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Churros now, don’t wait

Posted on by philipdodson

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You can book tickets for a flight next year, a thing that doesn’t exist and that may not happen. We plan for Christmas, Easter holidays, Summer holidays, outings etc, but these are all for future events that haven’t even happened and there are no guarantees that they will.

Then we worry about them, a thing that has not happened, might not happen and a thing that we have no control over.

Then we talk about things that we did wrong in the past or didn’t do last week, last year, 20 years ago. Then we regret the outcomes of the past. A thing that has happened and again we have no way of changing, no way of controlling, it is already gone. It is after all the past.

The thing is I am sat eating churros and chocolate at Chocolateria San Gines in the centre of Madrid with my wife.

This is where life happens, now, the exact moment that is now, as we can control that, we can experience it, and as it is happening, not happened, or may not happen, it is where all the magic of life is created.

Not the past, not the future, life is now. Enjoy it, be happy, no regrets, fears, worries and don’t wait for something that may never happen.

80 days

Posted on by philipdodson

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What can you achieve in 80 days? Well you could go around the world in it.

Well today is day number 80, of 80 straight days in a row, of writing and posting a blog post each day. I am aiming to do a whole year, 365 days. So I’m about a quarter of the way through.

I am not posting this to say ‘wow, look at me’, as apart from my Mum, no one cares.

I am posting this to get you to think about what you could achieve in your life, if you stuck to doing something every single day?

One of my challenges in life has been commitment to doing something regularly, even though, I know that doing things regularly is vitally important in being successful.

I talked only yesterday about changing habits, and that is what this writing is doing for me. I love doing the writing anyway and I genuinely write this for myself. However, seeing how the number of views, visitors and likes have been growing, and now starting to really grow, has proved to me that commitment works.

Nearly 3 months in, and the start of what Darren Hardy describes as the compound effect, is starting to happen. I am now more than ever inspired to keep going.

Now the key thing is to apply this learning to other areas.