Be Yourself!

Has anyone ever called you by someone else’s name, and you turned around to see who it was? How did you feel when this happened? Did you know the person they called? And did you for a moment feel just like you were walking the skin of that person when you turned around?

Quote: When you know who you are, it’s hard to turn your head when people call you someone else.

I heard a songwriter once sing a song called “(Be Yourself)” by Frank Ocean. Here are some of the lyrics.

Many college students have gone to college
And gotten hooked on drugs, marijuana, and alcohol
Listen, stop trying to be somebody else
Don’t try to be someone else

Be yourself and know that that’s good enough
Don’t try to be someone else
Don’t try to be like someone else
Don’t try to act like someone else, be yourself
Be secure with yourself
Rely and trust upon your own decisions
On your own beliefs

You understand the things that I’ve taught you
Not to drink alcohol, not to use drugs
Don’t use that cocaine or marijuana
Because that stuff is highly addictive

When people become weed-heads
They become sluggish, lazy, stupid and unconcerned
Sluggish, lazy, stupid and unconcerned
That’s all marijuana does to you, okay?
This is mom

Unless you’re taking it under doctor’s, um, control
Then it’s regulated
Do not smoke marijuana, do not consume alcohol
Do not get in the car with someone who is inebriated
This is mom, call me, bye

Habits

One of the most difficult habits to break. Is the habit of disuniting yourself from being a hostage of bad habits you love most that doesn’t add value to your life.

Change

All we need is within our reach to make drastic changes in our lives by developing habits of transformation.

Change is not something that just happens. You have to happen! I mean it. You have to be aware that you need a makeover and begin to find ways to be relentless.

When you truly change your mind. You will become someone else and a better version of yourself once you are fed up with the results you are getting that don’t represent the true you.

Curious questions for wise people:

How can you change yourself?

• There are practical changes you can make once you get to know yourself emotionally, physically, intellectually, and spiritually by applying both education and prayer.

Once you get to know yourself, you will get to understand how much you need to change and become aware of areas in your life that you have the power to change. The areas you can’t change. Talk to people who are reliable, trustworthy, and a support team that will help you overcome overwhelming things, so you can become the best version of yourself.

I remember a story about a middle-aged man who played a variety of instruments and loved singing. But after being guilty of having bad habits like smoking and drinking, and not taking care of his voice. He ultimately ended up with lung cancer. Since he didn’t want that to happen to his son, who shared some of the same talents. He started changing his life habits.

Self-Motivation

He told me that one of the most difficult struggles in life was to make up his mind so he could overcome a lifestyle of unworthy habits and to win his fight with lung cancer. I didn’t know this is what it took for him to be the best version of himself, so he could achieve personal fulfillment.

Awareness

He said that when he discovered he had lung cancer, this is when the rubber hit the road. He knew at this point in his life that no matter how others saw him, he needed to come clean and be honest with himself.

For once in his life, he began to see the truth about himself. All along, he was living a lie. At that time, he would rather lie to himself, just to please his peers. Without having a clue that his body was dying due to a severe illness that could take his life.

He would always say. Only if I had listened to my parents, who didn’t drink or smoke. My life would be different.

Once he had overcome cancer, he replaced his habits with a lifestyle of purpose and meaning. Now he could travel and tell others how he needed to be free from inward, debilitating habits that held him hostage.

He is a new person who has learned how to push his mind into a space where he respects himself, and he does everything in moderation. He also made his health a priority. He is more sensitive to what his life needs most. Which is what he calls self-love and not self-denial.

His eyes are open about who he is and what he loves about living his life being a healthy person with open eyes about the consequences of bad habits he is not willing to pay.

 Testimony

The more he made up his mind that he deserved to be the best version of himself. He began to see the change as he expressed an inward self-love, which he needed all along.

There are emotional wounds you need to overcome, and there are emotional wounds that you deserve to overcome.

Once you become relentless, the only person who can stop you is yourself. Since you are an overcomer, I believe you can overcome anything.

There are new opportunities that await you and unexplainable healings that you would not experience if you continue to allow those old habits, fears, and unbelief hold you back. Just take one step of faith forward and follow God and wise people from there.