Tag: Possibility

Recruitthebest Daily Digest- If You Don’t Like Your Reality

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report

Do not pretend to be who you are not. If you don’t like what is happening in your life, take a look at your reality.

Because you get what you pay attention to. ‘Living systems change to preserve themselves.’

‘The first act of life is to create a boundary, a membrane that is the cell’s identity. It defines an inside and an outside, what it it, what it is not.’

‘Life cannot be sustained when the boundary is too rigid. Nor can it generate new capacities and adapt to its environment if the boundary is too open.’

‘Without identity there is no life, no creation, no responsibilities, no continuation, no possibility for evolutionary change. Yet every change is motivated by an attempt to change, to preserve a self.’

‘Embody your faith. Don’t talk about it, walk it. People will notice and respond.’

‘Conversation is the technology. Curiosity, vulnerability, mutual respect give it power.’

‘Curiosity leads to adaptive responses.’

Source:

Margaret J. Wheatley (2023). Who Do We Choose To Be? Facing Reality. Claiming Leadership. Restoring Sanity

When You Believe It, You Become It

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development

‘Your beliefs drive your actions.’

If you don’t believe in yourself, if you do not believe in your life, if you do not believe in what you are doing, you will find it really hard to get anything done.

It is not about you. It is about what you have been telling yourself about your life. If you have been telling yourself negative things about your life, you will find it really hard to move your life forward.

If you have been saying, ‘I am not good enough. I do not have what it takes to be successful, to get what other people have, you will not have it.

But if you change what you are saying about yourself, then you can redirect your life. To do that, you have got to change how you think about yourself. You have got to change your own story.

If you change your story, your life will change. If you change how you see yourself, you will start to create a new you, a new life.

Why is that? Because your beliefs create your life. Your beliefs drive your life. They drive your actions. So if you want to create a new you, you have got to believe that it is possible.

When you believe in something, you can bring it to life. When you don’t, no matter your effort, nothing will happen.

The question is, ‘What do you believe in?’