Tag: Self-acceptance

Sophia Loren On How To Live A More Fulfilled Life

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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To live a fulfilled life, you must accept yourself. Life is not about others; it is about you. So how you live it matters. It starts with self-acceptance. It starts with self-love. If you don’t accept yourself as you are, who do you think is going accept you?

To live a fulfilled life, according to Sophia Loren,

“Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.”

“I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide their past.” Your past is a part of who you are. Whether good or bad, be proud of your past. You can’t write your story without your past. What you have been through in the past is a part of you. What you are going through right now is uniquely yours. If you can endure it, why not? If not, move on.

“It is better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not explore at all.” A life not explored is a life wasted. If you want to really live a fulfilled life, don’t be afraid to make mistakes. You can’t live your life without making one, two, three, or even four mistakes. If you don’t make mistakes, it means you are not exploring your life. It means you are not taking chances. It means you are ignoring opportunities. It means you are living in the past.

“I was blessed with a sense of my own destiny. I have never sold myself short. I have never judged myself by other people’s standards.” That is how you should live your own life too. Don’t live your life by other people’s standards. Live your life by your own standards. They are yours. Own them. No matter what, no matter what you are selling, you should never sell yourself short. In other words, you should never settle for less. Your destiny is in your hands. Don’t sell it short.

“I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself. So failure or reversal does not bring out resentment in me because I cannot blame others for any misfortune that befalls me.” This is very important. Don’t ignore it. If you fail at something, take it. Accept it. Don’t blame others for your mistakes. It is your life. For this reason, you must ALWAYS hold yourself accountable for your failures or mistakes.

Breaking Out Of Mediocrity

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Change Management, Health & Well-Being, Personal Development, Personal Growth, Workplace Learning Report
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“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors for you where there were only walls.”- Joseph Campbell

You are bigger and better than what you are accepting right now. Don’t limit yourself. You have what it takes to succeed in life. What you think you deserve is not really what you deserved. You are worth more than that.

Whatever you are accepting right now, think about it. Don’t accept anything less than what you are worth. You are the only person who can tell the world what you really worth.

You are what you say you worth. Don’t let people put you down. You are better than what they are giving you. Give yourself the gift of life. The gift of positive self-worth. Don’t sell yourself short. Sell yourself tall.

You are not like any other person in the world. You are a unique human being. In order to maintain your uniqueness, you must break out of your comfort zone. You must break out of your mediocrity. There is nothing happening there. Even if all the people you know are living in mediocrity zone, you must break out. You must be different. Do not apologize for being different. Don’t!

You must break out of mediocrity. Don’t accept mediocrity. It is a disease. If you accept it, it will kill your growth and development.

“Mediocrity is a disease.”

To break out of mediocrity, you must be willing and ready to change your mind. Everything starts in your mind. You must know what you want, who you are, where you are going, and how to get there. You must think about what you are accepting. You must change how you see and carry yourself. Know this: if you don’t change, nothing will change. So if you want things to change, you must first change yourself. Change how you think. Change how you see the world around you.

If you think you can change your life, you can change it. If you think you cannot change your life, you cannot change it.

If you believe you have what it takes to succeed in life, you will succeed. If you believe you do not have what it takes to succeed in life, you won’t. Be careful what you accept.

Instead of trying to be like everyone else, be yourself. You can not be like anyone else. No one can be like you. You are not supposed to be like everyone else. You are supposed to be like yourself.

Be yourself. Be you. Don’t be like everyone else. Don’t even try to fit in. Your goal in life is to stand out, not to stand in.

Life is too short. Don’t waste yours. Break out!