Tag: Status Quo

You Are Not Your Mistakes

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Personal Development, Personal Growth
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You are not your mistakes. And your mistakes are not you. If you want to grow your life, you can’t avoid making mistakes.

“The root of your growth is in your mistake.”

Your life is not about making mistakes. It is about learning from your mistakes. Your mistakes mean nothing. It is what you do with your mistakes, it is what you take away from them, it what you do with your mistakes, that really matters.

If you don’t learn anything from your mistakes, you are planning to fail. In life, to achieve greatness, you must discipline yourself to learn from your mistakes. Don’t just make mistakes. To make them work for you, you must learn from them.

Just because you have messed up doesn’t mean you are stupid. It means you are experimenting. It means you are trying to improve your life. It means you are no longer comfortable with the status quo. It means you are challenging yourself. It means you are becoming the real you. That is how we learn.

We learn by making mistakes. Every mistake you make brings you closer to your real life. The root of your growth is in your mistake. So if you want to grow your life, don’t be scared to make mistakes.

Growth Vs. Safety

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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“You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.”- Abraham Maslow

Life is about growth. Everything in life is growing. If you are not growing, what are you doing? Check what you are doing on a daily basis. Because how you live your day is exactly how you are living your life. If you don’t like the results, change what you do everyday. If you like it, continue doing it.

Since growth is so important to us, why do so many of us prefer safety over growth?

That has everything to do with who we are as human beings. People don’t like to change what they are comfortable with. You don’t even like to leave your bed in the morning, let alone doing something that you haven’t done before. We love to do what we are comfortable with. But the problem is, the more we do that, the more we will remain where we are. So to move forward, you must pursue growth, not safety. Because:

Growth is uncomfortable. Safety is comfortable.

Growth involves stretching yourself. Safety involves maintaining what you already know.

Growth is scary. Safety is status quo.

Growth is movement. Safety is the opposite.

Growth is change. Safety is the opposite.

Growth is living. Safety is dying.

Growth is forward. Safety is backward.

If you want to achieve your dreams, growth is the way.