Tag: Moment

Life Isn’t About Searching For Love. Life Is About This One Thing

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Personal Development, Personal Growth, Spirituality, Success
Two Women Sitting on Ground Near Bonfire
Photo by Alexandr Podvalny

Love is about acceptance. If you don’t accept yourself. it simply means you don’t love yourself. And if you want to do great things in life, tie it to self-love. Because we cannot do anything productive with ourselves without self-love. It is the beginning of everything.

Self-love is self-acceptance. No matter what you are going through, no matter what people may have told you in the past, no matter what you are telling yourself, the best way forward is to love yourself. Learn to love yourself. Do not wait for other to love you. They are not going to do it for you. You are responsible for making yourself happy. You are responsible for giving yourself real love. So why not now?

Why not give yourself love now? Are you postponing your love? Remember that love is not something you postpone. It is something you give to yourself. It is something you practice every day. Love is not in the future. It is in the now, in the moment. If you are not loving yourself now, if you are not accepting yourself now, when are you going to have the courage, the confidence to practice self-love? When?

The answer is NOW! Because life is about giving ourselves love. It depends upon ourselves.

How The Past Shapes Your Present

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
Brown Mountains
Photo by Roberto Nickson

You cannot live in the past, but you can live your full life in the moment. You cannot create a new life in the past, but you can create a new life in the moment.

You cannot do your best in the past, but you can do your best in the moment. So stop living in the past. Stop thinking about yesterday. It is over. It is gone! It has no control over your life any more.

The only way to live your full life is to dig deeper into your inner life. And you can only do that in the moment, not in the past.

If you want to enjoy your life, you must focus on what you are doing right now. According to Paulo Coelho, “Past and future exists only in our memory. … It isn’t what you did in the past that will affect the present. It is what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”

If you want to redeem yourself, you must pay attention to what you are doing right now. Now has the power to change your future.

You do your best work when you pay attention to what you are doing now. Do not worry about the past. Do not worry about your tomorrow. Because if you take care of today, the moment, the present, tomorrow will take care of itself.