Tag: patience

Practice again and again

Posted on by philipdodson

If we keep practising and practising, one blog after another, one golf swing after another, one anything again and again. We get bolder, braver, more fearless.

Or we give up.

The best doesn’t come after just 10 tries, 20 tries, 100 tries, it might take a 1,000 or 10,000

We’ll get slowly and surely even better each time.

Practice alone isn’t enough, it is patience and practice that over time helps us reach the next level of even better. The thing is what else are you going to do with your time?

Better to keep practising than never getting better.

The fire of gratification

Posted on by philipdodson

The fire of gratification once lit is always hungry for more things to burn.

It’s a fire of addictions, not just drugs, alcohol, food, downloads, social media, but many more. There are many addictions in our world, all giving that instant hit of gratification. It is a short-term burn, a short-lived buzz, shallow and unfulfilling.

We will look back on our current times and reflect that the progress we thought ‘instant everything’ was, was not in fact progress, it was a regression. Having everything just a click away has removed the joy that slowly building something of meaning brings to us.

Deep versus shallow.

We need a to put out the fire of gratification and search for a slower burn, one that brings joy longer term.