Tag: Thoughts

If You Don’t Know Where To Start, These Quotes Are For You

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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We are here to make progress, to make a difference, to connect, and to live our lives. If you really want to do what you are here to do, you must move forward. If not, nothing is going to happen.

If you don’t know where to start, the following quotes are for you:

‘Regardless of your level of experience in any field, you need a coach.’ No matter how smart you are, if you want to get to your next level, you need a coach

‘You can think yourself to greatness if you take action.’ Action is everything. It is not what you say that matters. It is what you do that people care about. If you want people to respect, take action.

‘Open your mind and remain a committed student of great information.‘ Nobody can teach you what you think you already know. If you want to learn, you must ‘remain a committed student of great information.’

‘The way you think either takes you to your goals or keeps you from reaching your goals.’ Focus on what you want for yourself. Focus your thoughts on what you want. If you want to do something, focus your thoughts on it. It will happen if you act.

‘You are one great question away from anything you want in life at all times. ‘ Don’t wait for answers. There is nothing there. If you want to know more about anything, ask great questions.

‘Champions are always looking for the competitive advantage they can create.’ Are you a champion? If you are, are you asking, ‘What’s important now?’ If you are, you are on your right path.

‘It is impossible to be positive while planting negative thoughts in your mental garden.’ You can’t share yourself. You can only be you. Things are not going to be perfect in your life. Whatever you have, be grateful. It is yours.

‘You can only soar as high as the standards you set in life.’ Your goal is your goal. Make it personal. Because if your goal is not yours, according to Paul, ‘you are lost.’

Source: Paul Cummings, It All Matters: 125 Strategies to Achieve Maximum Confidence, Clarity, Certainty and Creativity

Self-Examination Is Everything. Here Is Why

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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‘Self-examination is about seeing with the ‘eyes of the core.’ The eyes in our head see the physical world around us. The eyes of our core provide insights about our beliefs, thoughts, feelings motives, and actions.’– Tim Irwin, PhD

Why is self-examination so important? It is important because we are human beings. And human beings make mistakes.

Human beings are full of different biases. It is also important because we don’t know who we are.

When you ask people to tell you something about themselves, you will hear stories.

But the reality is a different song. The reality is a foreign language. Why is that? Because they don’t know who they are.

What they know about themselves is what the world has given to them. It is not who they are.

To know who you really are, you must examine yourself. And do not do it if you are not going to use the results to improve your life.

Self-examination is everything. It is your hidden eyes. It is not going to lie to you. If you do it well, you will learn something about yourself.

But if you don’t, you will stay the same. That is why it pays to be real with yourself when you are examining yourself.

Self-examination is about honesty. It is about growth. We grow when we examine ourselves. We move forward when we face what is holding us.

If you are not getting ahead in your life, it pays to talk to your self-examination.

Self-examination helps you get better at what you. It reveals your real self to you.

It points out what you don’t know about yourself. It shows you your weaknesses, your negative thoughts, your biases, your dark side.

It also shows you what you are doing well. When you examine yourself, it brings change to you.

It does not matter what you do, where you are in your life, if you want to get to your next level, you must examine yourself. Because

To achieve greatness in our lives, according to Tim, we must seek to understand and harness the unique forces that will make us more effective as well as to diminish those weaknesses that will render us less so.’