Tag: Personal Development

Self-Love Is Not About This

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development
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Have you forgotten yourself? Have you abandoned yourself? If you have, you are not alone.

But you can reconnect with your life. You can be with yourself again. You can make your life matter again.

To do that, you have got to love everything about your life. Everything starts with self-love, but it doesn’t end there.

Because self-love is your foundation. It is your pillar. If you are okay with yourself, you will be okay with other people. But it doesn’t mean that everything is going to be perfect, that you are not going to face challenges.

That is not the point. The point is that things are going to happen. Some you can take care of. Others you are going to need other people to help you out.

But when you are in love with who you are, you can face anything. You can put yourself together, no matter what.

You can love yourself, no matter what is going on in your life. When in doubt, remember that self-love is not about being perfect.

Self-love is about being comfortable with your imperfections. It is about being okay with who you are. It is being alive. It is about loving yourself, whether things are going well with you, or you are just getting by.

It is about having the courage to be with yourself, to see the world around you in a new way.

Self-love is about knowing that other people are different, that they are going to act in different ways, that you are going to accept them, no matter what.

Self-love is not about self-abuse. It is about self-respect. It is about self-care.

It is not about being arrogant. It is not about being who you are not. It is not about thinking you are better than other people.

Self-love is your inner voice that is always there for you, especially when things are tough.

Self-love is about allowing yourself to fail, to make mistakes.

Self-love is about having the courage to do what you love, not what people want you to do.

Self-love is about enjoying the little things around you. It is being in the moment. It is about making your moments count.

So if you want to stay in love with yourself, you must work really hard to keep loving yourself.

As always, you are more, not less!

Do You Have The Courage To Love Everything About Yourself?

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development
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Yes, that is right! ‘Life is too short to spend it at war with yourself.’ It is too short.

You are not alive to fight war with yourself. You are here to enjoy your life. You are here to work, to write your own story, to make a difference in the world.

To do that, self-love comes first, not last. Because if you don’t love who you are, you won’t be able to do what you are here to do.

That is why loving yourself is the first thing to do for yourself. If you are not loving yourself, you are fighting yourself.

If you are not loving your life, you are regretting it. If you are not in love with who you are, then you are comparing your life to other people’s lives.

If you do not love yourself, you are secretly hating your life.

You are saying things like: ‘Is life even worth living? Why is my life not like other people? Why am I not getting what other people are getting? Why am I not living like other people? Why am I not working like other people? Why am I not earning what other people are earning? Why am I still where I started? What am I doing to myself?’

Stop it. Thinking negatively about yourself is not going to help you. Instead, it is going to keep you where you are.

If you want to move forward in your life, you have got to embrace everything about yourself. You have got to love everything about your life.

You must stop doing things that have no power to lift you up. You must start doing things that have the power to lift you up, to take you to where you want to be.

It starts with self-love.

As always, no matter what you are going through in your life, just remember this: ‘You are more, not less!’