Tag: success

There are many gifts you can give

Posted on by philipdodson

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For birthdays, Christmas, Easter, anniversaries, weddings, divorces, whatever occasion the consumer driven industrialised world has created for us to feel the need to give gifts, there are many things we can purchase, wrap and give to another.

However, the greatest gift we can give others is our time.

Time to listen.

Time to help.

Time to support.

Time to give a hug.

Whatever gift you can give that involves you giving your time to another human being is a gift that cannot be bought on Amazon. It leaves a memory, a legacy, a shared experience that will not collect dust on a shelf or end up in a landfill full of meaningless gifts that recipient didn’t need.

Give your time to others, it’s one of the best routes to true joy and happiness in our lives.

Going through the motions

Posted on by philipdodson

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It is better to do nothing than to tick a box because you’ve read or heard somewhere that it was a good idea to do social media, or to have a blog, a newsletter, a podcast, to do whatever the expert has told you.

Getting yourself ‘investor ready’ to satisfy that desire to get funding, when you may know that you don’t want a bigger business, but some ‘guru’ told you and everyone else is doing it.

Whatever it is you are doing, if it doesn’t matter to you, don’t do it just because it’s popular or someone told you to.

Otherwise you and your audience we realise you are just going through the motions.