Focus on You, not Others

Osykhena Okpokpa
Thought Thinkers
Published in
3 min readSep 16, 2022
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The biggest secret of failure is trying to please everybody

Being a people pleasing person, sets you on autopilot for failure

If you want the result of the 5 % of the population in the world, you’ve got to think and act like the 5% of the population

You should rather expect to be called names than be surprised that people see you as weird

You have to be different, you’ve got to do something different to get a different result

Develop the inner power to accept the way people see you

You must accept it when people call you crazy?

You cannot go far in life if you are not crazy enough to achieve your goals

It doesn’t matter if people say that you don’t fit in

If you keep doing what people who fit in do, you’ll keep having the same results they have

When you care too much about what people think about you, you put limitations in your paths, you put barricades against your doors, and you shut the gates of your destiny behind you

Everyone has a right to their own opinions. Why allow their opinions come in the way of your success.

Man is a different person to different persons, so, if you really want to please people, you end up tearing yourself apart. And the same people who wanted you to be this, and not to be that, to do this, and not to do that would blame you for losing at the end.

Why? Because at the end of it all, you are the one deciding.

You see, the reason why people discourage you from your goals is not because they hate you. Even your best friend can discourage you from taking a great risk. The reason they do that is because they don’t have the courage to take the risk themselves. So, do you want to follow what people tell you or what you believe yourself?

It doesn’t matter if people say that you are out of touch with reality because of how big your dream is, the advancement you see today in this world was made by those who thought of a visionary future that was beyond their present reality

While they keep gossiping, keep working

While they keep yapping about you, keep working

While they laugh at your failure and say, ‘see now, I said it’, keep working

And when you have reached your goals they’ll realize they’ll have nothing to gossip about because your success is so big that it speaks for itself.

If you create time to worry about other people, it’s going to take all your energy,

you will lose your stamina, you would miss your steps and you would fall out of track.

Build yourself

Study hard on building yourself

Work towards becoming the best version of yourself

Listen to podcasts,

Pay close attention to those things that teach you to focus on you

Do this everyday of every week and you would see the difference it’s making in your life

Learn to sell yourself

Showcase your skills

Believe in yourself

Believe that you’ve got what it takes

Develop the discipline to be consistent at what you do

Get ready to fall, and fall, and fall and fall

And when you’re rising, rise a giant and stand twice as tall

Be success driven

Be obsessed with what you do

Prove people wrong that you are good enough

You have the power to turn your life around when you focus on you

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