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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