Tag: Care

4 Valuable Life Lessons From Tyler Perry

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
Photo by oleksandr Pidvalnyi

We cannot control everything around us, but we can control ourselves. If we can control ourselves, then we can control everything within us. Do not worry about things you cannot control. Worry about yourself, your future, what you are doing. Worry about how you are going to nurture your seeds. The seeds of happiness. The seeds of joy. The seeds of love. The seeds of life. The seeds of becoming. If you can take care of them, if you can nurture your imagination, your future will take care of itself.

To live well, you must nurture yourself. And your life will get easier, according to Tyler Perry,

When you:

“Nurture your imagination with hard work, positive energy, ease, and self- encouragement.”- Tyler Perry, Higher is Waiting

If you do not encourage yourself, if you do not support yourself, no one is going to encourage you. If you want to suceed, be your own supporter.

“Life gets easier and happier when we let people be whoever they truly are. Stop expecting them to give you what they don’t have or don’t know how to give.”- Tyler Perry, Higher is Waiting

What you cannot give yourself, do not expect it from other people.

“When you know your worth, when you know your value, your life changes and you change lives.”- Tyler Perry, Higher is Waiting

When you know who you are, you know what you are worth. As a result, you do not settle for less than you are worth.

“Make a holy commitment to your beautiful self that you will only water the seeds of love, kindness, and self-worth, and you’ll let feelings of unworthiness wither on the vine.”- Tyler Perry, Higher is Waiting

Because love is life. Love is peace.

Because kindness is connection. Kindness is life.

Because self-worth is everything. Self-worth is you. Your self-worth is your life worth.

It is your inner life. It is your power. It is your inner energy.

If you do not have it, it is never to late to grow it.

If you are committed to it, you can grow it. You can develop it.

If you are willing to face yourself, you can grow your self-worth.

How To Take Care Of Yourself

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
Photo by Maulson Inouye

“Self-care isn’t selfish.”

“Never allow people that care little about you to have a grand impact on how you feel.”- Humble The Poet

Don’t wait for anybody to make you happy. You are the only one who can really make yourself happy. So if you don’t like what is going on in your life, you are the BEST person who can change your situation.

You start by taking responsibility for your life. Look, when you treat yourself really well, when you treat yourself with love, when you treat yourself with respect, when you treat yourself with kindness, when you treat yourself with compassion, when you focus on positive things, you will feel really good about yourself. And that is the purpose of your life.

4 Important Ways To Take Care Of Your Life

“Take care of your body.”

Jim Rohn once said, “Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” Live your life. Stop limiting your life. Whatever you have, enjoy it. Focus on what you have, not what you do not have. Remember that “fear brings worry.” Whatever it is that is going on in your life, if you cannot change it, then do what Dale Carnegie said, “Accept the inevitable.” In other words, get busy with your life.

Do not postpone your happiness

According to Jim Rohn, “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” If you want to be happy with your life, with your work, you must design your happiness for the present. Why is that? Because you live in the present. You are no longer living in the past. And no one can do it for you. If you wait for somebody, somewhere to make you happy, you are going to wait forever.

Do not waste your time. It is precious. According to Humble The Poet, “You don’t know how much time you have on this planet so don’t waste those limited moments with folks that don’t deserve your company.” If you want to be happy, you must not waste your time with people who are not making you happy.

Give out love

The best way to attract something into your life is to first give it away. As the old saying goes, “You get back what you give out.” So if you want to attract more love into your life, you must first give out a lot of love. Your love is how you bring more love into your life. In the words of Mitch Albom, “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” You will attract love to you if you have the courage to give other people love. Don’t forget that love heals everything. So if you want to take care of your life, treat yourself with love.

Accept responsibility for your life

“The willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life is the source from which self-respect springs.”- Joan Didion

If you want where you are now to be different, you must learn from where you are coming from. You must take responsibility for your own life. You must develop the courage to face where you are going. Do not listen to negative people. Do not let other people’s opinions of yourself stop you from living the life you were created to live. As Dale Carnegie once said, “Let’s not imitate others. Let’s find ourselves and be ourselves.” So if you want to live your life on your own terms, you must “find yourself and be yourself.”