Speak: Find Your Voice, Trust Your Gut, and Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
by Tunde Oyeneyin
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Whatever it is that makes you want to hide, you have two choices—learn to love it or change it.
So much of the pain I’ve experienced in my life has been tied to love. To love is to accept pain, to take it in, to grow from it, and to love again.
To build endurance, you have to endure.
Embracing uncertainty empowers you to take risks. The beauty of uncertainty, I’ve found, is infinite possibility.
The beauty of uncertainty is infinite possibility.
A goal is a wish, but a standard holds you accountable.
Tunde, life comes in seasons,” she told me. “Everything shifts and changes. I try to get the most out of the season that I’m in, because I know I’ll never get it back.
If you want to change things, you have to change things.
Your mind is your strongest muscle. It holds the key to your belief about the way you feel and the way you see yourself.
This is a season to acknowledge your value, your uniqueness. This is a season to see yourself fully for who you are. Be your own inspiration and then spark the light for others. Find your voice, trust your gut, and speak because we are all listening.
The purpose of life is to discover your gift; the work of life is to develop it; and the meaning of life is to give your gift away.
It didn’t occur to me that I could learn on the job, that everyone has to start somewhere, and that I could be hired because of my potential, not because of my experience.
Knowing what’s next keeps you knowing only what you know. Embracing uncertainty empowers you to take risks. The beauty of uncertainty, I’ve found, is infinite possibility.
It's always easier once you get to the destination to forget about the hills and winding roads you had to take to get there, but I knew that there was a lot of doubt and desire and hope all mixed together on the way.
When you leave a relationship at the right time, you can still cherish the good parts, but when you let it go on for too long, all that you're left with are the messy parts. It was difficult to remember the joy that we once had.
When I look back at the biggest shifts in my life, doubt was always there. Think about the times when there was a big shift in your life. I’m going to guess you felt the same. Uncertainty, I’ve come to learn, has to exist to give you room to shift. To make room for opportunity to walk in the door.
When we feel insecure, why do we allow ourselves to forget our expertise? You know what you know, and you can carry those skills no matter where you go, into uncomfortable terrain. Limits are removed, results are open, and failure ceases to exist.
He wasn’t gaining anything because of my loyalty, but I was losing something.
I learned how to be the gatekeeper of my own peace, my own energy.
Once you put yourself on the sale rack, it’s hard to go back to full price.
Our purpose comes naturally to us. It’s the thing we feel we’re meant to do.
The pain of saying nothing was worse than the pain of saying the wrong thing.
When history reveals itself, we will either say we watched the world as it was being created, or we had a hand in its creation.
The message we all get: what is right is what other people have, and what is wrong is what we are born with.
You are what you think you are, so you have to be mindful of what you think.
We’d known for days that this was the end, but it was still difficult to accept that there as no miracle coming in the final hour.
I can picture it, easily, but I would have liked to see it.
Life is short and everything is temporary.
My mind was my most powerful asset and my strongest muscle.
The best way to change was to make changes.
