Tag: Learner

Failure Is Not The End

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth

Success and failure are friends. You cannot separate them. If you want success, then you must embrace failure.

Why is that? Because success comes after failure. Growth happens after mistakes.

That is why you should not be afraid to fail. Yes, it is not comfortable. It is embarrassing. It makes you look stupid.

It is okay. If you want to succeed in your life, you cannot stop it from happening. You cannot stop failure from visiting you.

When it happens, to move forward, embrace what happened. Do not try to keep it from other people, especially those who can help you.

If they can help you learn from your failure, then bring them in. Do not be too big to learn from other people.

Just because you are not where you are supposed to be, that doesn’t mean you are a failure. No, you are not. You are a learner. You are on a journey, a journey that will never end.

Because failure will never stop.

Remember, failure is not about you. It is about getting better. It is about trying new things.

According to Maulana, ‘… failure is no disaster, for it only serves to make one into a more profound, thoughtful person.’ I agree. If you want to improve yourself, you must embrace failure.

To do that, when you fail, just see it as an opportunity to learn more about what you are doing, to ask more questions, to learn more about yourself, and to learn more about the world around you. And it is.

Why People Follow You

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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People follow you because they want to follow you. They like you. They like what you stand for. And they believe in you. They believe in your leadership.

They know that leadership is not about you. It is about what you stand for. They know that leadership is about where you are going.

Leadership is about people. It is about who you are. It is also about how you treat other people. Leadership is not about what you have. It is about what you do for other people.

People follow you because of what you are doing for other people. If you are not doing anything to make a difference, then you are serving yourself.

According to Tim Irwin, ‘Inspiring others to give themselves unreservedly to the mission is not a management technique. Effective leadership is far more personal.’ He is right. If people don’t believe in your mission, if they don’t trust you, they won’t follow.

If you want people to follow you, give them the following things:

Give them your trust. When you say you want to do something, make sure you do it.

Treat them as they would like to be treated. Make them special. Lift them up. Give them something to believe in.

Show them the way. Create a place where they are free to make mistakes, where they are free to learn.

Above all, make sure they know where they are going. Tell them why you are going there.

If you don’t know something, admit it. Let them know that you don’t know everything.

Whenever they need you, be there for them. If you work for them, they will work for you. Because leadership is about serving other people. The question is, are you serving your people?