Tag: importance

Small stuff

Posted on by philipdodson

Why do we sweat about the small stuff and then things that really matter often get forgotten?

I am not sure I know the answer…

Perhaps, the stuff that matters is scary, requires us to be vulnerable, to come out of our comfort zones, it requires us to be brave. So, we distract ourselves with small ‘fry’ stuff.

Frustration comes through and that is often why I find myself getting annoyed with others sometimes about trivia. It is a frustration with myself caused by shying away from stuff that really matters and so I take it out on others.

The solution…again, I am not sure I know entirely, other than, let the small stuff go, get braver about the stuff that will matter to you at the end of the journey.

For me it is about less is more, but when you let the trivia go and focus on stuff that counts, then there is no more hiding place and that is scary.

What to do first?

Posted on by philipdodson

All of us struggle at some point, or even every day, to decide what to do first.

However, if we paused for a moment and stopped to ask these two things, then it would be a whole lot easier to decide.

What to do I fear the most?

What matters to me, as in really, really, matters?

It’s likely to be the thing you fear doing the most is the thing that really, really, matters most.

Fear is the barometer and something that matters the most is the inspiration to motivate us to take action.

As Mark Twain said ‘take the biggest ugliest frog first each day and eat it’ or words similar to that. The most important thing that will make a difference to our life, is the thing to do first and carry on until it’s done and if it can not be done all at once, then break into chunks, but start on that thing first every day.

Often the fear of success prohibits us doing the obvious and we busy ourselves with ‘avoidance’ tasks that make us feel like we are ‘on it’. We are not, we are putting off the things that matter simply to avoid facing our fears.

Don’t think, just start, small steps every day, but do something you fear and something that matters.

Our moments of greatness in life all start now with the first magical step into the unknown of doing things we care about.