Category: Spirituality

‘One Faces The Future With One’s Past.’

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Personal Development, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Success
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We can’t understand today if we don’t have the courage to look at where we are coming from. Whether we want to know or not, we are coming from somewhere.

We have done positive and negative things in the past. We like to think about the positive things that we have done. We don’t like to think about the negative things that we have done in the past. Why is that? Positive things make us feel good, and negative things, on the other hand, make us feel bad about ourselves.

We can’t learn from our mistakes if all we do is to focus on the positive things. It is good to focus on the positive side of things, but it is dangerous to ignore our mistakes. We learn more from mistake than success. ‘We learn more from failure than success.’

But if we really want to know what we have done wrong, why they were wrong, and how to prevent them from happening again, we MUST face our failures. Without that, we can’t have the full picture of our past.

“You can’t move forward if you don’t know where you are coming from.”

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Pearl S. Buck said, “One faces the future with one’s past.” You cannot separate yourself from your past. It is a part of your life. Now, what does it mean to learn from the past?

Learning from the past will prepare you to handle tomorrow’s problems. By understanding your past, you will learn more about your mistakes, your failures, your successes, and you will learn how to prevent your past mistakes from happening again.

You can’t move forward if you don’t know where you are coming from. So to move forward, you must study your past.

“If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.”– Pearl S. Buck, writer

How To Build Your Self-Worth

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Personal Development, Personal Growth, Spirituality
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Baltasar Gracian said, “Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.”

Respect everything about yourself and people will respect you. Your self-worth is your worth. It is how you treat yourself.

To build your self-worth, do not let people put you down, no matter who they are. Don’t let that happen to you. If you do, you are telling yourself, ‘you are not good enough.’

To build your self-worth, you have to feel good about yourself. It is important. Because if you don’t feel good about yourself, you can’t really do well in life.

Another way you can build your self-worth is to stop putting yourself down. Don’t put yourself down, and do not allow people to put you down. Do not compare yourself to others. They have their lives. You have yours. So live your own life.

Tell yourself, “I’m good enough.” If you don’t celebrate yourself, no one will celebrate you. Do it always.

No matter what you are doing, try to be your best, do your best, and earn the best. Don’t strive to be perfect. Just do your best.

Hang out with people who celebrate you, not those who will put you down. Associate yourself with friends who want you to succeed in life. Don’t be around negative people- people who will question your worth. They will drag down your self-worth.

You can also raise your self-worth by following your passion. Do what you are passionate about. Don’t start anything that you cannot finish. It feels good to start something and complete it. It boosts your self-worth.

Finally, you can build your self-worth by learning how to forgive yourself. No one is perfect. If you do anything wrong, don’t beat yourself up. Forgive yourself. Love yourself. Celebrate yourself and the people around you. Focus on positive things, and positive things will come to you.

Don’t put yourself down. You are unique. Celebrate yourself. Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Move on.