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This Is Discipline

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development

If you do not discipline yourself, life will do it for you. If you do not know how to show up for yourself, no one will show up for you. That is discipline. That is life. Because life is about self-discipline. If you don’t discipline yourself, you won’t know when you are not doing enough for yourself.

That is what discipline does for us. It holds things together. It keeps us on track. It keeps us going. It helps get over obstacles. It forces us to do things that we wouldn’t have done.

Discipline is hard. But we need it. We need the spirit of dicipline in our lives. If we are not disciplined, we are going to be everywhere.

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are running in circles, you are not running at all. When you are not doing the right things, you are not doing anything at all. When you are not showing up for yourself, you are not showing up for yourself at all.

And life is about self-discipline. If we are not disciplined, we are going to be stuck in a rut.

So if you want to discipline yourself, you have got to be there for yourself. You have got to have the courage to do what is scary. You have got to be comfortable with the uncomfortable. You have got to have the courage to stand up for yourself, to do what you have not done before in your life.

To discipline yourself, you must always show up for yourself. You must always do what you need to do to get what you want. That is discipline.

Discipline is not about being the strongest in the room. It is not about being the smartest in the room. It is not about being the toughest in the room. Discipline is more than that.

So what is discipline? It is having the courage to show up for yourself. It is having the courage to do what you need to do.

If you want to be successful, you must have the courage to show up for yourself.

The question is, Will you show up for yourself?

Quotes About Embracing Yourself

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Spirituality

‘No matter what you have done in the past, learn to see yourself as a new creature in Christ.’- Joyce Meyer

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You are who you are, not what you do. ‘We must all beware of letting our value rest in what we do, because no matter what it is that we do, the day will probably come when we won’t do it any longer.’

‘No matter how many other people love you, if you don’t love yourself, you will still feel lonely.’

‘Being free is much more important than being right.’

‘Joy is to our lives like gasoline is to an engine. Without gasoline, the engine will not run; without joy, I don’t believe the human being runs well either.’

‘Never apologize for being the person you are. That would be like an apple tree apologizing for not being a banana tree. If you’re an apple tree, then produce apples; if you’re a banana tree, then produce bananas! It takes all kinds of fruit to make a fruit salad.’

‘Any time we try and fail, we learn something that can benefit us in the future if we won’t give up.’

‘We are never free until we have no need to impress other people.’

‘Many people will tell you that you can’t do a thing if it is something out the ordinary, but if it not ordinary, then it can be extraordinary.’

‘If God wanted us to be miserable, He would not have offered us mercy!’

‘God does not want us to feel belittled and insignificant because we sin; He wants us to face our faults, receive mercy and press on.’

‘Many of our mistakes are made while we are trying to do something right.’

‘We may be sincere, but still be sincerely wrong. We may have good intentions, and still create a mess. God sees our heart, our motives and intentions and is willing to clean up our messes while we are growing.’

‘God’s mercy sets us free to keep trying even though we often makes messes.’

‘There is no fee that you have to pay to go to God’s party. After all, it is being given in your honor, so it would be a shame if you didn’t show up.’

‘We cannot move on to where we would like to be if we refuse to face where we are!’

Source: Meyer, J. (2013). God is not Mad at You: You can Experience Real Love, Acceptance & Guilt-free Living. The Hachette Book Group

As always, You are more, not less!