Tag: success

Gift horses

Posted on by philipdodson

Do we look gift horses in the mouth?

Well, the saying says ‘never look a gift horse in the mouth’.

Surely, we need to define the ‘gift horse’. On the surface, many things can seem appealing, especially at times when we are struggling in life. There is almost a sense of relief that something has finally come our way.

It’s perhaps better though to reflect on things, particularly removing a financial reward that the gift horse maybe offering, and go with perhaps our instinctive feelings and ask does it sit well with my values?

After all, not every gift is a blessing, look what happened at Troy.

There is always another horse that comes along in life.

That thing you were going to do

Posted on by philipdodson

We all have things that we were going to do last week, the week before, the week before that and so on.

There are some things that stay on our list of things to do, week after week after week.

Well, I’m guessing we are all still here, nothing bad has happened from not doing it? So cross it off the list…it doesn’t matter.

It is better to have a list of one or two things that we will actually do each day than a list of 20 things we’ll never likely to do.

Just do what really, really matters. Even if we had the inclination and time to do all the things on our list, 80% of them are a waste of our precious lives anyway. If we get the important things done, then head to the park, listen to some music, spend time with the kids, go for a run, whatever, just don’t do shit that doesn’t matter.