Month: June 2024

Why You Should ‘Walk Through’ Your Doubts

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth

If you want to get to the other side, you must develop the courage to ‘walk through’ your doubts.

In the words of Tom Oliver, ‘If you have self-doubts, you can’t deny them; that won’t work. It will only impede your energy. Instead, objectify them. This will enable you to live through the unpleasant feelings without denying them or giving them more room than they deserve.’

You can handle your doubts. They are there. To set yourself free, don’t try to pretend that they are not there. If you do that, they will never leave you alone.

Self-doubts are there. And they always will be there. If you want to chase your dreams, don’t dismiss them. Because they are not going anywhere.

‘Remind yourself that some of life’s greatest breakthroughs happen precisely after the moments of deepest doubt, despair, or depression- you have to walk through the valley of the shadow of doubt to get to the other side.’

It is okay to doubt yourself, especially when you are in a place that is new to you. But do not let it stop you from living your dreams.

Instead of giving up on yourself, why not ‘walk through’ your self-doubts?

You Can Turn Failure Around. Here Is How

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth

‘Many of our failures sweep us to greater heights of success, than we ever hoped for in our wildest dreams. Life is a successive unfolding of success from failure.’– William George Jordan, The Secrets of Success

To win in life, you must embrace failure. To succeed, to get better at what you are doing, you must make failure your best friend.

You see what is already within you. You don’t see what you do not want to see. If you want to turn failure around, if you want to get better, according to Tom Oliver, ‘Your viewpoint changes everything. Most apparent tragedies are actually blessings in disguise, gift packages that you have to unwrap.’

When you fail at something, it means you are really working hard to know more, to challenge yourself, to get better. But if you are not failing, if you are not falling, it means you are not doing enough to change your life.

Don’t see failure as a crime. It is not. It is a blessing in disguise. If you can focus on learning from your failure, nothing can stop you from achieving your dreams.

‘Every seeming tragedy or failure will contain in it the seeds of a great victory and success.’ When you fail at something, don’t blame yourself. Believe in yourself. Believe that you can do it again. And go to work.

‘If you focus obsessively on opportunities, you can turn any seeming failure around.’ If you want success in your life, focus matters. Failure is not a crime. Not learning from failure is.