Tag: New World Project

Listening

Posted on by philipdodson

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How often do we genuinely stop, and then without thinking what we are going to say next, give 100% of our focus to the person who is speaking?

Then, how often do we pause for a moment, to digest what they have said, before replying?

Do we only hear what we think they are going to say? Simply because of the label society has put on that person. Or because we are familiar with that person and think we know everything about them.

Listening is hard, as it requires an open mind. It requires a moment of switching ourselves ‘off’.

Having an open mind, in a world that prepares us to comply with the accepted wisdom/voice of the industrialised and homogenised, has become hard.

If we all listened to what people really say, not what we are conditioned to think they say, then the world would be a different place.

If we all paused, removed the judgement and thought a bit more about what they had actually said, then the world would be a better place.

Cut your own path

Posted on by philipdodson

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So I have always wanted to do mentoring, so now I have been.

I wanted to run workshops, I am doing it.

I wanted to write, I have been doing it.

I wanted to be happy, I have been choosing to be.

Why did I wait so long, to do some of these things?

Because that was my journey, the one I was destined to take, as we only make choices based on our experiences up to that point in time. I had to learn the experiences that I have to get me to here. I had to learn to make the right choices to become the person I am now. I had to have enough time to listen to my inner self, me.

So we all have to learn. Take your path and go with the flow, go along with your journey, do what you feel is right and do not fight it, do not swim upstream. It’s draining and goes against our inner self.

Go and find your path.

If it doesn’t come, don’t keep trying to follow someone else’s path, fighting against the tide, decide to choose yourself and cut your own path, listen to yourself.