Tag: Fearlessness

The Power Of Where You Are Right Now

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development
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You are where you are because you don’t want to get hurt. You are not moving forward because you want to be perfect before you make your move. You want to get everything right before you start your journey.

No matter how smart you are, you will never be ready. Whatever you want to do in your life, do not wait to be perfect before you take your own leap of faith.

Take it now. Where you are today is the right place to start. What you are doing right now is the right thing to start your journey with. What you are doing right now, small or big, nice or ugly, is preparing you for what you are going to do next. In other words, whatever you are doing right now, if you want to get to the next level, you have got to take it seriously.

Take it seriously. Don’t worry about making mistakes. Your mistakes are not your weakenesses. They are your learning opportunities. They are your best teachers. If you are willing to grow, you can learn a lot from them. Don’t worry about what others are saying about your mistakes. They are your mistakes, not theirs.

Focus on what you are doing. Pursue your dreams and stop worrying about what other people are saying. That is not your problem. Because you are not alive to worry about what others are doing. You are alive to be you, to do you. And if you are not doing you, you are not going to make progress in your life.

To make progress, to grow, you have got to be you. You have got to do you. You have got to be real to yourself. You have got to put your focus, your energy, on things that are important to you. You have got to know that life is going to give you your results in the future.

If you don’t want to get disappointed, you have got to focus on your life. When you catch yourself doing things that are not part of your dreams, you must return yourself to your own track. If you find yourself doing something else, ask yourself, ‘Is this what I should be doing right now?’

Managing Your Strengths

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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We all have strengths and weaknesses. Success comes from strengths. Failure, on the other hand, comes from doing what we are not good at.

If you wan to succeed in your life, use your strengths, not your weaknesses, to get what you want.

To manage your strengths, according to Robert E. Kaplan and Robert B. Kaiser, ‘… is to accept them. If you literally don’t know your own strengths, you have no way to calibrate or modulate it.’

‘… to stop overplaying your strengths does not mean … to stop using it. It means using the strength more selectively.’

‘overusing one’s strength not only corrupts the strength, but it begets weakness in yet another way.’

‘Leaders who develop versatility don’t lose their range, they embrace it.’

‘Versatility requires knowing when a certain approach is appropriate and when it is not.’

‘You best chance of making change stick is to do both the outer work and the inner work of improving.’

‘… an iterative cycle of reflection and action is required to achieve lasting change: insight begets action begets insight begets action.’

‘Changing yourself is an admirable exercise in self-control. But it is wise to also employ counterweights- process or people- to aid your efforts.’

‘… to accept yourself is to look at yourself as if you are somebody else.’

‘To accept yourself is to be courageously objective about yourself, inside and out.’

Source:

Robert E. Kaplan and Robert B. Kaiser (2013). Fear Your Strengths: What You Are Best at Could Be Your Biggest Problem.