No matter what you do in life, you are always either a benefit or a burden to those around you. Your presence or contribution either uplifts them, or weighs them down. If you’re not aware of the impact that you have on others, you’ll unwittingly undermine the very goals that you hope to achieve in…
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Understanding vs Judgement
There are two types of people in this world. Those who appreciate our efforts for trying to achieve good things. And those who ignore our efforts and judge us for failing. The ones who appreciate the effort recognise their own path towards growth, and empathise with the struggle and aspirations of others. This inspires them…
Who defines you?
It’s easy to lose ourselves to the outcomes of our lives. It’s easy to convince ourselves that our achievements, rather than our efforts, are a true reflection of the value we hold within. It’s a dance with fate that often destroys hope and replaces it with complacency. In a world saturated with the ungrateful and…
Be you…unapologetically
The opinions that others have of us affects us most when we are not convinced about who we are. It’s self-doubt that creates the space for others to influence how we feel about ourselves. Be it a troubled relationship with a family member, a partner, an ex spouse, or even a friend or colleague, the…
Don’t sell yourself short
When you surrender your principles in exchange for affection, you give others permission to demand compromises rather than create understanding. Worse than this, when you make such a compromise, you undermine your worth in the relationship by giving up what you believe in, not because you changed your beliefs, but because you wanted to be…
Don’t be a martyr
We act out of duty rather than conviction when the guilty martyr in us triumphs over our courage to be true to ourselves, and just to our souls. It is our focus on how we wish to be perceived, or how we need to meet expectations, that distracts us from our self-worth and conviction, and…