What can we do? we’ve all got gold medals for talking

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I hear from many the words ‘well, what can we do? we can’t change it’.

There is talking, one of my specialists skills, if there was an Olympic medal for it, I would have been getting gold medals every four years.

Until very recently, I would not have been getting many medals in the ‘doing’ Olympic’s, I was yet another one of the complainers, critics, and moaners.

Then I learnt that moaning was a waste of time, as all the things I had moaned about for many years, had not change a single bit. Often they seemed to be getting worse, they weren’t it was my negative mindset. In fact 99% of what I moaned about was entirely my problem.

I then learnt to stop just criticising and I learnt that you have to start taking action.

Small steps, that are possible to easily action, simply because they are small and in themselves quiet insignificant as a one-off action.

However, I have learnt that by doing them each and everyday, OK get real not every single day, but more days than the days I don’t, has created real change of significance.

I have my daily success rituals, thanks to my coach Debbie, thanks to the inspiration of others who use this way of getting things done, of making a difference – like Richard, Bernie, and thanks to me for being wise enough to apply the lessons of a lifetime that have lead me to completely change.

I was only talking about this with Doug yesterday, who has done several of these ritual things, like his 100 days of happiness, and is currently on a 200 day streak of meditation and the positive changes that has had to his life.

So what can you change? ourselves. Then we can change anything given time by taking small steps, well.

Being naked is the new safe

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It is interesting that once you ‘let the cat out of the bag’, once you make a public statement, then you run the risk of being ridiculed and you risk losing your credibility. But that’s fine, as that is where we all need to be. It is the brave first step into the world of doing something different.

Those who choose that option have dared to be different, dared to break free from the shackles.

We need to be driven to a new area of ‘safety’, and that new ‘safe’ zone is one where there is constant risk. We need to feel naked and vulnerable. Risk is what drives us to create, to be inspirational, to stand up and be counted. It leads to us choosing ourselves, instead of constantly waiting to be picked in the lottery of life by others.

Let’s get on the ‘roulette wheel’ and risk a few spins, risky is the new safe.

In today’s totally homogenised, standardised, mechanised, industrialised, sterile, controlled and numb world, the only way to be successful is to break free of the status quo, become a heretic, think and do different, create your own art and be yourself.

It means becoming totally vulnerable, becoming naked. This will enable us to build real connection with others who share our inspiration. In the post industrialised world that we now enter, the new crafts people will be the person who dares to be different, and get naked and exposed to the world with their new ideas.

Let’s liberate ourselves from this sterile industrialised world.