Welcome to my dangerous world
"In this reality, choosing to accept our weirdness, invent our own future and live a purpose-driven life becomes a dangerous idea. It's dangerous because it lets the creative beast out of its cage and allows us to see what we are capable of without seeking permission or approval. Dangerous because it opens up the possibility that the life you're living may not actually be yours, but a template assigned to you by scared and unimaginative people." James Victore from Feck Perfuction
What is it all about?
Managing the hell out of life
nikdavis.com is based on three core building blocks: truth, kindness and courage. It is about being authentic, being whole and re-defining what makes us all a true success.
In a world of 'optical illusions', proactively encouraged by social media, this is a 'push back' to get behind the illusion and share how life really is.
Let's celebrate our vulnerability and 'wholeness', share our failures without shame or guilt and value ourselves for who we are - warts and all.
Welcome to the real world.
The 'Third Way'
I have a basic philosophy that guides how I live my life. It is another way, a less populous way, it is my 'Third Way' and that philosophy consists of 3 key building blocks:
1. Being brave - my foundation, to feel the fear and do it anyway. Fear will never dissipate, it will never disappear, it never leave my side but courage can grow as we quieten the noise, the distractions, the judgement, the shame and allow our inner knowing, our moral compass, our essence to lead the way and it is when that courage grows larger than fear that action is possible, change is possible and growth is infinite.
2. Challenge the ‘norm’ - as Einstein said insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results", we are human, we are flawed, we are but fools if we think we know it all, so to challenge, to think, to see the world from all of it's sides as uncomfortable and heart breaking as that may sometimes be, and then to do better because we know better, is the best outcome any of us can achieve in our life time
3. Telling it 'how it is’ - a deeply rooted, unshakeable belief in truth, no matter how raw, vulnerable, inconvenient, unpopular or isolating. “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.” William Faulkner
Core Objectives
1. Having a family and career, they are not mutually incompatible but I have purposely put family first otherwise what is it all for?
2. Earning money and being socially responsible. 'But for the grace of god go I.' Never miss an opportunity to help someone less fortunate than you. What is the point of money if it makes us forget our humanity?
3. Being logical and empathetic. Using your cognitive brain function to solve a problem does not absolve us nor solve a problem without caring about how others feel - without compassion, empathy and humanity what sets us apart from a robot? And is that really the soulless world any of us can live in?
4. Respecting rules but challenging them when required. 'All it takes for evil to prosper is for a few good men to do nothing’, need I say more?
5. Inspiring others to feel good about themselves but not to feed our own egos. Helping others to simply help others is the very essence of being human. Ego can be a dangerous, judgemental and mean spirited friend, best to bin it.
6. Give rather than take. It does not matter if this is a 'one way' street. What matters is your humanity and kindness. At the end of the day it’s our conscience we answer to not anyone else's.