Tag: failures

Focus On What You Can Do Right Now

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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‘Knowing your purpose focuses your life.’- Rick Warren

Yesterday is over. It is gone. You cannot change it. What about tomorrow? What about it? It is not here yet.

So stop worrying yourself about what is not even going to happen. What about now? Today? Yes, now? We are living it!

If you do not want to miss out, you must focus on what is going on right now. You must focus on the moment, your perfect moment.

If you are tired of where you are, if you are tired of doing the same thing, then stop worrying yourself about the past. Stop thinking about your past failures, your past mistakes. Focus on where you are going, not where you are coming from.

Living in the past is not going to help you get what you want. It is not going to lift you up. Instead, it will keep you where you are. Why is that?

Because what you are doing right now is shaping your future. Where you are right now is preparing you for your future. What you are doing right now is in charge of what you will become in the future.

So if you want to get a different result, you must do things differently. If you want to make a difference in your life, you must focus on where you are. Because change happens in the present. Because growth happens in the present.

Because the past is over!

Turning Rejections Around

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

‘…You are also allowed to be the rejecter and say no when something is posed as a great opportunity but just doesn’t feel right.’- Sam Jay

‘If you care enough about your work, you will be able to get past rejections.’– Alysia Reiner

‘When one door closes, another one opens.’- Alysia Reiner

‘It’s powerful to share experiences of rejection. … By sharing your vulnerability and your hardships, you give other people permission to do so as well. Then collectively, we’re able to kind of grow stronger together.’- Polly Rodriquez

‘After a rejection, you have to stop your own destructive narration, the looping story in which you tell yourself what just happened.’– Rachel Platten

‘Volunteering is one of the best possible ways to overcome a failure. because all of a sudden you’re not focused on what you don’t have. You’are focused on all that you can give.’- Rachel Platten

‘Treat your inner artist like a kindergartener in art class. Be gentle rather than critical.’- Rachel Platten

‘When you are trying to make a change, acknowledge that whatever the pushback, there is often validity in other people’s concerns.’- Marilyn Carlson Nelson

‘You know what would be bizzare? If you never failed and you never got rejected.’– Sarah Koenig

‘When you get rejected, you feel like you’re the only one to whom this has happened- but that’s not true. Failure happens to everyone.’- Angela Duckworth

‘Authenticity is all about staying true to your values, not to one particular communication style.’

Jessica Bacal (2021). The Rejection That Changed My Life: 25+ Women on Being Let Down, Turning It Around, and Burning It Up At Work