Category: Personal Growth

Life is about growth. If you are not growing, then what are you doing?

“Faith Without Hard Work Is Dead”

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
Photo by Karolina Grabowska

Do not expect success to come to you. If you want to be successful, if you want to grow, you must go after it. Do not just sit and wait for things to change in your life. They won’t change. Because nothing happens without action.

And if you want to know what you can do, you must test yourself. You must put yourself to the test. Because you do not know what you can do until you test yourself.

Life is simple. By your actions, you either go forward or backward. By your actions, you either grow or die. By your thoughts, by your actions, you either expand or shrink. That is why you should always pay attention to how you live your life.

It is okay to dream. But a dream without action is a dead dream. A life without movement is a dead life. A person who is not growing is dying.

No matter what you want, if you want it to work, you must take action. You must do something about it. Tyler Perry says, “Faith without hard works is dead. You can’t sit around saying to yourself, “I want to get rich,’ or “I want my business to be successful,” or “I want my family to feel loving,” and then do nothing about it.”

If you want things to work for you, say to yourself, “I can. I will. and I Must.” Yes, you can. Yes, you will. And yes, you must.

You Don’t Need This Person In Your Life

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
Photo by Karolina Grabowska

It does not matter where you are, what you are doing, where you are going, you do not need someone who is constantly putting you down, who is never for you, who does not support your dreams, who always talk you out of your dreams, who never sees anything positive in your life.

If you want to grow yourself, you need someone who is not afraid to tell you what you need to hear, not what you want to hear.

Do not hang out with negative people, with toxic people, with people who are not going anything, who are not doing anything to improve their lives, to change their situations, to position themselves for greatness.

In his book Higher is Waiting, Tyler Perry wirites, “Is there someone in your life who is contantly putting you down, triggering your feelings of inadequacy? You don’t need this person. Ask yourself, “Why am I staying?”

Yes, why are you still in a terrible marriage? Why are you still with a terrible boss? Why are you still hanging out with lazy people? Why?

No matter what you are going through right now, if you do not stand up for yourself, people will abuse you. If you do not love yourself, people will abuse you. People will feed you with the food you don’t want to eat. They will feed your heart with the wrong words.

Do not worry about who is for you or who is against you. If you are for yourself, if you know what you want for yourself, if you do not live for others, you can make your life work for you, not against you. If no one is for you, be for yourself. That is good enough. Yes, it is.