BY NYASHADZAISHE RUSHWAYA
This year is an election year for Zimbabwe, but if you are not going to do anything that brings money in your pockets you will never see the difference.
Even if Zimbabwe will continue with the current President and you have nothing that you are doing to change your life, that change will not make a difference in your life.
Some of us managed to live during president R.G Mugabe’s time and now we are living in President Mnangagwa’s time all these two came with different opportunities and to those who used the opportunities they changed their lives.
Change is a process, not an event. I try to focus on the process and make some progress every single day. The learning never stops. It can’t. The world is changing too fast. Whenever I get to the edge of my growth, I know it’s because I’ve relaxed on my commitment to learning.
Oftentimes the reason a business stops growing is because the leadership stops growing.
Increasingly, the danger isn’t just about experiencing the edge. The real danger is becoming irrelevant or easily replaced.
Some of the most important learning and personal growth I’ve experienced in my lifetime occurred in the last 12 months during my edge period. When I committed to doing “inner work,” I learned how important self-awareness, self-love, self-compassion and self-care are to success in business and fulfilment in life and I learnt that everything that we search for is within us. Happiness is not about what the world gives you. Happiness is what you think about what the world gives you.
Everything that we are searching for is within us. But as a culture, we constantly look outside of ourselves for answers. We look for so many things outside of ourselves, validation, satisfaction, permission, love. We base our happiness on factors we cannot control and our lives get filled with unmet expectations.
Pain or pleasure, joy or misery, agony or ecstasy, happens only inside you, the human error that we always commit is that we always try to extract joy from outside.
You may use outside influence as stimulus or triggers but the real thing always comes from within be it the money, happiness, fun, satisfaction companionship.
We can’t always control our circumstances, but all of the additional suffering we’re so good at laying blame on is optional. This powerful perspective is available to each of us. It just requires practice.
In 2 Peter 1 vs. 3 ‘’by his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvellous glory and excellence’’
Everything we need to live the life we deserve and desire exists inside us. It was put there for us. You can reclaim what you were made for at any time. The best place to start is on the inside with “yourself first.”
The real secret to transforming your life is to wake up and become conscious of the patterns that are currently unconscious. Thoughts shape our emotions and our emotions shape the quality of our lives.
Self-concept is your relationship with yourself. It shapes how you see and experience the world, fuels your belief system and defines your ability to connect with others.
When you elevate your self-concept, and embrace self-awareness, self-compassion, and self-love, you can elevate the quality of your life. Searching outside of yourself for everything that’s already within you allows you avoid responsibility.
Realize that everything you are searching of is already within you then you will have agency over your life in a way that you never had before
