Month: January 2024

How To Earn The Trust Of Others

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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‘We must do the thing we must before the thing we may. We are unfit for any trust till we can and obey.’- George MacDonald

Without trust, you are not going anywhere. Trust is everything. When it comes to dealing with the world around us, trust is everything.

When it comes to dealing with the unknown, trust is everything.

And when it comes to you, if people don’t trust you, you are going to find it really difficult to succeed alone.No one succeeds alone. Trust makes success possible.

When it comes to other people, don’t worry about them. Instead of worrying about other people, focus on living your values.

People will trust you when you are living your values. Why is that? Because you are not just an ordinary talker; you are a doer. You do what you say you are going to do. When you say you are going to do something, small or big, you actually do it.

That is how you build trust. Words don’t build trust, actions do. You can talk all you like. If you do not support your talk with actions, no one is going to trust you.

Trust is life. To have it, you have got to work really hard for it. Do not say what you are not going to do. If you can’t do something, then don’t even talk about it.

Do not promise what you can’t give. We are human beings. If you do not have something, don’t tell people you have it.

If you can’t do what you say you are going to do, let them know before it is too late.

When you can’t do it, tell them why you can’t. Do not just tell them what they want to hear. If you want them to trust you, you must tell them what they need to hear from you, not from your secretary.

People don’t deal with your secretary. They deal with you. If you want people to trust you, you must first trust yourself.

If not, you ‘are unfit for any trust.’

The Best Thing You Can Do For Yourself

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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‘The best thing you can do for your fellow, next to rousing his conscience, is- not to give him things to think about, but to wake things up that are in him; or say, to make him think for himself.’- George MacDonald

Do your own thinking. If you are not growing, it is because you are not doing your own thinking.

If you have not started doing your own thinking, if you have not started facing your own life, if you are still waiting for others to tell you what to do, how to live your life, what to do with your income, or where to take your next vacation, you are not thinking for yourself; other people are doing your thinking for you; you are not living for yourself; you are living for others.

If you are not where you want to be, maybe you are not thinking enough. Maybe you are hiding your greatness.

To get your promotion, you must do your own thinking. That is what great leaders do. They do their own thinking. They don’t wait for people to tell them how to think.

Thinking is the best thing to do for yourself. It is the gateway to your inner self. If you want to bring out the best in yourself, if you want to wake yourself up, you must do your own thinking.

Do not be scared to think. If you do not know what to think about, just think about when you were a little child. Maybe that will take you back to when you were not afraid to try different things.

Do it for you. Do not be scared of what is going to come out. Whatever comes out, you have what it takes to deal with it.

Deal with it. If you don’t deal with your secrets, they are going to deal with you. When they do, you are not going to be happy with yourself.

If you don’t think for yourself, if you do not do what you are supposed to do to get to where you want to be, life will not let you go unpunished.

If you don’t want life to deal with you, you must do your own thinking. When you do, you get bigger. And your world gets bigger.