“The happy life is impossible without finding an answer to the question “Why am I here? What am doing here?” -Sunday Adelaja.
1. Guide your God-given power well.
Whatever you spend most of your time focusing on expands, it grows. This is because a human brain has something called Reticular Activating System (RAS) which focuses on what is important. The question is, how does it know what is important? The answer is: it works on a principle that whatever you are focusing on is what you want. It cannot differentiate between good and bad. It just uses the principle without fail and it’s very effective and efficient at this. So, understanding this important fact will add so much value to your life. Focusing on mistakes, blaming everything and everybody only guides your RAS to focus on these as important for you and show you more of them which is not what you want in your life. Unfortunately, we are not taught this stuff at school, which is very sad.
2. Have a positive identity.
Muhammed Ali said: “I’m the greatest! I’m the greatest thing that ever lived.” These were obviously not said in a casual manner but with so much aplomb and power. They came from the very depth of his being. Here is something very important to understand. Mohammed Ali lost some fights. Losing something doesn’t mean you are a loser unless you see yourself as one. He was the greatest and he was a champion. That’s how he saw himself and no amount of losing would make him think otherwise. People become and achieve things mainly as a result of their identity or self-image, which is how they see themselves in their minds. Identity or self-image shouldn’t be confused with what one sees in the mirror. That is just a physical representation of you, not really you.
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