Appreciate YOUR VALUE and YOUR VALUE will appreciate

Our value as human beings does not emanate from the grades we attain in school, the friends we have around us, the positions we attain in society nor the size of our bank account. It is completely wrong for anybody to devalue themselves simply because they have not achieved much n terms of material things. The richest person in the world is not more valuable than the poorest person. The president of a country is not more human than other citizens. We are all humans and each of us share the same intrinsic value as other humans. When you see yourself in terms of who you are rather than what you do, you can appreciate yourself better. After all, is it not because of who you are that you are able to do what you do? Don’t look down on yourself because of what you lack or what you are yet achieve or accomplish. As a person, you are worth more than everything that exists in the world.

We are human beings, not doings. Who we are shapes what we do. Our worth transcends our works. Terry Mantis

Life is not measured by how much you own. People undervalue what they got because they COMPARE themselves with anyone and everyone. You have to know that your journey is different and how you get to yours goals (even when the goal might look like others) is very different. So quit comparing yourself with just about anyone or anything. Your confidence in life should not be based on your achievements, acquisitions and awards. It should be based on your humanness. Humanity derives value from God who created YOU in His own image. The same God who made YOU also created everything else that exists in the universe but he took out time to make you just like HIM. If God made both humans and everything else, then He is definitely greater than all. But then, He imparted His image and likeness into human beings. The other creations of God do not have the benefit of this impartation. This impartation automatically bestows greater value upon every human being above everything else that exists in the world.

The notion of VALUE is hinged on two main factors. Intrinsic and Extrinsic Value. It’s not surprising that our world today looks out for extrinsic value more than intrinsic value. It’s a perpetual fact of life that extrinsic value is sought after more often than intrinsic value because society, the media and celebrities pay so much respect to material acquisitions than anything else. So young minds grow up using that as a measure of their worth. Intrinsic value is based on principles and it begins in YOUR MIND. Your mind has to approve of your worth irrespective of who or where you are in LIFE. Your mind is your go to place to find whats most valuable. You appreciate your value by changing your mindset towards the things around you (what you think about yourself and the situation around you). Intrinsic value is about what you say you are, the name you answer to, the things your mind approves of while extrinsic value is based on what the crowd says about YOU or YOUR situation. Most people seek validation of their existence by others because they are too timid to seek to appreciate whats within.  Extrinsic validation is why people stay in the wrong relationship and expect to be validated in that. You are not the stock market that derives it value from what a multitude of investors say is valuable about your stock. All you need to appreciate you is YOU because it all starts in your mind. When you feel tempted to look down on yourself, remember your intrinsic value. See who you are and deploy yourself accordingly.

 

All YOU are or will ever be begins with YOUR thought process. Your mind is your most powerful weapon.

Here are some Beautiful Thoughts to help you appreciate your VALUE. 

• Heavy rains remind us of challenges in life. Never ask for a lighter rain. Just pray for a better umbrella. That is attitude.

• Appreciate your VALUE and your VALUE will appreciate.

• When flood comes, fish eat ants & when flood recedes, ants eat fish. Only time matters. Just hold on, God gives opportunity to everyone!

• Life is not about finding the right person, but creating the right relationship, it’s not how we care in the beginning, but how much we care till the very end.

• Some people always throw stones in your path. It depends on you what you make with them. Wall or Bridge? Remember you are the architect of your life with God on your side.

• Search a beautiful heart, but don’t search a beautiful face’. Coz beautiful things are not always good, but good things are always beautiful.

• It’s not important to hold all the good cards in life. But it`s important how well you play with the cards which you hold.

• Often when we lose all hope & think this is the end, God smiles from above and says, `relax dear its just a bend. Not the end. Have Faith and understand that the challenges increases your VALUE. Have a successful life.

• One of the basic differences between God and human is, God gives, gives and forgives. But human gets, gets, gets and forgets. Be forever thankful/grateful in life….. In all things GIVE THANKS. That appreciates your VALUE in the eye of GOD.

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SHOW ME YOUR RELATIONSHIP AND I WILL TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE

There is an avid need for every person in this world to relate with the things, people or persons around them and so does everyone want to identify with something as well as some one. The question is:

Show me your relationship

“Who do you relate and Identify with”

“How mature are you to understand the positioning of your relationship”.

We are all social animals and that’s just the way it is. We’ve been wired that way from the beginning of time. We are to have relationships and support them like wise. Right from the beginning of creation, Gods sole reason for “coming out of nowhere, into somewhere to create everywhere” was so that He can have and build a relationship of His own with His own creation outside His regular environment. His quest was not solely creative, but mainly relational. In lieu of the fact that man was created in His image, we take up that likely characteristic of seeking intimate as well as plutonic relational levels whereby we can bond and unwind in the arms or minds of others by sharing our knowledge, experiences as well disappointments with the people around.

“When you need to relate, you most likely have to create”.

You have to create and make every relationship what you wish of it because “you won’t be able to relate properly with what you can’t or didn’t create and you won’t create what you can’t or won’t relate with”. The essence of Gods creative stance was to relate with the world and you are a product of Gods quest to relate. God respects your humanity thereby making it possible to relate with your humanity to bring your humanity up to His divinity. “You can never relate with what you do not respect” because it takes respect to relate and build a relation of any kind on any level. You must understand first that God Himself paid much respect to our humanity in as much as to wait till every other creature was made before He consulted the Trinity in heaven saying “let us make man”. God created every other thing himself (with the help of the Holy Spirit that was the performer of the spoken word) but took out time to readily craft man into His image based on the Trinity’s decision to create man who was just like them. This boils down to the fact that you only create what you respect to relate with it.

It takes more than one person to make a relationship work. Relationships are greatly influenced and affected by the people in it as well as the folks around it. It’s fundamental to note that a relationship does take on a life of its own and begins to relate with the environment around it, speaking audibly for itself and making a resounding exposure of how its fairing. The communication methods in any relationship show forth in every aspect of the relationships lifespan the good, the bad or the ugliness within the relationship. The most important key to keeping your relationship relevant and ALIVE is communication. Communication is the lifeline of any relationship which if cut off automatically kills the relationship no matter how long it took to build such a relationship.

“You are a product of the relationships you keep”

Your relationship is permanently engraved by your environment and your environment is permanently predisposed by your mindset. If you are a product of your mind and environment then you are automatically a product of the relationships you keep, maintain, sustain and have a passion or desire for. Your relational level in life predominantly influences your altitude in life because it determines your attitude to life. The folks you relate with drive your passion, fuel you energy based on synergy and influence you mindset as well as drive your conscience. Ultimately, your relationships defines who you are, tells where you are and the vision you carry even before you say so. It states how you are even before you react in like manner. They say “show me your friends and I’ll tell you who you are” same goes for your relationships in life.

There are two basic types of relationships; Parasitic and Symbiotic (synergy/mutual) relationships. Parasites feed off the nutrients of the host without offering anything of value in return. People get into relationships where they give and give all that they have to offer but never get anything of value in return. Overtime the parasite grows leaving the host to die and they move on to someone else.

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Complimenting the giver

The relationship you seek should never be such that you give so much but never get anything in return and at the end of the day your left high and dry to figure out what happened to your life. You deserve a relationship that is of mutual understanding, communication, love, attraction and fidelity. Symbiotic relationships in all sphere of life fosters growth and development both individually and collectively because everyone at end of th day is a winner (win-win relationship). Always seek to maintain and sustain a win-win relationship because that keeps you ALIVE.

You can never go farther or grow beyond the relationships your chose to support. Your relationship is ultimately a function of your mind. They affect how you think and what you think about which ultimately defines your altitude in life. IN every phase of your life you should always find people who propel your growth and not depress it. If you relate with greatness you will one day be great and if you relates with mediocrity the sad news is that you are already mediocre.

“Staying ALIVE requires maintaining the right mutual relationship that drives your passion, fuels you energy based on synergy and influences you mindset as well as drive your conscience.” Samuel Davids

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