Tag: Spiritual awareness

What Do You Care About?

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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What do you care about? What is important to you? Why are you here?

What is a good life? Are you living a good life? If you do not think so, what are you doing to change your equation?

What are you doing to position yourself for greatness? If you want to live a good life, you must care about something?

Again, what do you care about?

‘… the good life comes from what we care about.’-

Rollo May

Take care of what you care about. If you care about love, take care of love.

If you care about people, take care of people.

If you care about health, take care of your health.

If you care about happiness, take care of your thoughts.

If you do not want to see people suffering, take care of your emotional life.

If you care about knowledge, then take care of your mind.

If you care about justice, take a stand against injustice.

If you care about growth, then take care of your habit.

If you care about peace, then take care of your spiritual life.

If you care about financial freedon, then take care of your career.

Because you can.

How To Make Your Values Work For You

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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You can make your values work for you. And you can also make your values work against you.

Respect your values. Do not disrespect your values. They are your building blocks. They are your pillars. Without them, you are nothing. Without your values, you do not have what you need to live a better life.

Your values represent you. They are your inner directors. When they talk, you listen.

When your values say no, you do it. When your values say yes, you do it. You don’t disagree with your values.

You can. But you will pay for disobeying your values. You can make your values work for you. You do that by making decisions based on your core values.

You don’t do anything that is not in line with your values. You don’t make decisions that don’t match your core values.

And you can also go against your values. You do that by doing things that are not in line with what you stand for. You do that by disrespecting your core values.

If you want peace, respect your values. If you want chaos, disrespect your values.

Life is tough. And real decisions are hard to make, especially when other people are involved.

But if you strongly believe in your values, if you know what your core values are, they can guide you through anything in your life. All you need to do is to believe in them. When you live your values, your values will live you.

When you follow your values, your values will follow you. And when you respect your values, your values will respect your life.

Remember, life is about standing for something. If you do not stand for something, then nothing is coming your way. If that is what you want, that is okay. But if it is not, you have got to step up. Are you?