Tag: Responsibility

Why You Should Define What You Want

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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If you do not know what you want to achieve in your life, speed doesn’t matter.

Competition doesn’t matter. Work doesn’t matter. Thinking does not matter.

What truly matters is what you want. Know what you want, then do whatever you can to make it happen.

But you must define it first. To do that, according to Dan Sullivan and Dr. Ben. Hardy, ask yourself the following questions:

‘What are you ultimately going for?

What are you ‘optimizing’ for?

What level of capability and results do you want to develop and master?

What are the standards you want to refine and actualize?’

Interesting, right? When you are answering them, be specific about what you truly want, what you care so much about.

Answer them in your own unique ways. Why? Because, according to Dan and Dr. Benjamin, ‘Your agency as a person is based on what you choose to develop yourself into.’ And, ‘It’s your responsibility to to define what you want and to direct your focus and attention toward that.’

Remember that ‘whatever you focus on, you become.’

Are You Playing Your Own Game?

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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Life is a game. If you want to move forward, if you want to change your life, if you want to create a better future for yourself, you must play your OWN game.

Your game is the only thing that really matters. If you play my game, you are wasting your time.

No matter how easy, how attractive, do not play other people’s games. Do not follow other people’s dreams.

Do you. Do your own dreams. Find ways to make your dreams come alive.

When you are working to make your dreams come alive, when you are playing your game, you are living; you are growing; you are learning.

When you are playing your game, you know what you want. You also know what you do not want. You know what you can do. You also know what you cannot do.

When you are playing your own game, you do not do anything to please anybody.

You live your life based on your values.

When you are playing your own game, you do not lie to yourself. You are dead honest with yourself. You know that lying to yourself is not the way forward. It is the only way to destruction.

When you are playing your own game, you are not afraid to be yourself; you are not afraid to express yourself in your own unique way.

You are just you. ‘You stop being like anyone else entirely.’

And when you are playing your own game, you take 100 percent responsibility for your life. You don’t blame people for where you are. Instead, ‘you start fully embracing the uniqueness that is you.’

If you want to create a better future for yourself, you must embrace yourself. You must treat yourself with love and respect.

Will you?