Tag: life

What you have

Posted on by philipdodson

When was the last time you actually took the time to consider what you have at this moment in your life?

We spend most of our lives wishing to be in another moment and often with more stuff, more money, more success, more, more, more.

We are born with all that we need and we’ll die with all that we need, no amount of ‘more stuff’ will alter that.

What we all have now, as in right now, is life. Appreciate that and let all the rest go and enjoy peace, not happiness or misery, but the true joy that peace brings no matter how much you have or don’t.

Rituals

Posted on by philipdodson

Whatever you create, could be a painting, could be sailing, writing, singing, making something, working with numbers, words, speech, building, engineering, heart surgery and so on, essentially the difference between it being just job and creating your best possible art is your practices and commitment.

If we have a ritual, a daily routine, so that we are step-by-step slowly but surely mastering whatever we do, then it will become an art form, a work of love, a thing that others will seek.

Routines and rituals take the amazingly huge and daunting dreams down to small repetitive and hardly noticeable steps of dedication that if repeated will bring the amazing.

‘Doesn’t matter what they are, just have them’ as Seth Godin said when asked what his rituals were.

The final ingredient is the patience and dedication to commit to those rituals day after day for a lifetime of mastering the things that matter to us. That takes staying focused in this moment and concentrating deeply on the one thing and one thing only, deep work is needed.