Tag: short-term

It always comes good

Posted on by philipdodson

Life is full of challenges, and frankly, without them, we would not learn, we would have little motivation or inspiration and it would be dull.

Challenges are what keeps us going.

It is how we choose to react to the challenges of life that define the outcome and how our journey gets better not stuck.

If we have a positive approach to challenges and if we have faith in the fact, that if we have this mindset, things always come good.

If we are prepared to see each challenge as an opportunity to grow, to learn, to become a better version of ourselves, then we will have the inspiration and the right strategy to overcome that challenge, and from that process we build resilience.

That increased resilience is built by the right mindset and it allows us to become stronger and stronger at overcoming setbacks, it helps us evolve.

The last thing to add to the commitment to succeed is patience.

Being patient enables us to respond with the right strategy and that then brings about the right solution and always coming good happens because of it.

When we are patient, we are calm and being calm is exactly what we need in challenging times.

When you have faith that it will be alright, you can relax and take the longer term approach, no need for short-term fixes and knee-jerk reactions.

Life always comes good with the right attitude.

The self-discipline trap

Posted on by philipdodson

We can shortcut self-discipline by blocking sites, putting a lock on the fridge, not having chocolate cakes in the house, not buying cigarettes to stop smoking and removing from our lives things we can not seem to stop taking, having, doing and so on.

But it is just that. It’s a trap. We believe that we have overcome a habit or dealt with a demon. We haven’t really overcome something, we have simply ‘handcuffed’ ourselves, blocked it out, but deep down the behaviour is still there.

The hard part is to stop eating cake when the cake is sat right in front of us.

To do that we have to understand why we keep doing something and then to change our habits.

Blocks, locks, and denial are a short-term fix, building a habit without the block based on a desire to want to change, is the only long-term solution.

We will only apply the real self-discipline needed to build the habit that creates lasting change once we are inspired to do so.

Seek the demon, explore why we behave that way, build strategies and then apply new habits to change that behaviour.

It’s easier said than done, but if we want lasting change, there is has to be a trade between easy fixes and commitment.