Tag: success

The book of life

Posted on by philipdodson

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‘The book of life’ is not available at Amazon, if it was they would have sold billions.

The fact is we are the author of our own story, don’t follow someone else’s book.

Write your own book and finish every chapter, every page, write every word.

Choose the characters you want in your story.

All too often people get to the end of their books and when there is no more time to write anymore, they realise there are missing pages that they had wished they’d included or they wrote the wrong ending.

Your life is a story, a book, make sure you write the one you want before it’s too late and you can’t write another ending.

Stop burning people with the magnifying glass

Posted on by philipdodson

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My coach Debbie taught me (well lots of other things too) a few years ago to step away from ‘the package’, to leave situations to be that are outside of my control. The fact is we can only control ourselves and what we do. We can inspire others, but not control.

Yet often we waste energy trying to control others, which has the opposite effect to the one want, as no one likes to feel controlled.

When we step away, often things that seemed unsolvable solve themselves. That’s because we have let go and others are then free to decide without attempts by us to engineer an outcome.

My new favourite thing she has taught me is to take the magnifying glass away from people. Often we have others intensely under a magnifying glass constantly analysing what they are doing, almost ‘burning’ them up.

Like stepping away from ‘the package’, it’s liberating to remove the magnifying glass and accept people and just let things be.

It’s amazing again how great that feels for you and for the person you have been analysing.

Magic happens when we stop trying too hard.

Let life be, stop ‘burning’ people.