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Love Yourself Enough To Live Your Life

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Leadership, Management, Personal Development

Why are you here? Are you here to live your life, or are you here to live for others?

Let us be real here. We are here live for ourselves. Because you cannot give what you do not have. If you do not have, you cannot give. If you do not have what it takes to lead yourself, you won’t be able to lead others.

No matter where you are, what you are doing, always find ways to express yourself, to represent yourself, to love yourself, and to give yourself the best.

Believe that you are good enough, that you are not a loser, but a winner. Believe that your life is worth fighting for. Believe that what you are doing is what you are meant to do.

If you do not believe in what you are doing, you won’t succeed. That is not for you. Because you are not here to lose. You are alive to win, to create your life, to write your own story one page at a time.

When your writing is not going well for you, love yourself anyway. When you are in doubt, you do not believe in yourself, love yourself anyway. Because love is energy.

When things are tough, you are not doing well, things are everywhere, do not forget to reconnect with your dreams.

Let your dreams be your fuel. Let your life be the reason that you get up every morning. Do not let your struggles hold you back. Love yourself enough to go for what you want. Love yourself enough to do things that make you happy, that bring you joy. And love yourself enough to accept who you are, no matter what. The question is, ‘Will you love yourself enough to give yourself the best?’

How Great Leaders Communicate

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Improve Academy, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Workplace Learning
Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko on Pexels.com

Whether you are in a leadership position or not, if you want to win, connecting with other people is the only way to get there.

In her book Communicate Like a Leader: Connecting Stratrgically to Coach, Inspire, and Get things Done, Dianna Booher writes, ‘Effective communicators know that their body language and behavior trump their words.’

‘Strong communicators trade on trust. It’s their currency.’

‘Strategic thinkers use leading questions to advance a discussion and their cause.’

‘Nothing starts you on the road to recovering trust like admitting to your troops your lapse in judgment.’

‘Words are never the whole story.’

‘Getting upset boosts your blood pressure; laughing and a lighthearted culture boosts your productivity and your influence.’

‘With the pressures of leadership, you have a choice- to get upset or to get a laugh.’

‘Nothing makes leaders look more capable than handling tough questions with credibility and ease.’

‘Your document should not reflect everything you know about a subject. It should reflect everything you think significant.’

‘As with race cars, what’s ‘under the hood’ drives a meeting’s overall success.’

‘If you show up physically, be present mentally.‘

Source:

Dianna Booher (2017). Communicate Like a Leader: Connecting Strategically to Coach, Inspire, and Get Things Done