Tag: success

I’m just touching base

Posted on by philipdodson

‘Let me run this by you, I’m just touching base to see if we can get together to stir up some ideas in the think wok’

There are many other common examples of this ‘corporate speak’.

Even within the startup world ‘we’re on-boarding assets onto our new crowdfunded community focused online learning platform’.

No matter how much window dressing you place, two things will happen.

First, people will translate the fluffing up into real plain words and secondly, if what you’re doing has no real substance beyond the fluff, after a while the illusion is blown.

The dressing can be great but substance with an understated exceptional delivery will always be better in whatever we do.

Staying stuck

Posted on by philipdodson

Often, we choose to stay stuck in life because it is ‘comfortable’. Even though we moan, complain and say out loud that we are ‘fed up’, ‘can’t stand it anymore’ there is a comfort in what we know.

Coming unstuck means leaving the ‘safety’ zone even if we are in discomfort there. It means leaving shore and heading off to a new safety zone, one which abstractly we want to be in, however, there is a bigger commitment needed to make that journey out of where we are, across the unknown, to a place we are not certain will be better than where we currently are.

The biggest change comes from uncertainty, from being vulnerable and brave enough to leave shore and head to the unknown. The alternative is staying stuck, easier it seems on the surface but long-term a million times harder to endure and to break, the longer we stay stuck.

Hard as the initial breakout is, the longer we stick at it the easier it gets. Of course, we may reach our destination and it may be no better, but we will have gained learning and we have built our bravery muscles to try another journey into the unknown.

Risk and uncertainty lead to new adventures and opportunities.

Staying stuck is a choice.