You know the popular saying that pride comes before you fall, but have you stopped and paused to think about how pride also may might quietly hold you back from rising to the top?
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Let’s picture this: you wear flashy clothes, you drive a very expensive car, and you are using the latest iPhone. Then you see your landlord, and your landlord is looking more poorer than you. You are looking richer than someone who could open doors for you. On the surface, it might be like you’re winning, but deep down, are you really winning?
Pride is just a trap sometimes. It is better that you need to look successful in order to attract those who are successful, so you spend your whole hard-earned money on tinder screen that you have already made it.
You want to wear fancy clothes, you want to drive Lazio’s car, you’re buying gadgets that depreciate in value over time and are not useful to you. But here is the two goods you don’t know: those things who don’t don’t don’t lift you up, they will keep weighing you down. Do start as load on your shoulder that will make you too heavy to rise.
Humility, on the other hand, is like that strong pair of wind. This community is not about thinking less of yourself; it’s about thinking yourself too lightly enough so that you can have this strength to soar higher. Being humble doesn’t mean you should act weak or foolish. You may see the greatest wisdom ever if using properly is going to say, “I don’t have anything, what I’m just focusing on is building my future, not my image.”
So let’s come to think about it. Those times you choose to spend money on something that was in time lose value, you’re just letting pride swallow your potential. Imagine if you, if it’s like just learning a new skill, starting that side of you, or just saving for that big opportunity. That is how you are known to rise. That is how you should turn dreams into reality.
I’m not saying that you should start wearing rags or leaving like your book or stop living your best life. But sometimes treat yourself, sometimes treat yourself where you deserve it, but don’t let pride push you too much that you empty your accounts just to look rich.
Your worth is not in your wardrobe, rather it is in your car or your expensive gadgets. Your worth is majorly in your character, that your hustle, that vision you place.
So I’m challenging you today: it’s time to solidify it before it follows you and brings you down. Choose humility over pride. Over time, in investing things that grow your mind, just kills that healthy relationship just bright enough to rise above.
You don’t need to impress anyone. What you do when you live a life of humility, you find yourself become lighter. You never stick yourself so highly important of yourself and closer to the life you are meant to live. So you have to keep it this way. Be humble and watch how you get to the top easily.