Category: motivation
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Appreciate yourself.
Okay, I did “steal” that from Jay Sherry’s Instagram . But that’s because it spoke to me in the moment. It really is easy to see flaws because after-all they are a bump on the whole big skin, a spot on an otherwise perfect surface, a bend in an otherwise flawless shape or line. Point…
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Time a healer of all wounds ?
This is a common cliche. We tell our friends, family, the general universal population that in due time their wounds will heal. Today I am thinking that this phenomenon is in itself flawed. Time can not be an independent healing factor. Healing of tissues comes with fibrosis in which case scar(s) are formed. Some scars…
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Give yourself time to grow.
All Growth takes time. You may be thinking it’s unfair, hectic and slightly ungratifying in this moment that you’re not seeing much progress on your chosen path. Don’t be discouraged. Every stage of your growth feeds into the next. Let’s think of a baby bring formed, born and growing through the first moments of life…
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I can’t Vs. How can I ?
The first phrase is inhibitive to success because it shuts every door that leads to your creativity pockets. The latter phrase however, is one that impels creativity and incites drive. Since I completed my bachelor’s program, I knew that I wanted to continue to study but everytime I tried to find ways to fulfil that…
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Forgive yourself for what you did in your survival mode.
And now moving forward, the best of your energies needs to be focused on what you do next to continue on the healing journey, rebuilding and thriving. You are here only because you survived. Celebrate your wins, acknowledge your strength, be kind to yourself and gentle to your soul.
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Stay at it…
Keep working on your craft and be the master of it. It really is easy to give up on something when we work on it for long. If in your heart you know that you’re on a course that you have chosen to lead you towards your goal, don’t just give up. Learn, unlearn, relearn.…
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Some storms come to clear your path.
Sometimes when you think that everything is falling apart things may be falling in place. May this hold true for you and your loved ones once it has passed and the sky clears up. May you and your loved ones hold up long enough to see the sun rise and beam, in a sky still…
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You matter. I matter. We matter.
If we all put the goodness in use; that acquired by nature as human beings and everything we have learnt through nurture we shall realise that we are all an important part of the world. It’s like a symphony in which everyone finds their part and when we all play it right we create a…
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What if kindness became the new extreme ?
What if we filled the world with so much love and expressed so much kindness until we have given everything there is in us to give ? Kindness is expressed in all forms; simple as a smile offered to a total stranger, a good morning to the person who just stands next to you or…
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Be yourself. Don’t struggle to fit in.
You don’t have to morph yourself into something else in order to fit into every space. Some places are never meant for you whereas in others you will seamlessly fit. This messages of course requires a level of self awareness, maturity and strength of character. To be of strong and noble character, of good moral…
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Just do You.
I have heard often times that trying to please everyone is a sure way to failure. I believe it is true. Come to think of it. If you attempted to please everyone, you would have to meet the tastes and expectations of each of those people simultaneously and then yours too. How exhausting ! The…
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Turn your mess into your message…
… And your pain into your power. Whatever your cross is, it is a preparation for your crown. Whatever you’re going through someone has been through and another person will. Your testimony will uplift them through the same so your mess could be the message that someone else needs to pull through their own situation.…
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Progress
Any progress is better than no progress at all. Sometimes your progress may look like a bunch of failures. Nobody ever said your journey would be easy. It should simply be worth it. Some days you’ll be on a streak, some days you’ll be staring at a wall, other times at your trail that seems…
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Fight.
Don’t give up. Go to bed everyday with the hope of tomorrow’s dawn. Wake up everyday, dress up and show up. Trouble don’t last always. Whatever you’re going through shall pass. When you have overcome this battle, you’ll be better for it. You will be okay, more than okay after it has passed. Survivor is…
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Walk tall
Walk tall when you see from a fall. Dust yourself and rise. You loved, you fought, you lost. You came, you showed up and showed out. That’s okay. Get on up and stand on your feet; shoulders back and square, chin up, eyes forward and walk tall. The greatest shame is what we carry within…
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You’re never a finished product.
There is a constant temptation in my heart and mind to sit back in complacent not so desirable comfort which is easy, until I am reminded that I haven’t scratched the surface of my potential. I remember that this is not the dream and I am not nearly done forming into my truest self. I…