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Student // Writer // Poet // Personal development enthusiast. @ Adekunle Ajasin University
Lagos, Nigeria
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INTROSPECTION: The World is a Reflection of Yourself.
<p>For the past few months, I have been doing something many people rarely do.</p><p><br/></p><p>I have been studying myself.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not other people's lives. Not other people's achievements. Not other people's mistakes.</p><p>My own life</p><p><br/></p><p>I have been asking myself difficult questions:</p><p><br/></p><p>What are my strengths?</p><p><br/></p><p>What are my weaknesses?</p><p>What patterns keep showing up in my life?</p><p><br/></p><p>What has my past taught me?</p><p><br/></p><p>What kind of person do I need to become to achieve the future I desire?</p><p><br/></p><p>These questions have not always been comfortable, but they have been necessary.</p><p>And one conclusion keeps coming back to me:</p><p><br/></p><p>I NEED TO FOCUS MORE ON MYSELF.</p><p><br/></p><p>Not in a selfish way.</p><p><br/></p><p>But in a growth-oriented way.</p><p><br/></p><p>Sometimes we spend so much time watching others that we neglect the person we are responsible for becoming.</p><p>We <a class="tc-blue" href="https://compare.We" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">compare.We </a> compete.</p><p>We <a class="tc-blue" href="https://observe.We" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">observe.We </a> criticize.</p><p><br/></p><p>Yet the greatest project we will ever work on is ourselves.</p><p><br/></p><p>The truth is that my future will not change because I understand everyone else.</p><p>The truth is that my future will not change because I understand everyone else.</p><p><br/></p><p>My future will change when I understand myself.</p><p>When I identify my strengths and maximize them.</p><p>When I acknowledge my weaknesses and improve them.</p><p>When I become intentional about my growth.</p><p>The more I reflect, the more I realize that self-awareness is not a luxury; it is a necessity.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because you cannot improve what you refuse to examine.</p><p><br/></p><p>So in this season, I am choosing to focus on becoming better than I was yesterday.</p><p>Less distraction,More reflection, Less comparison</p><p>More growth, Less noise, More purpose.</p><p><br/></p><p>Because before I can build anything great, I must first build myself.</p>
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