Tag: Seeds

I Don’t Want Your Gifts. I Just Want You To Make Me Feel Safe And Secure

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Personal Development, Personal Growth
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Princess Diana said, “I don’t want expensive gifts; I don’t want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.” Don’t think you know what people need. No, you don’t. If you want to know what they want, ask them. If you ask, they will tell you. Money is good, but not everything in life. Money can make you feel good about yourself. But money can’t buy you real happiness. Real happiness comes from within you. It does not depend on how much you have in your bank account. Happiness doesn’t care about your bank account. It cares about your heart.

If you think you can buy happiness, you have a lot of work to do. Why is that? Because happiness is not for sale. Happiness is free. It doesn’t depend on your wealth. Stop chasing happiness. You don’t look for happiness. Do the right thing, happiness will come to you. So if you want to be happier, you must focus on what makes you happy. If you can’t make yourself happy, you can’t make other people happy. Why? Because you can’t give what you don’t have. In order to make other people happy, you must first plant the seeds of happiness.

“I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.”- Princess Diana

If you want love, plant the seeds of love. If you want happiness, plant the seeds of happiness. If you want peace, you must plant the seeds of peace. Remember that everything begins with you. You are responsible for making others happy. Above all, you are responsible for making yourself happy. Don’t buy gifts. It won’t work. Instead of buying expensive gifts, why not give part of yourself to someone who is suffering. Gifts can’t do it. Gifts are good, but can’t make people happy. As Princess Diana said, “I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.” Right. People want to be safe and secure. They want you to be there for them. They want you to appreciate them, love them, kiss them, and huge them. If you want to make people happy, show them some love. Real love. Just do it!

Never Give Up On Your Dreams. When You Are Ready, The Door Will Open

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Personal Development, Personal Growth
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As Earl Nightingale once said, “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.”

It is never too late to pursue your dreams. Your dreams will die if you don’t act. To keep your dreams alive, you must take actions to make them happen. You can make them happen. They are within your reach. They are not impossible.

Don’t kill your own dream by imposing limits on your thoughts. Remember, what you think you can do, you can. What you think you can’t do, you can’t. Do not limit yourself.

If you have the courage to pursue your dreams today, your tomorrow will be better than your today. But if you fail to pursue your dreams today, your tomorrow will be worse than your today.

In order to have a better tomorrow, you must do something today. You must change something today. You must change your thoughts. You must be honest with yourself. You must face your own reality, the reality you created for yourself. You must question your reality. Your tomorrow depends on what you are doing right now.

What you plant today will determine what you will reap tomorrow. If you plant positive seeds, you will reap positive fruits. If you plant negative seeds, you will reap negative fruits. Do not kill your dream. Give your dream a chance to survive. Give your dream a chance to grow. Water your dreams. They will water you.

People always say, “I am too old to do this or too old to do that.” Your biological age is not what is stopping you to do something to change your life; it is your thought that is holding you back.

If you change your thinking, your life will change. James Allen said, “A man can only rise, conquer, and achieve by lifting up his thoughts. He can remain weak, and object, and miserable by refusing to lift up his thoughts”

Well said. If you want to achieve small things, you do not need to work very hard. You don’t need to work hard to be an average person. Do you want to be an average person or a great person? You decide.

If you want to achieve much in life, you must do much to get it done. Success comes with a big price. Are you ready to pay the price? Are you ready to work hard? Are you ready to work smart? Are you ready to be uncomfortable?

If you want to achieve big things in your life, you must be ready to work very hard and smart. Sometimes hard work is not enough. You must work smart.

You must be willing and ready to do what others are ignoring. You must be willing and ready to be vulnerable. You must be willing and ready to get out of your bubble. You must be willing and ready to be criticized. When you are ready, the world is ready to help you succeed. When you are ready, the door will open.

There is nothing you cannot achieve in life if you are ready, willing, and committed to making it happen. You can do anything if you want to succeed.

I will sum this article up with a quote from George Whitefield. He said, “Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.”