Tag: Distractions

You Can Create Your Own Lasting Success. Here is How To Do It

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development

What you can do for yourself is limitless. What you can do for the people in your life is more than you can think. And what you can do for the world is more than what you think.

Life will give you what you work for, not what you want. So if you want to create your own lasting success, growth, you must be willing to do the work.

Because you can do a lot if you are willing to do the work, if you are not afraid to fail, if you are willing to challenge yourself.

If you want to create your own lasting success, you must challenge yourself. You must not be comfortable. You must not be complacent. Because complacency is a dream killer. It is a temporary solution. According to Molly Fletcher, ‘Complacency is a feeling of self-satisfaction that keeps you from reaching your potential. Complacency lulls you into false sense of security, an ‘I can do it later’ mindset.’

To be comfortable is not a bad thing. But don’t make it a habit. Because it will make you even more comfortable.

You can create your own lasting success when you commit yourself to what you are doing right now, not what you will do in the future. Why is that? Because what you are doing right now is not going to change anything right now. If you do what you are doing now really well, it has the power to change the direction of your life.

When it comes to success, to growth, commitment is key. When you commit yourself to what you want in your life, you do not really care about what is going on in the world. You are not easily distracted by what other people are doing. You are really into what you are doing. You want to see it through to the end.

You can see things through to the end when you discipline yourself. Life is a failure without discipline.

Discipline is doing something that you do not feel like doing. It is facing your fears. It is saying to yourself, ‘I am going to do this thing, no matter what is going on in my life.’

Success is possible when you discipline yourself, when you are comfortable with being uncomfortable, when you are comfortable with discomfort. According to Molly Fletcher, ‘discomfort creates freedom from regrets, from looking in that rearview mirror and wondering what you could have amounted to.’

You can amount to anything if you are not scared to try things that you have not done before. if you can face yourself, if you can face your fears, you can do anything.

If you can face your fears, you can take charge of your life. If you can do what other people don’t want to do, you can achieve your dreams. If you are willing and ready to do more than others, to invest in yourself, then nothing can stop you from creating your own lasting success.

To start, you must know your purpose. The question is, ‘Do you know your purpose?’

Source:

Molly Fletcher (2024). Dynamic Drive: The Purpose-fueled Formula for Sustainable Success

The Power Of Things That Matter

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Motivational Quotes, Personal Development

Life is too short. If you are not doing what matters to you, to your future, you are wasting it.

If you don’t want to regret your life, according to Joshua Becker, ‘We choose well. We set aside lesser pursuits to seek meaning in our lives. And we do it every single day.’

We must spend our time with people who mattter, on things that matter to us, to others, and ‘on things that meet the needs of others.‘

We must define what we want to do with our lives. Because ‘when distraction becomes a lifestyle, we lose control over the life we are living.’

Do not wait for the right time to start your life. Every day is a new day. If you want to own it, you must use it. And you must use it really well. ‘If we wait to be healthy, perfect, and prepared in every way, we’ll never accomplish anything. Everything valuable that has ever been done by someone with flaws and wounds.’

If we do not want to waste our lives, then ‘let’s run toward our problems. Let’s face them. And let’s do something about them.’ Because if you don’t, you are only making it worse, not better.

Doing something is better than not doing anything. Yes, you will make mistakes. That is okay. Because you are not in the game to make things perfect. You are in the game to make things better, to make progress, not to be perfect. ‘No one is so guilty or so damaged that they can’t make something different of their future and do something that is meaningful in the world.’

You can if you will. You think you are powerless. You think you are not smart enough to change your life. No, you are enouh for your life. You can do something about your life. You are not who you think you are. You are more than that.

You can do something about where you are. you can do something about where you want to be. But ‘you can’t change the past, but you can move beyond it in hope of a better future.’

Because you are in charge of your future. No one is good enough to lead your life. But you are.

If you do not ‘create a turning point for yourself‘, you will never move past where you are. And you will never achieve your dreams.

That is not you. Do not do that to your precious life. Do not do that to your work. Your work matters. You are not doing it for yourself. You are doing it for others. ‘Love your work because your work is love.’ Because ‘your work is a way of showing love to others.’

Remember, your work is a way of loving God. So if you want God to love you back, then you must do your work really well.

As always, remember, you are more, not less!

Source:

Joshua Becker (2022). Things That Matter: Overcoming Distraction to Pursue a More Meaningful Life