Shelf life

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There is a shelf life to ideas in the same way as there is to milk, eggs, cheese and so on.

Ideas are there often for a moment, and then can easily be gone, or replaced by a different one.

We have so many ideas in our heads every day.

By writing down our ideas, we are taking the first step to creation.

Then if we dare to share them with the world, we have taken the second, and most important step. We have actually created something.

Private thoughts are just that, but by using whatever medium you choose to connect and share with others, you are actually creating something. Initially, if only a connection, or just placing your idea in the minds of others, but it is a start, it is no longer just a thought.

What we do with that creation is then upto us and the people that we have shared it with.

Leaving ideas in our head, risk them being lost to eternity, like so many incalculable number of ideas that the human race has had, but didn’t take from their heads to give to the world.

Like our ideas, we have a shelf life too. Don’t expire from this world leaving all your ideas as just thoughts in the private world of our heads.

What will you do you do with yours? What could you gift to the world? Or shall we all just keep following the same safe, bland path? Why do we trade our freedoms and abandon our ideas so easily?

Helping others

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A good number of people talk about helping others.

It ranks alongside ‘authentic’ – yes that new idea, where it’s now seen to be ‘honest’ and ‘genuine’ is a really good thing. So before it was good to be dishonest, now we hit on this remarkable new concept, and yes we can make money from it too. We’re now going to be transparent and not tuck everyone up!!

Helping others shouldn’t be a strategy, shouldn’t be something to do in order to further our business to get something back, especially as a planned activity to manipulate someone who has got something we want.

Instead helping others could be something we simply enjoy doing, something that gives us really good and happy feelings. It could be an action without any agenda.

There is nothing wrong in boosting our happiness by helping others.

If we all just helped others for no reason, the world would be a kinder and happier place. This is not some fluffy utopian pipe dream, it is a question of us all making our own choices as what we want the world to be like. We can only change ourselves and not others.

However, our change can be the inspiration to others. They can then freely decide to change too, for themselves.

Happiness is a choice, helping others is too, do not manipulate, inspire change.