Tag: trying

We’ve had thousands of chances

Posted on by philipdodson

Most of us by the time we reach adulthood have had thousands of days of life to try things.

Yet we often sit and say I haven’t had a chance to do ‘x’ or try ‘y’ or whatever we’ve been putting off.

If we don’t start taking some of those chances then another few thousand opportunities to do something will have passed.

The unfortunate thing for all of us is we don’t know how many days we have left and they will for sure run out.

The sooner we start doing things and trying, testing, the sooner we learn, adapt and find out what works, and then what works better.

How many more chances will we waste before just trying something?

Why deny ourselves the learning we need to become a better version of ourselves?

The sun sets on all of our lives.

The most ridiculous goal

Posted on by philipdodson

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Think of the most ridiculous goal that you have been storing away in your head, maybe for a lifetime.

There will be something burning away in all of us, that we have dismissed year after year, and convinced ourselves that we can’t do it.

Perhaps, if your most ridiculous goal is to fly to the moon unaided, then perhaps it might be worth keeping that one at bay, but other than that, what have any of us got to lose by trying something?

It may seem ridiculous to us simply because of the story we have told ourselves and, to be honest, ridiculous is very subjective. We will have labeled the idea ridiculous as a way of excusing ourselves from doing something that is outside our comfort zone.

After all, the graveyard is full of people who never tried that one thing.

Be ridiculous for once.