Tag: Philip Dodson

Marvel-ous new skills

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I blogged about this recently. We are told that you get to a point in life, where you are too old to learn new things. However, if you don’t try, you’ll never know.

I have committed, as part of my rituals of success that I set myself for each day and some weekly, to learn a new skill once a week.

If successful, that will be 52 new skills I will have enriched my life with over the course of a year.

Part of the fun will be coming up with new skills each week to learn, and I will aim to get bolder each week.

This week I have been learning a new drawing skill. I love art, and for much of my adult life I have not done art. It was one of those things, that fuelled with the brainwashing of our homogenised/industrialised world society, I had told myself was not important, and I should be focussing on more important things.

Since I have been doing more art again, I have not only become happier, more chilled and guess what? more creative too.

So, I have been learning how to draw people, cartoon style and comic style. I have previously found this very hard, well mainly because I had told myself it was hard and I can’t. Gradually this week I have been getting better and better.

Not quite Marvel standards, yet.

Working out loud

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Bernie working out loud on our new website
Bernie working out loud on our new website

So the term ‘working out loud’ belongs to John Stepper, I’m just borrowing the concept, rather than claiming it as my idea.

It’s an ace idea about sharing your work, well sharing it out loud.

I rarely mention my coworking business in my blogs here, however, I am on a mission at the moment to put my why back into the business and to make sure the why, how and what are in total harmony.

I blog, periscope and post stuff on Facebook, all about the need to do something about the industrialised system that we currently suffer, however, like all armchair critics, there is mainly a good deal of talk and not a lot of action. Well not anymore.

So I am currently working with Bernie, that’s my super cool mate who knows Seth Godin (apparently), and we are redesigning @Work Hubs into the New World Project, which will take the business on a journey to start creating an alternative i.e. doing something about it, instead of talking.

It’s a long journey, as two blokes can’t change the world on their own, and you have to start with small community changes first. Then momentum will take it further along the road.

We decided that we are going to work out loud and share the journey.

For two reasons, firstly, it will help 2 of the world’s biggest talkers be publicly accountable, and more likely to ‘ship’ something.

Secondly, we hope by sharing it, we will help others, when they have to face changes in their business.

Also, to inspire others that you can make changes to the world, however, big or small, that will make a difference.

So we’ve started – to read more then click here.

That’s it, back to my usual blogs here tomorrow.