The Power Of Where You Are Right Now

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development
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You are where you are because you don’t want to get hurt. You are not moving forward because you want to be perfect before you make your move. You want to get everything right before you start your journey.

No matter how smart you are, you will never be ready. Whatever you want to do in your life, do not wait to be perfect before you take your own leap of faith.

Take it now. Where you are today is the right place to start. What you are doing right now is the right thing to start your journey with. What you are doing right now, small or big, nice or ugly, is preparing you for what you are going to do next. In other words, whatever you are doing right now, if you want to get to the next level, you have got to take it seriously.

Take it seriously. Don’t worry about making mistakes. Your mistakes are not your weakenesses. They are your learning opportunities. They are your best teachers. If you are willing to grow, you can learn a lot from them. Don’t worry about what others are saying about your mistakes. They are your mistakes, not theirs.

Focus on what you are doing. Pursue your dreams and stop worrying about what other people are saying. That is not your problem. Because you are not alive to worry about what others are doing. You are alive to be you, to do you. And if you are not doing you, you are not going to make progress in your life.

To make progress, to grow, you have got to be you. You have got to do you. You have got to be real to yourself. You have got to put your focus, your energy, on things that are important to you. You have got to know that life is going to give you your results in the future.

If you don’t want to get disappointed, you have got to focus on your life. When you catch yourself doing things that are not part of your dreams, you must return yourself to your own track. If you find yourself doing something else, ask yourself, ‘Is this what I should be doing right now?’

How You Take Care Of Yourself Matters

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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When it comes to your own self-care, do what works for you. Because you are unique. What works for you is what works for you. Do not focus on what others are doing to care for themselves. They are doing them, not you. They are caring for themselves, not you. They are living for themselves, not for you.

If you want to care for yourself, start with how you see yourself. Because how you see yourself will determine how far you will go to do things for yourself. If you don’t see yourself as worthy of caring for, then you are not going to do anything to care for yourself.

If you don’t care for yourself, no one is going to care for you. You can do anything to care for yourself. It can be anything.

Your self-care is about you, not about others. Your self-care is about your whole self. It is about your body, mind, and soul.

To take care of yourself, to put yourself first, if you are hungry, eat. If you are tired, rest. If you are bored, do things that make you come alive. If you have so much to do, focus on what is important to you, not what is urgent. If you don’t do what you say you are going to do, create a plan for yourself. Schedule your own work time for yourself.

If you have something important to get done, don’t sweep it under your rug. Do it now! If you feel stressed out, focus on what you can manage. If something is really important to you, don’t play with it. Do it.

If you are in a place where you are not respected, leave. If you are not happy with something, say it. If you are not happy with your friends, let them know why you are not happy with them. If you have something to say, don’t walk away without saying it. Because if you don’t speak up for yourself, no one is going to speak for you.

If you have something to do, do not doubt yourself. Do not fear what is ahead of you. Instead of suffering in the dark, go after what you want for your life. If you are not getting what you deserve, you have got to fight for it. If you can’t get it, then you have got to look for a better place. Don’t try to put others before yourself. That is not self-care.

Self-care is life care. Self-care is taking care of your life. It is taking care of everything that is associated with your life. And you deserve it. Never question your self-care. You are doing it for you. Don’t let anything stand in your way. Because taking care of yourself is important to you. If you say it is important to you, it is important to you. If you say it is not, then it is not.

If you want to make a difference in the world, it starts with you. It starts with self-care. The question is, ‘What are you doing to care for yourself today?’