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Start again

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If something does not work out how we expected, then sometimes the best thing to do is take the rubber and rub it all out and start again.

Sure, we can tweak or adjust things and modify. It depends on how broken a thing is.

Patience and persistence are essential elements in everything we do.

There has become this badge of honour wearing philosophy of failing fast and in a world where everyone is looking for shortcuts, easy, and certainty, this fits perfectly.

However, sometimes we have to be brave enough to start from scratch and accept we’ve gone down the wrong path.

The great thing about this is, there is always another path, another way, another solution.

We will never create our best things in life if we are not prepared to risk and the risk is sometimes it just doesn’t work and it can not be modified.

Take a shower, walk the dog, go to the gym, or have a nap. Then take a clean sheet of paper and start again, don’t look in the rear view mirror for what has gone before. Look forward and start again, start afresh.

The environment

Posted on by philipdodson

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I am not talking about saving trees or saving the planet, although that is a truly worthy cause, but for another post.

I am talking about the environment that we are in from the moment we are born to right here now, the moment I am writing this and the moment you are reading it.

Do you take a moment to analyse the environment you are in not just now, but day-in-day-out?

More than the physical environment, I am thinking about the emotional environment, about the people you surround yourself with.

It is the greatest impact on our lives from our first breath to our last. Of course, until a certain age, we have little choice on some of the environment as a child. That period has a huge impact on our later lives, so perhaps the thought here is what environment are we creating for our children?

Once we are an adult we then have a greater choice.

If we are with negative people, or in a draining working environment, doing a job we hate. If we allow people to shame us, allow people to make us feel bad, this has a huge impact on our lives. If we are in an environment that has no love, no kindness, no compassion, no support, no empathy, then it’s time to find a new environment and new people to be with.

The thing is life is all about choice and so is the physical and emotional environment that makes up our life.

Analyse your current emotional environment and how is it serving your life? How does it make you feel? What could you change to make it better serve your goals and dreams? What people are not serving you?

Happiness and joyfulness is a choice, but it is hard to achieve in the wrong environment with the wrong people or the wrong influences.

We need to create our own loving, kind, caring and supportive emotional environment.