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Quitting isn’t the answer

Posted on by philipdodson

If we are sitting here on a Sunday afternoon dreading tomorrow and a return to our work, instead of enjoying the moment, the view, the chilling and time to contemplate, then maybe it is time to make a change.

Change does not have to be quitting your job, it might be seeing our jobs and life through a new lens, one that sees what is rather than looking for what our minds want to see and believe about them.

Our reality is uniquely ours as we create it in our thought and beliefs, so how I see the world will be completely different to every single one of the other 8 billion humans.

If I dread Monday, not only do I numb myself to now, my real life, I create anxiety within me and when Monday does come, I do not enjoy it and wish I was elsewhere.

Quitting something however does not solve the problem as whatever is or was troubling us is our internal state which then manifests the external world, so unless we change the internal state, nothing will change from changing jobs, cars, houses, partners, clothes whatever else.

When we accept what is, when we become present in this moment, we can then react from a place of calm and peace, we can change how we choose to see the world and if we believe that the world is what we want to be then we can change how we see all things. That means that we can still quit our jobs if they are not nourishing our souls and if they are not what we truly want to be doing from our heart and soul.

Quitting isn’t the answer…learning our why and doing things from our heart is.

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.