Often times we seek to blame people for our failure without first asking ourselves rationally what is the cause of my failure? Failure or success lies in our hands and that is why my current philosophy of life is, "Our success and failure is in our hands, we determine which path we want to follow". This is where the "self" comes to play. We should bear in mind that there is no limit to what man can become. You can become anything you wish to be.
🔥Socrates after seeing the inscription at the temple of Apollo----"Man know thyself", realized that the self has a lot of roles to play in our lives. The above aphorism "Man know thyself" tells a lot of things. I will begin by saying that to know yourself is to know that you are made of two persons in one: "You and yourself". This is the first stage of knowing yourself!
🔥When the you disagrees with yourself, you see yourself going back instead of forward. For you to succeed in life "you must believe in yourself".
🔥Believing in yourself is "you speaking positive to yourself". Tell yourself I can do it. Remember what Aristotle opined that in pursuit of perfection, you will achieve excellence. I will say in another way that trying will lead you somewhere whereas not trying will keep you static.
🔥The man know thyself reminds us to discover the inner energy in us and explore it. Discovering your inner energy is finding out what and where you are good at and developing it. The problem sometimes is that we are looking for external energy leaving our inner energy. Looking for external energy (trying to explore where you are not good at) is what is common in our society today. It is high time we looked into ourselves (introspection)
🔥Majority of the people who have made a hallmark in life concentrated in where they are good at and that gave them fame. A good teacher will always start from the known to the unknown, but the problem is when the teacher doesn't know the known. This is normally the state majority of the individuals are.
🔥If you don't believe in yourself, no one will believe in you. We are the archetype of our lives. We are the captain in the ship of our life.
☑️ How you present yourself is how people will take you.
☑️🔥Do not allow people to define you for yourself rather define yourself for people.
☑️Do not allow people to tell you who you are, tell people what you are .
☑️Do not allow yourself to be intimidated by yourself rather tell yourself that you are in charge.
☑️Do not be afraid to fail when trying rather see failure as one of the steps to your success.
☑️Believe in yourself.
☑️Be yourself .
☑️Live your life and not another person's life.
☑️Be optimistic about your life.
©️Abonyi Hyginus Ebuka
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