Tag: Choice

How To Learn To Be What You Are

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development
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Henri- Frederic Amiel once said, “Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.”

To know your real self, to achieve greatness in life, to live a happy and fulfilled life, you must learn to be what you are.

Don’t do things that are against what you stand for. Follow your path. Create your own world, and live in it.

Don’t imitate anyone. Allow them to live their lives. The more you imitate people, the more you will continue to live a miserable life.

Happiness comes from being yourself. Unhappiness comes from sticking to things that are hurting you.

Instead of imitating people, reinvent yourself. Choose a different path. Choose to do things differently, not as others want you to live your life.

It is your life. If you want to live it, learn to be what you really are, and stay away from what you are not.

True Happiness Starts With You

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Workplace Learning Report
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Leo Tolstoy famously said, “If you want to be happy, be.” Your happiness is in you. You can choose to be happy or unhappy. It is your choice. Happiness is a choice you make on a daily basis.

You cannot buy happiness. It is not for sale. If you want to be happy, do not find it in your material possessions, look for it in your mind. The happiness you are looking for is in your mind- in your thoughts.

You can make yourself happy by changing your thoughts. If you focus on negative things, for sure, you are going to be unhappy. But if you focus on happy things, on happy moments in your life, on happy moments in your work, if you pay attention to the good things that happening around you, you will be in a much more better mood.

That is, if you want to be happy, control what you focus on. If you focus on negative things, you will receive more negative things. If you focus on positive things, more positive things will come to you. Whether you believe it or not, positive feelings are better than negative feelings.

Democritus said, “Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.” Yes, happiness dwells in the soul. Because happiness is a state of mind. The good news is, “If you want to be happy, clean up your mind of negative things, and fill it with positive things. Positive things is the best medicine for the soul. Positive thoughts heal the soul. Do more of it!