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“What Are You Sowing?”

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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What are you planting? What are you doing to change your life? What are you doing to get yourself from where you are to where you want to be?

If you want to do anything, now is the right time. If you want to study, learn something, improve your skills, now is the time. Remember, according to Leo Buscaglia, “Change is the true result of all through learning.”

If you want to grow, learn something new. If you don’t like what you are getting, then learn something new. The more you learn, the more you will know. And the more questions you will ask. Anthony de Mello said, “When we don’t accept or follow, but question, investigate, penetrate, there is an insight out of which comes creativity, joy.” Do not just follow the crowd.

Ask the right questions. Know what you want. Know where you are going. And most importantly, know what you do not want.

“If our life here is anything, it is a preparation for the life to come.”- Robert Collier

Whether you like it or not, everything you do in your life is a seed.

Resentment is a seed. Fear is a seed. Love is a seed. Courage is a seed. Happiness is a seed. Hate is a seed. Work is a seed. Exercise is a seed. Learning is a seed. Envy is a seed. Thought is a seed. Laziness is a seed. Focus is a seed. Patience is a seed. Positive attitude is a seed. Money is a seed. Like it or not, everything is a seed.

So if you want to achieve greatness in your life, you must plant the right seeds. If you want more money, then sow the seeds of work. Robert Collier said, “We are all sowers, and the seeds we sow in good ground are seeds of success, of riches and happiness. Every word we speak, everything we do, is a seed.”

Before you do anything, make sure you know what you are getting yourself into. “Pick your soil” wisely.

Further Reading:

Collier, R., The Life Magnet: Put Your Mind At Your Command- And Win At Life! (New York: Penguin Group, 2010): 242-244, 374-375.

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.”