Tag: Challenges

How To Prepare Yourself For Greater Challenges

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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Challenges are your stepping-stones to your next level. Growth comes from doing difficult things, things that others don’t want to do.

Don’t shy away from challenges. If you want to get to your next level, you must face your challenges.

Your challenges are yours to face. It is when you face your challenges that you find your real self.

It is when you have the courage to face your fears that you find your real power.

It is when you face your life that you find your inner power.

If you really want to prepare yourself for what is ahead of you, you must do the following:

You must have a positive attitude. Why is that? Because it is not what you are going through in your life that is the issue. It is how you view it. If you want happiness, focus on doing things right.

You must always prepare to give your best. Success is about giving your best. If you are willing to give your best, success is likely to happen.

You must embrace change. We love where we are, especially when we are really comfortable. If you want to grow, your comfort zone is not the right place for you.

Why? If you keep doing what you have always been doing, you will always get the same thing. Nothing is going to change in your life. You are not going to grow. You are not going to add anything to your life. And you are going to be behind. Do you want to be there?

That is not where you want to? Remember, nothing stays forever. Things are changing. If you are not changing, you are going to be left behind. Is that what you want for yourself?

To Unlock Your Day, These Eleven Quotes Are Enough

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Motivational Quotes, Personal Development, Personal Growth
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‘Change begins with individuals, and it begins with imagination. It begins with a different story which succeeds in capturing the imagination more effectively than the now-crumbling old story.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Whatever journey we imagine ourselves to be on, myth and fairy tales can inform our sense of what is possible, and enable us not just to cope with life’s challenges, but to live more intensely, and more richly, in the world.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Don’t maim yourself trying to fit into the glass slipper which was made for someone else.’- Sharon Blackie

‘There is something in us which is always seeking new frontier, which requires an enigma that can’t be easily penetrated.’- Sharon Blackie

‘In a state of awe we feel humbled. In a state of wonder we feel possible.’- Sharon Blackie

‘You can learn to belong anywhere … if you choose. It’s an act of creation, and like all acts of creation, it’s also an act of love, and an enormous leap of faith.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Above all, open the windows wide: break down the barriers, and let the inside out, and the outside in.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Always look for the small beauties beneath surface ugliness- the crows holding a colloquium in the middle of a busy, fume-filled traffic island.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Beauty is a body bowed from the weight of a life fully lived. Beauty is hair bleached in the light of a life fully loved. Beauty is the angular, bony edges of a life fully risked.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Simple living is often a more radical choice … When we slow down and live more simply, we use fewer resources- both our own and the planets.’- Sharon Blackie

‘Apprenticeship requires humility: a little-valued quality in a world hell-bent on glory. All the best fairy-tale heroines knew it to be true: sometimes it’s okay to say that you’re not quite there yet.’- Sharon Blackie