Tag: Positive Actions

You Have What It Takes To Make Your Life Better

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
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Life is too short to rely on people. Life is too short to wait for people to make your life better. No, don’t wait. Because you have what it takes to make your own life better.

At the end of the day, you are responsible for your life. You are responsible for your growth. You are responsible for your career. You have to take care of your life. You have to do the work. You have to be you, no matter what. No one is going to take care of your career for you. Only you can do that for yourself.

So, stop waiting for your boss to make your life better. You have to do that for yourself. Stop waiting for your friends to make you happy. If you want to be happy, then do it for yourself. Take full responsibility for your happiness.

Stop waiting for the perfect time to get your life back on track. You can do it now. Now, not tomorrow. Stop relying on people to make you come alive. They can’t make you come alive. Only you can make yourself come alive.

Don’t rely on people to take care of your life. You can take care of you. You are not alive to follow the crowd. You are alive to stand out. You are alive to live your own life, not to be part of other people’s plans.

If you rely on people, you are setting yourself up for failure. Why is that? Because people change. People don’t stay the same. If you rely on people, what happens if they don’t want to deal with you anymore? What happens if they are no longer interested in doing anything with you?

What are you going to do? Are you going to be sad? Are you going to be happy? Are you going to be disappointed in yourself?

Don’t! Because you are better than that. You have the power to choose you. You have the power to change your own life. You have the mind to lead your life. And you have the heart to love yourself. That is why you should not rely on anyone to make you come alive.

Because you are already alive. Because you have the power to choose you. You have the power to take full responsibility for your life, to lead your life.

Don’t let fear keep you stuck. Don’t let other people’s opinions of you keep you stuck. Don’t wait for other people to make your life better. You can make your own life better. And don’t be afraid to live it.

You Cannot Lead Others Until You Accept Them

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Leadership, Management, Workplace Learning
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If you want people to follow you, to listen to you, to work for you, you have to be you. Do not try to be who you are not. Don’t try to make yourself look smarter than you are. Because that is not what leading other people is about.

Leading other people is not about what you know. It is not about what you say. It is not about your position in the society.

Leadership is about connection. It is about making connections with real people. It is about representing something- popular or unpopular- it doesn’t matter.

Leadership is about seeing people as people. It is about loving people for who they are, not for what they can do for you.

Leadership is about doing, not about talking. Because great leaders work. They do the work. They don’t just talk about what they will do, but they actually do what they say they will do.

When you are leading other people, you have got to be okay with the fact that people are different, that people want different things. You have got to be okay with the fact that people are chasing different dreams, that they are going through different things in their lives. You have got to accept the fact that you are their leader, that you have the power, the wisdom, the love, to help them get better, to give them hope.

You have got to accept the fact that no matter how good you are, no matter how smart you are, whether you put your people first or last, some of your people are not going to be okay with your leadership. Some are going to challenge you. Others are just going to go with the flow.

As their leader, you are supposed to lead them, not to ignore them. Listen to them. Ask them what their concerns are. Because you have a lot to learn from them.

Remember, an organization is one with many characters. To learn from them, you have got to love them for who they are. And they will love you for who you are. That is leadership.

Great leaders love people for who they are, not for what they can do for them.