Tag: Discipline

10 Tips On How To Be The Best You Can be

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development

Life is not going to do for you what you can do for yourself. Life will help you when you help yourself.

God will help you when you help yourself. No one is going to do for you what you are capable of doing for yourself.

You can create your own perfect life. To get there, you must first believe that you can have it, that it is possible.

According to Denis Waitley, ‘The greatest risk in life is doing nothing.’ If you do nothing, then do not expect anything. And your train will never leave the station.

‘Success is the process of learning, sharing, and growing.’ What does success mean to you? What does it really mean to you? Whatever it means in your world, just know that success is not about you. It is about how you live your life.

‘The two greatest fear busters are knowledge and action.’ Knowledge is not enough to create success. But when you use your knowledge to drive your actions, nothing can stop you from achieving your success. So if you want to see results, you must get to work.

‘To build the habit of success, we better know how to handle failure.’ Failure is a way forward. When you fail, learn from it.

‘Self-discipline means doing within while you do without.‘ When you do what others don’t want to do, even when you do not like to do it, that is self-discipline. To be successful, you must discipline yourself.

‘Stop stewing and start doing.’ It doesn’t matter what you want. If you do not take action to make it happen, you are not going anywhere. Because nothing happens without action.

‘See yourself making your goal happen.’ When you see it, you can go after it. If you want to bring your dreams to life, see them before you meet them.

‘If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.’ What you stand for says a lot about you. If you believe in justice, then stand up for it. Do not be scared to fight for people who cannot do it for themselves. When you fight for one, you fight for all.

‘It’s not what you are that holds you back, it’s what you think you’re not.’ We do it. We are good at paying attention to what we don’t have. We are not interested in what we are good at.

Guess what? We are capable of more than we are actually doing right now. Look, if we are to move forward, we must start focusing on what we have, on what is going for us. If not, we will always feel empty.

Whatever it is that you want, if you want to get it, you have got to leave your station.

This Is Discipline

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development

If you do not discipline yourself, life will do it for you. If you do not know how to show up for yourself, no one will show up for you. That is discipline. That is life. Because life is about self-discipline. If you don’t discipline yourself, you won’t know when you are not doing enough for yourself.

That is what discipline does for us. It holds things together. It keeps us on track. It keeps us going. It helps get over obstacles. It forces us to do things that we wouldn’t have done.

Discipline is hard. But we need it. We need the spirit of dicipline in our lives. If we are not disciplined, we are going to be everywhere.

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere. When you are running in circles, you are not running at all. When you are not doing the right things, you are not doing anything at all. When you are not showing up for yourself, you are not showing up for yourself at all.

And life is about self-discipline. If we are not disciplined, we are going to be stuck in a rut.

So if you want to discipline yourself, you have got to be there for yourself. You have got to have the courage to do what is scary. You have got to be comfortable with the uncomfortable. You have got to have the courage to stand up for yourself, to do what you have not done before in your life.

To discipline yourself, you must always show up for yourself. You must always do what you need to do to get what you want. That is discipline.

Discipline is not about being the strongest in the room. It is not about being the smartest in the room. It is not about being the toughest in the room. Discipline is more than that.

So what is discipline? It is having the courage to show up for yourself. It is having the courage to do what you need to do.

If you want to be successful, you must have the courage to show up for yourself.

The question is, Will you show up for yourself?