Tag: Possibilities

How You Can Get Out Of Your Own Trap

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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“You don’t see your prison because its bars are invisible.”- Dan Millman

To know what is possible, you must first know who you are. If you do not know who you are, what you want, and where you are going, you can’t help yourself. You can’t get yourself out of your own trap. Look, whatever you want, you can get it. But you must do the dirty work. You must first get out of your own prison.

Prison? According to Dan Millman, “You don’t see your prison because its bars are invisible.” A lot of people are in prison. Some know why they are there. Others don’t care to know why they are there. Look, if you don’t care about your own life, who do you think is going to care? Who?

“Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.”- Ram Dass

As I said before, if you want to create a better life for yourself, you can do it. To start, you must know what you want, who you are, and where you are going. Ram Dass once said, “Only when I know who I am will I know what is possible.” If you do not know who you are, how are you going to know what is possible?

Knowing who you are is the first step to getting what you want. If you know what you want, you can get what you want. If you don’t know what you want, you can’t get what you want.

To get what you want, if it is not out there, then create your own opportunity. Shakti Gawain said, “You create your own opportunities by asking for them.” That is right. Why? Because everything is out there. Opportunities are out there. And they belong to those who know what they want. If you know what you want, you can get them.

The door is open. If you want to know yourself, what you want in your life, then you must first be honest with yourself. Why is that? Because “fredom is for honest people.”

L. Ron Hubbard once said, “Freedom is for honest people. No man who is not himself honest can be free- he is in his own trap.” If you are honest with yourself, you are free to live your life on your own terms. But if you are not honest with yourself, you are in your own self-designed prison. You are in your own trap. To get out, do not lie to yourself.

This Is Your Only Obligation On This Earth

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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“If you don’t understand yourself, you don’t understand anybody else.”- Nikki Giovanni

Can you touch yourself? Can you touch other people? Do you know who you really are? Are you comfortable with yourself? If you are not, why? Do you know? Maybe, maybe not.

Whether you know why you are here or not, one thing is clear: you are here for a reason. You are here to write your own statement, to write your own book (one page at a time), to live your life on your own terms, to challenge the status quo, to change things, to touch people.

To touch others, you must first touch yourself. You must be comfortable with yourself. Anne Morrow Lindbergh said, “When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.” Before you can do, you must first be.

“The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.”- Anne Morrow Lindberg

If you are out of touch with yourself, you are out of touch with other people. You are out of touch with your inner self. And you are out of touch with the world around you. No matter how things are in your life, always be honest with yourself, especially your inner world, your inner life, your soul.

Richard Bach said, “Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not impossible, but the mark of a fake messiah.”

Whether you are where you are supposed to be or not, you should never forget to be true to yourself. Whatever you are going through right now, if you are honest with yourself, if you are true to yourself, you can handle it.

Whether the day is dark or not, whether the road ahead is foggy or not, whether the sun is shinning or not, always be true to yourself. Always do what is right. Always focus on what is there, not what is not there.

That is your only obligation on this earth: to be true to yourself.