Tag: resolutions

January the 1st won’t save us

Posted on by philipdodson

Welcome 2024!!

A new start? A day to resurrect of lives and take action?

Interesting how we almost wait for the date to change in order to spur ourselves into action.

Often though, we go from not doing the things we feel we should to a state of frenzied activity only for that to fade away very quickly. The tsunami of new tasks we take on just because it is a new year exhausts us within a few weeks.

Change can only ever take place now, in this moment, so the date on the calendar is irrelevant.

Also, effective changes are only successful one small step at a time. Once we get to trying to take giant leaps, we fail, because the mind, and all its future projections brings psychological fear which paralyses us into inaction.

If allow ourselves to be present and away from the mind, then we won’t have these ups and downs in action bought about by a change of date.

January the 1st isn’t our saviour…now is.

A little step forward

Posted on by philipdodson

As we all sit here on the 1st day of a new year pondering the tsunami of things we are going to change simply because the date has changed, just pause, then take the list of things to do and throw it away.

When we set ourselves these huge lists they are too much for the mind, they present too much change and therefore it’s risky, so the mind will sabotage. Also, willpower only lasts so long, so by the mid to end of January, most have given up.

Just pick something today that you can do, a small step towards changing one thing, and focus on that for a few weeks. Then pick another and so on.

Small, manageable and ‘easy’ daily steps take us forward and build like compound interest if we take the small step every day.

The tsunami of change always fails. Take a little step now.