Tag: procrastination

Taking it for granted

Posted on by philipdodson

Seeking certainty and removing all risk has become a human obsession, so much so that we are frightened to live.

However, this is a futile pursuit as nothing is ever certain, we can not remove risk. There are a simply no guarantees.

None of us know what is around the corner in life, so let go, don’t hate, worry, judge or fear. Enjoy this moment and smile, laugh, be kind, tell someone you love them, dance, skip, do that thing you have been wanting to do but worried and put off. Live now.

Enjoy this moment right now…we have no idea how many more we have.

Be grateful for all you have and and grateful for life, an amazing gift that we can often take for granted.

Building a wall of excuses

Posted on by philipdodson

Brick by brick we build our walls of excuses as to why we can not do something. Every suggestion is met by a wall of negative reasons to not do it. The mind sabotages as it perceives a risk.

It’s better to find reasons to do rather than to avoid. But that means stepping away from our mind and its ego.

This requires us to stop projecting forward, to stop focusing on the outcome, the end result. This is all involved in looking into the future and the uncertainty creates psychological fear, a thing we can not deal with now.

If we just focus on how we can start doing something now. Focusing our energies on just the first step, getting started. We will never know how anything turns out, however, we all know how to do that simple first step…the simple steps do not allow the mind to see any risk.

After all the future is unreal, so we just don’t know what will be, so worth just starting and not worrying about anything else. A series of tiny small repetitive steps create some of the most spectacular things. There is no opportunity to build a wall of excuses as we are focused and busy with lots of straightforward easy steps and we are in the moment enjoying the doing not in the mind and looking to why it won’t work.

Find a reason to build something not to build a wall of excuses to stop doing it.