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13 Powerful Quotes On How To Connect With People

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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If you want to build and strengthen your relationships with other people, you must get out of your comfort zone.

Meet people where they are.

‘We’re all just kind of waiting for connection to find us.’- Jennie Allen

Learn how to have real conversations with people.

‘We’ve replaced intrusive, real conversations with small talks, and we’ve substituted soul-baring, deep, connected living with texts and a night out together every once in a while.’- Jennie Allen

Live your life every day.

‘We are meant to live in community, moment by moment, breath by breath.’- Jennie Allen

Believe in God.

‘You will disappoint me. I will disappoint you. God will never disappoint us.’- Jennie Allen

Spend your day with positive people.

‘We’re not meant to go through our days alone.’- Jennie Allen

Show up.

‘You have to show up and put one foot in front of another here.’- Jennie Allen

Embrace other people.

‘No one can be your everything, but everyone has something to say, something to teach you, and something to bring to your life.’- Jennie Allen

Start where you are.

‘Anywhere can become a place to carry out your mission and anyone can become teammates.’- Jennie Allen

Be patient with people.

‘True discipleship isn’t something you do once a week. It’s what you do every day because that’s when you get to know people.’- Jennie Allen

Take your time.

‘The inconvenience chosen again and again changes us, wakes us up, makes us laugh and love and hope and dream.’- Jennie Allen

‘Friendships take time- a lot of time.’

‘I’m convinced a key reason for our loneliness is that we give up too easily.’- Jennie Allen

Be honest with yourself.

‘But the truth is always difficult, until it absolutely liberates your life.’- Jennie Allen

You need other people

‘We belong to each other.’- Jennie Allen

How To Be Who You Really Are

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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To be authentic, you need to be able to stand up for yourself, for your life, for your relationships,
and for your future. If you are not for yourself, then you are against yourself.

If you want to be yourself, your real self, then practice the following strategies every day.

Always tell yourself the truth. In his book Authentic: How to be Yourself And Why it Matters, 
Stephen Joseph writes, 'To be authentic, we need to be able to face up to the truth
about ourselves, no matter how unpleasant we might find it.'' If you respect yourself, others will
respect you. If you are not true to yourself, if you are not being honest with yourself,
you are not deceiving other people; you are deceiving yourself. And it is not good for your
growth and development. Because you can't help yourself. So if you want to move forward 
in your life, be an authentic person, no matter what.

Always take responsibility for your life. It is your life. You can do whatever you want with it.
That includes taking responsibility for your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions. When it comes to you,
you are responsible for everything in your life. In the words of Stephen Joseph, 'Authentic people
take resposibility for for their choices in life.'' If you want to be successful, you must be the boss 
of your life. If not, you will find it difficult to express your real self.

Do not follow the crowd. If you want to be different, you must do things differently. If you want
a different result, you must think differently. To do that, you must be able to stand on your own. 
You must be able to live with yourself. Do not try to fit in. Instead of trying to fit in, why not try to fit out?
To quote Stephen, 'Authenticity requires you to be able to overcome our desires to fit in and be 
part of the crowd.'' If you want to grow, don't work to be like other people, work to be like yourself.
Because you can never be like another person. So trying to do it is a total waste of your time.

Always pay attention to how you feel about yourself. In her book Now Go Out There and get curious, Mary Karr writes, 'Don't make the mistake of comparing your twisted-up insides to people's blow-dried outsides.'' That is what you should always do. Do not worry about what others are posting on 
their social media accounts. Focus on your own life. Focus on how you want to achieve your dreams.
That is more important than comparing yourself to other people. Accodring to Stephen, 'Authenticity 
requires that we are aware of what's going on in our bodies; that we are not only attentive to our 
feelings and mindful of our thinking but to all that is happening within us.'' Do not ignore your internal self,
no matter what.