When you find reason to sit back and lick the wounds of your ego, remember this.
No one will ever be as invested in your success as you are.
The sooner you own your life, the sooner you’ll be able to enrich the lives of those around you.
It’s easier to fail collectively, than to fail alone.
Setting out on a path of your own demands a level of courage and conviction that is erased from your life when you live according to the whims and weaknesses of those around you.
Too often we lack the courage to stand strong when we go against the grain, and then blame family or society for not supporting us in our wishes to change the world.
Turn your wishes into action or else accept that you are defined by your fears and not your convictions.
Resisting this reality will negatively affect your health and your happiness.
#conviction #dreams #commitment #confidence #passion #socialacceptance #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthrecovery #selfworth #selflove #selfawareness #selfrespect #reflection #mindfulness #ambition #goals #lifegoals
Category: Leadership
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Failure is not a group sport
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Be purposeful
Be the one who acts with purpose and conviction, and leave greatness to take care of itself.
The moment you’re focused on who you’re attracting, or how you appear to others, you’re distracted from your purpose.
Be purposeful. And connect with the value of who you are and what you wish to create in the lives of those around you.
The rest will find its own balance.
And the need for control will disappear as you learn to trust in the benefit of living purposefully and with conviction.
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It’s not yet time to quit
Inspiration…if it came easily, it wouldn’t really be inspired, it would be convenient.
It’s in those moments when everything we want to take for granted is not available that we are pushed to consider the impossible as a possibility.
That’s when we dig really deep.
That’s when we abandon convention.
That’s when what we question the limits that we assumed were unconquerable, and attack it with a ferocity that reveals its irrelevance.
Inspiration is what we discover at the end of exhaustion, when giving up is not an option.
Don’t stop.
Keep pushing.
Keep believing.
Your dream is within reach.
Just don’t stop reaching for it.
#hope #expectation #sincerity #optimism #perseverance #motivation #goals #ambition #success #selfawareness #selfrespect #mindfulness #inspiration #ownyourshit #ownyourlife #theegosystem #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthrecovery #zaidismail -
More than a wish
Wishing it’s a sunny day when it’s raining is not going to make the sun come out.
Leaving your umbrella behind is therefore an act of foolishness, not optimism.
Optimism without evidence or action, or both, is a delusion we use to cope with an unpleasant reality.
Wishing away reality only allows that unpleasantness to fester and gain momentum, because natural cycles that are not disrupted by deliberate action will continue to grow in strength.
Let your optimism be based on your belief in the effectiveness of your efforts, not in wishes that have no support in becoming real.
And faith, of course. But faith is the basis of optimism, and faith, without effort, is simply wishful thinking.
Start by taking action, and then have faith that your action will create opportunities to achieve your goals.
Do this, and optimism will take care of itself.
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Dare to dream
When we pursue the impossible, we achieve the unbelievable.
But, we’re often so distracted by how impossible our goal might appear, that we lose sight of everything that its pursuit offers us.
Fortune cookie wisdom tells us that it’s the journey that matters, not the destination.
Yet, we lose sight of the growth that the journey offers, and give up the pursuit of a seemingly impossible destination.
Today is a good day to take that step towards that impossible dream that you’ve been courting with for so long.
No time like the present, right?
#hope #expectation #dreams #goals #motivation #optimism #lifegoals #lifecoaching #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthrecovery #selfworth #selflove #selfawareness #selfrespect #mindfulness #inspiration #zaidismail #ownyourshit #ownyourlife #theegosystem #embracingME #pursuitofhappiness -
Your perspective is your choice
Perspective is a choice, not an inheritance.
Improve your awareness of why you believe what you believe, and it will be possible to consciously choose what resonates with your personal value system, and discarding what doesn’t.
When we lose sight of why we hold the perspectives that we do, and those perspectives create a conflict within us, we feel an increase in stress and anger without always understanding why.
At those times, it’s easy to explain our emotional state by connecting it with our perspectives that are being challenged.
However, responding from a position of anger or defence because of a perceived attack on what we believe to be true is a defence mechanism.
We would have no reason to defend that which we believe is based on an objective truth.
The only way to achieve such a level of confidence in our perspectives and beliefs is by improving our self awareness, and thereby improving our ability to critically assess what we stand for, and why.
This will go a long way towards finding balance in life, and knowing which battles are worth fighting, and which are not.
#perspective #trust #truth #trustissues #beliefsystem #valuesystem #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthrecovery #selfworth #selflove #selfawareness #selfrespect #mindfulness #inspiration #ownyourshit #ownyourlife #theegosystem #embracingME #zaidismail -
Be exceptional
If we focus on the exception, we’ll realise what is possible.
If we focus on the norm, we’ll surrender to what we think is inevitable.
This is at the heart of mediocrity versus excellence.
There are those that look at trends and try to follow, and those that focus on value and pursue a better path. Wanting to lead doesn’t drive their agenda.
Leadership is a natural consequence of acting with conviction in wanting to realise the value that you believe will benefit others.
Stop being distracted by the norms you see around you so that you’ll be able to recognise the potential beyond it.
#leadershipcoaching #careercoaching #mentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthrecovery #selfworth #selflove #selfawareness #selfrespect #mindfulness #inspiration #ownyourshit #ownyourlife #theegosystem #embracingME #pursuitofhappiness #victimmentality
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Wisdom with purpose
Acquiring knowledge without implementing it is like hoping to quench your thirst while standing in the rain.
Seeking to understand is great, but only if we apply that understanding in the way we treat others.
Similarly, acquiring technical knowledge may feed our fascination, but fulfilment lies in using that knowledge to create something of substance that offers value to others.
I think it was Al Ghazzali that said, “Why accumulate more knowledge if you don’t practice on the knowledge that you have?”
#education #learning #knowledge #fulfilment #reward #lifegoals #motivation #optimism #mentalhealth #mindfulness #inspiration #ownyourshit #ownyourlife #theegosystem #embracingME
