Month: December 2025

What You Should Know About Self-Doubt

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development

‘Self-doubt is what happens when you know who you are, but don’t trust who you are. To trust yourself, you must live your truth.’- Katie Horwitch

Self-doubt is a dream-killer. It is not good for you. It is not good for us because, according to Katie, ‘Self-doubt makes us believe our successes depend on a very specific set of factors and bullet points lining up just like so, but success is not a list to be crossed off.’

‘Self-doubt is a sign we’re losing our footing in who we are. We begin to believe we don’t have any power, when in fact, we have all the power. We’ve just forgotten.’

‘Self-doubt without boundaries can reshape the core of who you are.’ But if you listen to your self-doubt, you can take advantage of it. Because you can set yourself free if you know how to use it to your own advantage.

If you have the gut to listen to what you are hearing from within, ‘self-doubt is change and growth knocking at your door, a feeling that’s meant to be acknowledged and felt through.’

If you really want to be your Self, ‘you must live your truth. And to live your truth means trusting it.’ The question is, ‘Do you trust your truth?’

As always, you are more, not less!

Further Reading:

Katie Horwitch (2023). Want Yourself: Shift Your Self-Talk and Unearth the Strength in Who You Were All Along

How To Reach Greater Heights

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development
Photo by Mikhail Nilov on Pexels.com

‘Who we interact with day in and day out, who we turn to when the going gets tough, and who we share our working spaces with- all of these things have a profound impact on how we feel and perform. If we are constantly working against the mindset of those who surround us, it’s only a matter of time before we, too, will get dragged down….’- Brad Stulberg & Steve Magness

Success is a team sport. It is a team work. If you are not with the right people, no matter how smart you are, how tough you are, how committed you are, someone in your team, the one who is not doing his or her work, is going to bring the team down.

If you are in an environment where you are not free to experiment, to try new things, if you really want to grow, you must go. If you stay, you are not helping yourself. Instead, you are stealing from your future.

To succeed in life, no matter where you are, you need the right people in your life. If you don’t surround yourself with the right people, people who are willing and committed to doing the work, you are not going to succeed.

According to Brad and Steve, ‘If we surround ourselves with those who support, motivate, and challenge us, we can reach greater heights than we could have alone.’ Because no one is smart enough to know everything.

But do not forget that you are responsible for your own success, for your own growth. No one is coming to save you if cannot save yourself.

It is okay to surround yourself with the smartest people in the world, but do not expect them to do everything for you. That is not maturity. Maturity is knowing when to take action. It is knowing when to ask for help.

In the words of Daniel Chidiac, ‘Don’t be scared to be dependent, but never base your total happiness on another individual. You alone are the only one who can truly fulfil yourself.’ Don’t. Do what you can for yourself. Stop waiting.

As always, you are more, not less!