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My 30 day challenges, day 11 – by Philip Dodson

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So over a third of the way through my 30 day challenges and already I am doing more, losing weight, getting healthier, apart from a cold this week!!!

Today’s thoughts are about email and whether or not it will exist in 5 years time? Will I be pressing the ‘delete account’ button?

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Email has been a revolution in the transferring and sharing of information/data and has enabled people to be connected in ways that were previously impossible to do. Email has lead to many advances in technology, in fact it is probably one of the main drivers for phones evolving in to smart phones.

However, like most successes, they often have a shelf-life and become victims of their own success. Email enhanced productivity and made our working lives easier. Then it started to become an easy way of pushing things of our to-do list on to someone else’s. Then it got used to externally market your business and the age email marketing started. In my opinion, email is now more of a burden than a benefit.

Now we are bombarded endlessly on a daily basis with email form colleagues, customers, friends, people selling us stuff, in fact the list could go on. We’ve now setup filters, blocks, rules, and so on to stop email, the very thing 15-20 years ago we so desperately craved.

With the arrival of social media, I now see for the first time a world without email. I now find that I am sending less and less email. I’m deleting more and more without reading it. When I do use email, I find that it is slow, as you write your message in a more formal, long winded way, simply as it is an email versus a tweet.

Social media enables you to communicate more succinctly and instantly than email, it’s easier to block stuff you don’t want, as you choose who to receive from. You create your own network and people choose you.

You can easily share documents with others through Dropbox or Google, so the need for sending attachments via email is no longer there.

So like most things in life, things move on, I for one believe email will disappear and I am not sure I will shed a tear about the demise of it.

My 30 day challenge, day 5 – by Philip Dodson

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So it’s day 5 and all still on course, no slip ups yet. Although, I am sat in my kitchen at home at 20:40 just starting to write today’s and the temptation of the ‘vices’ are there, distracting me. So it’s head down and focus.

Today’s picture came from standing waiting for a tube and the yellow line, that you MUST NOT CROSS really stood out.

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There are restrictions in life and some of them are sensible, like here. Although, I for one would not stand right near the edge of a train platform, with or without the yellow line being painted, or someone announcing “please remain behind the yellow line as the train approaches”.

My thought for today is, that we live in a world that now, more than ever, is all about restricting, about confining and ‘prevention’. Yet no one is willing to look at the root cause or if they do, they would rather just restrict, than face the challenge.

The people who hold the power want to protect the status quo in the world and therefore stifle any real change by imposing yet more control.

The cause of most of the challenges we face globally is, the self-preserving old school system. The one that will only do whatever is needed to ensure re-election and to satisfy their sponsors, usually mega wealthy/mega large corporations.

The thing they fear more than ever and are desperate to restrict, is the Internet and the unregulated networks that have formed. Social media is now connecting like minded, disenfranchised souls, who may rise up and challenge the old school establishment. Uh oh quick, shut that down and fill children’s and parents’ heads with nonsense about the ‘dangers’ of the ‘wicked’ online world.

Well, we need a massive global revolution to get rid of the greed, the materialism, in fact all the ‘isms’, that have all run their courses and lead mainly to failure. We need to bring back community, where people share and collaborate to help everyone. We need to remove restrictions and encourage true creativity and innovation. We are going to need some special technological advances to cure the issues the 7 billion souls on this planet are facing.

It won’t happen by restricting, controlling, and continually creating a dependency on a system, which aims to keep us in a state of never ending consumerism, purely for the financial gain of the mega wealthy old school minority.

So I urge you all – throw off the restrictions, cross that line, not in front of the train, but stop accepting what has always been the way of doing things, as the only way of doing things. Rise up and get others to do their bit to change the system that controls us.