Insights + Actions = Results
Insights + Actions = Results
Please Yourself, Not Others
Live for yourself. Do for yourself. Be for yourself.
Give yourself permission to live your life. Give yourself permission to do whatever you want to do for yourself. Give yourself permission to pursue your dreams. Give yourself permission to take your own seat at the table. Give yourself permission to go to where you want to go. Don’t wait for anyone. Because no one is waiting for you. When it comes to your dreams, you are the leader. Others are just bystanders.
If you wait for people who are not interested in your dreams, in your journey, you are going to wait forever. Take charge of your life. Make yourself happy.
Don’t try to make other people happy. Because you can’t do it. You cannot make other people happy. They are responsible for their own happiness. You focus on what you are doing. Focus on what matters, not on what doesn’t matter to you.
Don’t try to be everywhere. Because you can’t. You won’t be able to do it. If you want peace, you must focus on what will bring peace to you. Don’t try to do too much. Don’t try to be there for everybody. Because it is not going to work. If you try to be there for everybody, it means you are not going to be there for yourself. You are not going to be able to take care of yourself.
Don’t do that to yourself. Your life is more than that. You are here to live, not to please people. To please other people, you must be there for you. If you are not there for you, no one is going to be there for you.
Life is too short, and if you are not living your life, then you are faking it. Don’t fake it. Live it. Don’t try to be who you are not. Don’t try to do too much just to please other people. If you do that, you are not being true to who you are.
When it comes to helping other people, the only thing you can do is to do your best. You can’t do more than your best. You can’t give what you do not have. I am not saying you should ignore people. That is not what I am saying. What I am saying is that you should never forget to put yourself first. Do for yourself first. Make yourself happy first. Live first. Then do for others. If not, you are not living for yourself; you are living for other people. You are pleasing other people, not yourself.
Watch Your Mouth!
Watch your mouth! Words are powerful. If you do not have anything good to say about people, then don’t say anything.
It is better to say nothing than to say negative words about people. Because negative words are just negative words. They are energy suckers. They kill dreams. They are life stealers. They don’t make people feel good about themselves. They make people feel that they are not good enough.
But that is not the case. The point is that people are just people. They are good enough. They just want to live their lives. So if you don’t want people to treat you like a stranger, then treat them as human beings. That is life.
People don’t care about your job. They don’t care about your car. They don’t care about where you live. But they do care about how you treat people, especially people who are still trying to get their lives together. People don’t care about what you say, but they care about how you say it, where you say it, and why you say it.
If you want to lift people up, then don’t say negative things about them. Instead, say things that will encourage them to be more, do more, and live more. Inspire them. Encourage them. Be honest with people. If you see something that you do not like, don’t judge them. Ask them.
As human beings, we want to be supported. We want to be lifted up. We want to be alive. That is what we want. Nothing more, nothing less.
Don’t hide behind anything. Just be you. Be real with yourself. And be real with others. Because being real is a word. When you are real to yourself, you are speaking to the people around you. You are saying that your life matters, that you love who you are. You are saying to others that you are not going to treat them differently. That you are going to treat them the way you treat yourself.
When you empower people with your words, you are saying to them that their lives matter to you, that you will do whatever you can to make their dreams possible. When you say positive things about people, you are saying to other people that positive things matter to you, too.
If you want to invite peace into your life, you can do that by speaking words that will bring peace to you and other people. You can it.
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