Friday Motivation: Be You, Do Not Ever Dim Your Potential.


By Phumzile Mavimbela

I am a great believer in looking to others for encouragement and motivation. At times how people hustle as well as their accomplishments set the tone that is needed to motivate and help us to work harder. However what I am not such a greater believer in, is mimicking another person's life, so much so that you end up losing who are in the process. 

Drawing the line between taking the relevant notes to help you reach the next level and mimicking the next person's life is very important. Often we end up channeling and mimicking those we look up to in life, with great anticipation that we will someday if not now have, what they have. However the danger of this, is that should you fail to reach or live in the standard they have set, you may discourage yourself and end feeling inadequate.

 As such it is important to take time now and again to reflect on how you live your life. Are you doing everything you are doing, because it is what you have always wanted to do ? or are you doing whatever you are doing in life because it is appealing when you look at it through the eyes of the next person?          

Without constant reflection and self-introspection, It becomes very easy to lose yourself in the process of chasing the stars, especially if the foundation is not so strong. At times we reference so much to the lives that appeal to us and that resonate with what we so desperately want, such that we may end up losing an element of who we are through this journey. 

Everybody has their own race to run in this life thing, we may have certain similarities but we carry unique graces, that make us different. If you so desperately want to illuminate another grace through your life then you dim your own potential and deny the world of ever experiencing your uniqueness. There's only one you, and the world needs to feed on your unique greatness. Do not rid yourself of exploring your greatness as well as potential by working so tirelessly to be like someone else. YOU ARE UNIQUE AND SPECIAL, BE YOU!  Enjoy your Friday.                                                                                                                                              

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