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It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to

Posted on by philipdodson

“It’s my party and I’ll cry if want to”…as the song goes, but what about us and our own lives?

The thing is our journey and how we see it is ours and ours alone to own, it isn’t up for others to decide if it is right or wrong. How we see our situation is all that matters. It is our story, now that doesn’t mean that we can not change it, but it is not for others to decide or re-write. It is our own party and we can cry if we want to.

How we feel is how we feel, and again not open for others to debate or want to alter that.

It’s our life and it is important to take complete ownership of it all and not allow others to shape it to what they believe it should be.

Being ourselves, as in our true authentic selves, requires us to be vulnerable, to brave enough to step up onto the stage and be in the spotlight of other people’s views, opinions, and often judgement.

What’s outside the circle?

Posted on by philipdodson

Outside the circle, it is scary

Not everything that we do will be brilliant, we are not a machine, we are a human being and we will make some fuck ups. In fact, the more we do not care and the more we let go of fear, the more fuck ups we will make as we will be doing more.

Doing something requires a risk, stepping out of the safe middle of the circle where everyone else is and going to the edges or outside the circle entirely and into the wilderness.

This requires bravery, a willingness to say to ourselves ‘this might not work’.

However, if we want to create our dreams and do something that really matters to us and others, then we have to be prepared to go outside the circle where it is scary.