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Accept Everything About Yourself

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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Self-acceptance is self-love. Self-love is the beginning of your life. It doesn’t matter what you have been through in your life. It doesn’t matter where you are now. What really matters is you. You matter. Your life matters. Your self-worth matters.

No matter what you may have been through, don’t let that define your life. Don’t let your past mistakes define you. Because you are not your mistakes. You are you. You are unique. You are smarter, better, stronger than your mistakes. Do not define your life by your mistakes, by your failures, or by your disappointments. Define your life by your successes. Define your life by what you have done right, by your victories.

Our lives are not without failures. Our lives are not without mistakes. Our lives are not without weaknesses. But you must accept them and and manage to live with them. Eric Hoffer famously said, “You must accept certain unlovely things about yourself- and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others- that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness.” He adds: “The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking, and the beginning of the final loneliness.”

Do not let the opinions of other people to control your life. Do not listen to other people’s opinions. Listen to yourself. Listen to your inner self. Listen to your body. Listen to your soul. It doesn’t matter what people are saying about you. Focus on yourself. Focus on where you are going. Where you are going matters. Your actions matter. If you really want to achieve your purpose, you must listen to yourself. Can you do it?

There Are No Limitations To What You Can Do To Change Your Direction

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Personal Development, Personal Growth, Workplace Learning Report
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Life has the best things in store for you. There are no limits to what you can do. Life has enough resources for everybody. But you are responsible for making your own dreams. Nothing is coming to you without fighting for it. You’ve got to get out there and fight for your dreams. Creativity is free. You can turn your life around if you are willing and ready to pay the price.

Stop limiting yourself. Whatever may have happened to you in the past, let it go. Forget about it. That is not where you should be right now. You are living in today, not yesterday. You can only live in the present. You can’t live in the past. You can’t live in the future. But you can live in the moment. People live in the past because it is comfortable and easier to do than to face reality. To move forward, you must stop living in the past. You must stop beating yourself up. It doesn’t worth it. You deserve more than what you are giving to yourself. You deserve love, happiness, peace of mind, and a balanced life.

Don’t limit yourself by your past mistakes, disappointments, and failures. It is okay to make mistakes. If you are not making enough mistakes, you are just dragging through life. You are not growing. You are not doing new thing. If you are not doing new things, you are not adding value to your life. The only good thing you can do with your mistakes is to learn from them. Think positively about them. But do not dwell on them. Get away from “I wish I could have done something differently” statement. It won’t help you. It will hurt you.

You have done a lot of good things in your life. Those are the things you should be thinking about. Because the more you think about good things, the more good things you will attract into your life. The same is true for negative things. The more you occupy your mind with negative things, the more negative things you will attract into your life. It is not good to focus on what you have done wrong in the past. It is not good to focus on what has not been working well for you. Instead of doing that, you can focus your energy and time on what has been going well for you. You can do more for yourself. All you need to do is to retrain your mind. Because you can’t use a negative mind to change yourself. But you can use a positive mind to change yourself.

The more you think positively about yourself, the closer you are to where you want to be. Don’t limit yourself by your own thoughts. Negative thoughts beget negative actions. Positive thoughts beget positive actions. Take charge of your life. You are in charge. According to Brian Tracy, “You are the architect of your own destiny; you are the master of your own fate; you are behind the steering wheel of your own life. There are no limitations to what you can do, have, or be. Except the limitations you place on yourself by your own thinking.” If you have the courage to drive your own car, you will get to where you want to be. But if you allow other people to drive you, you will never get to where you want to be. Don’t limit yourself. Don’t limit your own life by your thoughts. To stop that, be mindful of what you think about every day. If you can control your thoughts, you can control your life. Because you are the master of your own life.