Tag: thoughts

Influences

Posted on by philipdodson

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What things or people are influencing your life?

How often do we stop to check this?

Most poeple do not pause, certainly not very often, to ask this. Yet it is one of the most important factors in our day to day lives. Whether you are easily lead, or ‘strong’ and independent, we are all like sponges, we soak up our environment, we listen to the people around us, we watch, read etc.

It would be impossible not to be influenced by these things, so why do not pause very often, if at all to assess the impact that these daily inputs are having on our lives?

Simply, because we are not taught to, we are not encourage to. We a taught to be compliant, to listen to what we are told, to follow the rules. This is stamped on us from an early age, so by the time we are adults, we follow the crowd and we do not question.

It’s like food, what you put into your body is going to have an outcome, good, bad or indifferent.

It is exactly the same with our minds. So the people we talk to, listen to, follow or are influenced by, have a direct impact on our mindset, our happiness, or success, everything. The things we read, watch and listen to will also have a direct impact on everything.

So are the influences we have on us the right ones?

Shelf life

Posted on by philipdodson

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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?