Tag: Transformation

The Power Of Suffering

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development
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According to Anthony Robbins, ‘Is there an area of your life in which you feel unnecessary pain?

Are you perhaps reacting rather than deliberately choosing?

How could you change your focus and turn a seemingly painful event into a pleasurable opportunity to learn, to grow, or help others?

What are some of your pain-avoiding and pleasure-inducing patterns?

What are some of the more positive ways in which you could move away from pain and toward pleasure?’

Whether you want to face the above questions or not, you cannot live your life without pain. It is part of who we are. No one can achieve greatness without first going through pain.

If you want to change your life, you must be comfortable with discomfort. If you want to grow, you must ‘get comfortable with uncertainty’. Without it, you are playing! You are not going anywhere.

If you do not want to get comfortable with stress, then you are not going to be able to reach your greater heights.

If you want to be successful, you must face your pain. Pain is the way to your next level. It is pain before success. It is pain before growth. It is pain before self-discovery.

In her book Why You Should Empower Yourself: How to Make Lemonade when Life Gives You Lemons, Xenia Tchoumi writes, ‘Pain is a powerful transformative force for growth. You can’t become a better person or achieve your goals without going through a certain amount of discomfort and difficulty. No one has ever made it in life without encouraging some hurdles and failures.’ The author is right.

If you want to improve your life, you must embrace uncertainty. Do not ignore it. Do not run away from difficult things. The more you do, the better for you.

When you are faced with something that you have not done before, give it a shot. When you accept the pain as part of your own growth package, you will be able to cope with it. Don’t throw away an opportunity to grow.

If you want to grow your life, to expand your world, you must embrace discomfort. The question is, ‘Do you really know how to suffer?’

As always, you are more, not less!

The Benefits Of Doing More Than You Are Paid To Do

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development
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‘When you do only that for which you are paid, there is nothing out the ordinary to attract favorable comment about the transaction; but, when you willingly do more than for which you are paid, your action attracts the attention of all who are affected by the transaction, and goes another step toward establishing a reputation that will eventually set the Law of Increasing Returns to work in your behalf, for this reputation will create a demand for your services, far and wide.’- Napoleon Hill

The world is after winners, not losers. People are after winners, not losers. Countries are after winners, creators, not losers.

The world rewards winners, not losers. People remember winners, not losers. People wants to be around winners, not losers.

If you want to be like them, you can do it. Because you can change how you think about your work.

You don’t get better by doing the same boring, unchallenging things. Winners don’t like to associate themselves with people who are not challenging themselves. Why?

Because they know what is going to happen to them. They might lose their hunger for success. They don’t want that to happen to them.

They want to win, not to settle for less. If they are not winning, they feel really uncomfortable with themselves.

If you want people to know you, you must wake up, stand up, and work up. You must not be comfortable with the status quo. It is just that.

It makes you comfortable for a day, not forever. It gives you a temporary happiness, but a lifetime of regret.

When you do a better job, people will give you more work to do. You will attract the best to you. You will be known for the best. And you will never look for work. Work will come to you.

You can do more work when you challenge yourself, when you are your own critic, when you are always fighting to get better.

That is how we get better. We get better when we do more. If you want to raise your life, do more work, not less.

As always, you are more, not less!