QUALITY IS NOT AN ACT, IT IS A HABIT.

Nobody can make you inferior without your own consent

YOUR value does not decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth and never let someone else’s o use pinion of you become your reality. When you learn how much you are worth, you will stop giving people discounts! Queen Victoria once said something mind-touching about two former British Prime Ministers. She said of William Gladstone: “When I am with him, I feel I am with one of the most important leaders in the world.” But concerning Benjamin Disraeli she said: “He makes me feel as if I am one of the most important leaders in the world.” Endeavour to surround yourself with people that affirm your worth.

In order to maintain a healthy self-image, there are three things that must be vehemently resisted in life: “Don’t ever look down on yourself”, “Don’t ever allow anyone to look down on you”, and “Don’t ever look down on anyone”. I will be doing some concise write-ups on the issue of having a healthy self-image on these three facts for the next three editions in this column.

We must believe totally that we carry within us a special form of “currency” that cannot be devalued. A man starts living the day he stops living to impress others and until you lived a life that is truly yours, you have not lived. The greatest asset to have in life is a healthy self-image (the image of God). A healthy self-image is seeing yourself as God sees you. The most secured people are those that derive their sense of worth and security from within. It is a fundamental truth of life that no man will value you more than you value yourself.

Let me give you a brief story

I can make you be what you want with my mantra. The Raven became happy and answered quickly. “I want to be like swan.The monk then told the Riven to go and find out if swan was indeed happy with his life.

He said to Swan, how beautiful you are, you are as white as milk, everyone loves you, you must be the happiest bird in the world.

No my friend. I am not happy. There are so many beautiful colours in the world. White is a nothing colour. I think parrot must be the happiest bird in the world.

You must be the happiest bird in the world. The parrot said to the Raven with a sad heart. No my friend, I am not happy, you see people keep parrots in cage. I am always afraid that someone may hold me and lock me in cage. I think peacock is the happiest bird in this world

After people had left,the Raven approached peacock and said,’dear peacock, you are so beautiful. Everyday thousands of people come to see you and look at me. When people see me they immediately shoo me away. I think you must be the happiest bird in the universe. The peacock replied sadly. He said ‘ I always thought that I was the most beautiful and happiest bird on planet but because of my beauty, I am entrapped in this zoo. When people pluck my colourful features to make decorative things it hurts me. The peacock took a deep sigh and said, I am not happy my friend. The Raven was surprised to hear this from the peacock. He said, if you are not happy then whom do you think is the happiest bird in the world? The peacock said I have examine the zoo very carefully and I have realized that you, the Raven are the only birds not kept in the cage. People don’t try to catch you and entrap you in the cage so for the past few days I have been thinking that if I were a Raven I could happily roam everywhere and I would be free. Hearing this, the Riven flew away from there and today for the first time he was feeling happy to be a Raven.