Month: December 2021

If You Are Not Living Your Life, You Are Living Other People’s Lives

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
Photo by Helena Lopes

Life is for you to live. Life is for you. Life is for you to live now! Stop hiding your true self. Stop living other people’s lives. If you have been doing it, stop it! God didn’t bring you here to live other people’s lives. God brought you here to live your REAL life. If you are not living it, it is never too late to change it. God wants you to be happy. God wants you to live your life. God wants you to enjoy your life. Permit me to ask you this question: Why are you against yourself?

If you want to be happy, you must live your own life. You must develop the courage to live your own life. You must stop doing what you think the world wants you to do. Do not do what the world wants you to do. Do not go where the world wants you to go. It is your life. The world should forget about you. You are not here to imitate anyone, but to live your life.

“Self-realization is not an event. It is a lifelong thing.”

It takes courage to do great things. So if you want to live your own life, you have got to double your courage. You have got to work really hard to defend yourself. Because the world is working to change you. Do not let that happen to you. The best gift you can give yourself is the gift of self-realization. According to Sri Ramana Maharshi, “Our own self-realization is the greatest service we can render the world.” You were born to realize who you really are, not to play around. You were born to enjoy the gift of life. You were born to bless your life. You were born to grow, to live, to love, not to waste your time. Remember, self-realization is not a one day thing; it is a lifelong thing. If you want it, go for it.

Why You Should Let Toxic People Go

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
Photo by PNW Production

Who are the people in your life? What are they doing to help you achieve your goals? Are they helping or hurting you? Are they supporting your dreams?

To grow, you need food. To be successful in your life, you need great people around you. If the people around you are not helping you get closer to your goal, if they are not supporting you, if they are poisoning your mind, if they do not believe in you, if you are not comfortable with them, let them go.

Because you cannot grow when you are surrounded by negative, toxic people. No matter how good you are, you need great people to lift you up when you are down. It does not matter who they are. If they are not helping you get better, let them go.

Do not hang out with the wrong people. And do not do the wrong things just because you want to be with these people. It is better to be alone than to be with people who don’t deserve you. If you are always with toxic people, people who don’t know what they are doing, who are running around in circles, you will never grow.

Yes, you cannot do everything alone. You need people to help you get what you want, but you don’t need toxic people. They do not have anything valuable to add to your life. If you are not adding something to your life, you are subtracting something from your life. In this case, when you are not learning from great people, you are wasting your time with talkers.

No matter where you are, no matter where you are working, no matter what you are doing, always find ways to learn from other people. Because they have what you don’t have. They know what you don’t know. They have done what you have not done. If you want to grow, you should never stop learning from other people. And you should never allow people who don’t deserve you to control your life. It is better to be alone than to be with the wrong people. Who are you hanging out with?