Tag: Achievement

Standing Up To Your Obstacles

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Personal Development, Personal Growth
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Nothing can stop you from achieving your dreams, ONLY YOU. You are the only one who can stop yourself from reaching your potential. You must stop doubting yourself. You must stop telling yourself negative things that are blocking your progress.

The road to success is not a straight one. You are going to run into lots of problems. It is how you handle your problems that will make all the difference. I will never stop saying this: WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO IN YOUR LIFE, GO FOR IT. Don’t stop yourself from achieving your goals. You can. You have what it takes to do well in life. You can change your life, you can face your fears, you can face your obstacles by changing how you see yourself, how you think about yourself, and what you believe about yourself.

“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.”

Norman Vincent Peale

Face your fears. Face your obstacles, the obstacles in your mind. If you can conquer the fears in your mind, there is nothing you cannot achieve in life. The things you fear cannot resist your power if you are ready to face it. Don’t fill your mind with doubtful thoughts, fill it with positive thoughts. And until you face your obstacles, you will never move forward.

To conquer your fear is to conquer yourself. If you cannot conquer yourself, you can’t conquer your fear. But if you can conquer yourself, you can conquer your fear.

The road to success is through the gate of fear. You must go through it to reach your destination. Are you ready to face it?

Never Give Up On Your Dreams. When You Are Ready, The Door Will Open

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Personal Development, Personal Growth
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As Earl Nightingale once said, “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

It is never too late to pursue your dreams. Your dreams will die if you don’t act. To keep your dreams alive, you must take actions to make them happen. You can make them happen. They are within your reach. They are not impossible.

Don’t kill your own dream by imposing limits on your thoughts. Remember, what you think you can do, you can. What you think you can’t do, you can’t. Do not limit yourself.

If you have the courage to pursue your dreams today, your tomorrow will be better than your today. But if you fail to pursue your dreams today, your tomorrow will be worse than your today.

In order to have a better tomorrow, you must do something today. You must change something today. You must change your thoughts. You must be honest with yourself. You must face your own reality, the reality you created for yourself. You must question your reality. Your tomorrow depends on what you are doing right now.

What you plant today will determine what you will reap tomorrow. If you plant positive seeds, you will reap positive fruits. If you plant negative seeds, you will reap negative fruits. Do not kill your dream. Give your dream a chance to survive. Give your dream a chance to grow. Water your dreams. They will water you.

People always say, “I am too old to do this or too old to do that.” Your biological age is not what is stopping you to do something to change your life; it is your thought that is holding you back.

If you change your thinking, your life will change. James Allen said, “A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can remain weak, and object, and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts”

Well said. If you want to achieve small things, you do not need to work very hard. You don’t need to work hard to be an average person. Do you want to be an average person or a great person? You decide.

If you want to achieve much in life, you must do much to get it done. Success comes with a big price. Are you ready to pay the price? Are you ready to work hard? Are you ready to work smart? Are you ready to be uncomfortable?

If you want to achieve big things in your life, you must be ready to work very hard and smart. Sometimes hard work is not enough. You must work smart.

You must be willing and ready to do what others are ignoring. You must be willing and ready to be vulnerable. You must be willing and ready to get out of your bubble. You must be willing and ready to be criticized. When you are ready, the world is ready to help you succeed. When you are ready, the door will open.

There is nothing you cannot achieve in life if you are ready, willing, and committed to making it happen. You can do anything if you want to succeed.

I will sum this article up with a quote from George Whitefield. He said, “Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.”