Tag: Time

If Not Now, When?

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
Photo by Bich Tran

To start anything, to get something done, to work on yourself, there is no perfect time to do it. The best time to take action is now. Now is the best time to face your fears. Now is the best time to stop pleasing people.

If you don’t take action now to create a better life, you are going to wait forever. Why is that? Because there is no perfect time to live your life. Stop planning to live. Stop planning to start something. Just start.

Because there is no perfect time to start something. Because there is no perfect time to live your life. If you do not live now, when are you going to live your life?

If you do not do it now, when are you going to do it?

If you are not planning now, when are you going to start?

If you are scared of facing your fears, when are you going to face them. Because they are there. If you want to succeed, you must do something about your fears.

If not now, when? If not now, when? If you do not do it, who will?

What are you waiting for? Who are you waiting for? Don’t wait. Because no one is waiting for you.

If you don’t have the courage to change things now, when are you going to have it? If not now, when are you going to take action? If not now, when? When?

Who Are You Seeking?

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
Photo by Tima Miroshnichenko

William James famously said, ‘Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.”Yes, you are incomparable. Because there is no one like you. God created you to love yourself, not to compare yourself to other people.

Love yourself. If you don’t have the courage to love yourself, who do you think is going to love you? Nobody. Don’t spend your precious time looking for that person who will do everything for you, who will make you happy, who will love you. There is none out there.

Don’t look for that person who will be with you when things are bad, be with yourself. Don’t look for people to blame when things are not going your way, blame yourself.

Look, my friends, before you reach out to people for help, reach out to yourself first. Because everything you are looking for is already inside of you. Whatever you are looking for, you already have. All you need to do is to just believe in yourself. Believe that you are in charge of your life. Believe that you are not going to waste your life trying to please people.

You are not here to please people; you are here to create your own life. You are here to set your own standards. You are not here to live by other people’s standards. And to do that, you must detach yourself from the crowd. Don’t follow the crowd. Do your own thing. Follow your own path. Do not let people define your life for you. Define it yourself. Be comfortable with yourself. Because if you are not comfortable with yourself, you can’t define your purpose in life.

So to be really successful in life, you must define success in your own way. Because success means different things to different people. Whatever it is that you are pursuing, you must take charge of it. If not, you will lose it.