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4 Critical Ways To Find Out Who You Really Are

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko

Who are you? What do you really want for yourself? What do you really want for your life? Why are you here? Do you know what you are good at? Do you know what you are not good at?

If you want to be successful in your life, you must focus on what you are good at. And to focus on what you are good at, you must first know who you are. Because you cannot be good at something if you do not know who you are.

If you don’t know who you are, you really can’t develop yourself.

So if you really want to make a difference in your life, here is how to go about it:

Go after what you want

If you can face what you want, you can develop yourself. If you can face what you really want for your life, you can grow yourself. But if you don’t know what you want, if you do not have the courage to face what you want, you can’t go for it. According to Barbara Sher, “You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.” No matter how scary your dream may be, do not be scared to face it. Because if you do not have the courage to face your fears, you are not going to succeed.

Don’t play it too safe

If you want your life to change, if you want to change the direction of your life, you must NOT play it too safe. Do not be scared to make mistakes, to fail. People don’t try because they don’t want to fail. If you want to win, play it hard, not safe. Barbara Sher said, “When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risks of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.” To succeed, you must take risks. If you fail, do it again.

Focus on the goodness within you

That is why you should always try to be around great people. When you are with great people, they will make you bigger than yourself. When you are with small-minded people, they will make you smaller than you really are.

To defeat people’s opinions of you, you must have the courage to focus on the goodness within you. You have it. All you need to do is to reconnect with your true self. Do not try to be good. You are great!

According to Eckhart Tolle, “You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the greatness that is already within you allowing that goodness to emerge.” You are already good. Do not try to convince other people to believe in you, in your dreams. Because other people cannot make you who you are not. Other people cannot give you what you cannot give yourself.

You already have what it takes to do great things in your life.

Focus on your inner stillness

You don’t here yourself because you do not listen to yourself. Your inner voice talks to you every day, but you never listen. You are always busy. You are always working, always jumping from place to place. You never find the time to listen to your inner voice.

Remember, you can’t hear if you do not listen. Eckhart Tolle said, “When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.” It is good to listen to yourself. Do not be uncomfortable with yourself. When you connect with your inner life, you connect with your true self.

What Do You Really Want?

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio

What you are going through right now is not part of who you are, is not who you are, is not part of your dream, is not you. But do not let what you are going through stop you from pursuing your true life. Because whatever you are going in your life is temporary, not permanent. It will go away.

But do not forget that where there are issues, where there are problems, where there are obstacles, there are solutions. The point is to trust yourself. Just focus on where you are going. Because real success comes from pursuing your dreams and being willing and ready to do whatever it takes to get what you want. Just make sure you are doing what you are supposed to be doing to get what you want.

Remember, what you want is not going to come to you. If you really want it, you must go out there and fight for what you want. Do not forget failure. But in spite of failures, as long as you never stop thinking, never stop working, never get distracted, you will arrive at your destination. The real question here is: What do you really want?

Do not forget that you will get what you want if you really want it. We do not see what we have because we never stop worrying about what is not there. We are always thinking about what we want to get. When we don’t get what we want, we get distracted. But do not let that happen to you.

Whether you get what you want or not, celebrate what you already have. What you already have is priceless. Do not ignore what you have, celebrate it. You have what you have for a reason. From now on, you should always focus on what you already have. People are not happy because they never stop thinking about what they do not have. Remember, the more you think about what you don’t have, the more you get distracted. Do not let that happen to you.

You can make yourself happy. You can do that by focusing on what you already have, not what you do not have. Be grateful for what you already have, not what you do not have. Because what you have is yours.