me is tough.

It requires me to understand others and me, which means listening.

It then requires a willingness to change and to realise that the choices that I’ve made and continue to make, have consequences for me and others.

It requires me to leave the right and wrong behind and to be accountable, responsible but free from reproaching me and others.

Learning is one of the hardest things I have to do.

I realised most of all that I can only do it if I want to.

If learning was easy, perhaps I’d be smart, but the struggle of learning makes all that more satisfying and lasting.

On with the struggle, the baby steps to learning pay off if I’m patient.