Tag: Forgiveness

Give Up On Being Perfect

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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Give up on being perfect. Here is why:

‘… Nothing important, or meaningful, or beautiful, or interesting, or great, ever came out of imitations. What is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.’

If you want to become the person you were created to be, you must give up on being perfect.

‘The perfect student can never step outside the safe box of the right answer, can never take a flyer on the honorable failure that may be more compelling than the safe paper that gets an A.

What perfection requires is a kind of lockstep. Look at that word; imagine it in your mind’s eye, the focused match of the fearful, the physical opposite of the skip and the jump. Doesn’t it sound like something to avoid at all costs?’

‘Perfection is static, even boring.’

‘Pursuing perfection makes you unforgiving of the faults of others.’

Source: Anna Quindlen, Being Perfect

Why You Should Pursue Personal Growth

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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Growth takes time. If you want to grow, you must be really patient with yourself.

You need to chase growth every day. Because if you are not doing, you are wasting. If you are not growing, you are losing. And if you are not adding value to your life, you are not growing.

If you want to pursue your OWN personal growth, here are some tips:

Why is growth important?

‘Growth invites you to recognize that behind your outer Purpose lies an inner one: to use your limited time on Earth to deepen our connection with our Inner Core.’- Hitendra Wadhwa, Mentora Institute

‘Growth does not require that we sacrifice the outer pursuit of excellence. Instead, it invites us to make every outer victory linked to inner victory so that the process of becoming a great scientist … , we also end up becoming a great human being.’- Hitendra Wadhwa, Mentora Institute

‘Growth guides us to keep evolving in response to life’s ever-changing conditions.’- Hitendra Wadhwa, Mentora Institute

‘When we stumble in our quest to do well, Growth invites us to forgive ourselves and to ‘keep on keeping on.”’- Hitendra Wadhwa, Mentora Institute

‘Growth concerns itself not with the failures of our past buty with the possibilities of our future, and it encourages us to make the effort now.’- Hitendra Wadhwa, Mentora Institute

‘Growth refuses to see us only in terms of who we are today. Instead, it helps us walk away from from maladaptive traits and behaviors to sculpt ourselves, freely and consciously , into the kind of person we want to become.’- Hitendra Wadhwa, Mentora Institute