Is It Really Hard To Step Away From Work You Care About?

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development

‘It’s hard to step away from work

you care about and identify with,

but rest and renewal are crucial to progress.’- Brad Stulberg

Work is life. Work is not just about earning a living. It is more than that. Work is sacred. It is spiritual.

If you love your work, you feel like yourself. You feel good about your life. You want to do more. But doing more work comes with a cost.

Loving what you are doing is one thing. Allowing what you are doing to take charge of your life is another thing.

Work is life. But do not over do it. If you are tired, take a short break. If you are feeling exhausted, take a break. When you come back, then find a better way to do it.

Do not allow yourself to be controlled by your work. If you find it hard to do something else, if you do not have time for your loved ones, if you can’t have a cup of coffee with your partner, with your friends, if you can’t have quality time with yourself, if you don’t have time for God, then your work is in charge of your life.

If that is you, you can change it. You can reposition your life for greatness. Because greatness comes from living your life, from loving yourself more than your work, from spending quality time with yourself, from actually doing what matters.

Greatness comes from knowing when to say, ‘enough is enough’. If you don’t know when to say enough is enough, then you are under the control of your work. You are not working to live a better life. You are living to work. Do not do that to yourself. Because your life is more than your work.

So if you are tired, if you find yourself not enjoying what you are doing, then take a break. If you don’t, then life will do it for you.

This Is Discipline

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development

If you do not discipline yourself, life will do it for you. If you do not know how to show up for yourself, no one will show up for you. That is discipline. That is life. Because life is about self-discipline. If you don’t discipline yourself, you won’t know when you are not doing enough for yourself.

That is what discipline does for us. It holds things together. It keeps us on track. It keeps us going. It helps get over obstacles. It forces us to do things that we wouldn’t have done.

Discipline is hard. But we need it. We need the spirit of dicipline in our lives. If we are not disciplined, we are going to be everywhere.

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are running in circles, you are not running at all. When you are not doing the right things, you are not doing anything at all. When you are not showing up for yourself, you are not showing up for yourself at all.

And life is about self-discipline. If we are not disciplined, we are going to be stuck in a rut.

So if you want to discipline yourself, you have got to be there for yourself. You have got to have the courage to do what is scary. You have got to be comfortable with the uncomfortable. You have got to have the courage to stand up for yourself, to do what you have not done before in your life.

To discipline yourself, you must always show up for yourself. You must always do what you need to do to get what you want. That is discipline.

Discipline is not about being the strongest in the room. It is not about being the smartest in the room. It is not about being the toughest in the room. Discipline is more than that.

So what is discipline? It is having the courage to show up for yourself. It is having the courage to do what you need to do.

If you want to be successful, you must have the courage to show up for yourself.

The question is, Will you show up for yourself?