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This Is What Life Requires From You

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Personal Development, Workplace Learning Report
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Life is simple. Life is not difficult. We are making things difficult for ourselves.

If we can just listen to NATURE, we won’t be in any trouble, we won’t suffer, we won’t fight against ourselves. We are in trouble because we try to change the things that we cannot change. We are in trouble because we are trying to make other people live our lives. We want them to look like us, to behave the way we behave, to do what we asked them to do.

Life does not require us to be perfect. Life does not require us to love people conditionally. Life does not require us to spend a short time with our love ones. Life does not require us to choose a career that we don’t like. Life does not require us to hate ourselves and others. Life does not require us to make things difficult for ourselves. Life does not require us to make simple things hard for ourselves.

So, what does life require that we do? To answer this question, let me quote H. Jackson Brown, Jr. According to H. Jackson Brown, Jr., “Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.” He is right.

But the problem with that quote is that we now live in a very fast world. We want to be perfect. Our managers want us to be perfect. There is no room for us to make mistakes anymore. We are constantly under pressure- work pressure, family pressure, developmental pressure, social pressure, and psychological pressure.

So how can we live a peaceful life?

We can live a peaceful life if we want to. It is simple. It starts with the choices that you make. Life does not require you to be the best in your organization. Life requires that you do your best, be your best, live your best, and celebrate your best. That is it!

Don’t do the things that you don’t like. Let them fit your values. Because whatever you do that are against your values, you are not going to be comfortable doing it. And if you are not comfortable doing your work, why are you doing it?

Remember this: don’t try to be the best, but try to do your best work every day.

That is what life requires from you!

Believe In Yourself

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development
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Joseph Campbell said, “The privilege of a life time is being who you are.”

According to James Allen, “He who believes climbs rapidly the heavenly hills.”

“Belief is an attitude of mind determining the whole course of one’s life.”- James Allen

We want to succeed in life, but we doubt ourselves. We don’t believe we can do it. We don’t believe we can do it because it has not been done before. it does not matter. Be the first person to do it.

Self-doubt is one of the reasons we struggle to get things done in life. If we believe in ourselves, there is nothing we cannot do. Greatness starts with self-belief.

When you doubt yourself, when you don’t believe in yourself, how do you expect yourself to get things done? Impossible. If you don’t believe in yourself, if you don’t believe in your vision, mission, values, no one will believe in you.

Believe in yourself, trust yourself, love yourself, and the world will believe in you and what you are selling.

Start by believing in yourself!