#WithChude

You don’t need anyone’s approval to be your authentic self. For you to become who you are, you have to face the criticism you fear the most. Have the courage to be yourself, even if those around you don’t approve.

Mistakes are unavoidable, but mistakes are valuable.’ One of the biggest lessons I learnt from one of my greatest teachers, Warren Buffet.

You must learn to give feedback to people in a way that affirms them and validates them. You must not give feedback in a way that makes them feel less of themselves. The minute your candidness, honesty, truth, makes people feel less than human, you’ve crossed the line from effectiveness to destruction.

Gratitude is important for living a joyful life. To be grateful every day, and keeping a gratitude journal is an important practice for wholesome, joyful life.

It is not enough to be authentic - saying what you want to say, doing what you want to do, just speaking your mind. You have to think about other human beings because we are created to live with other human beings and we must consider how our actions affect those around us.

You can not reduce yourself to what one person says or thinks about you, no matter how dear the person is to you. You are more than their opinion of you.

One day, we will be gone from this earth. When that time comes and we are looking at the life we lived, will we sit down on our death beds and say, 'I lived a good life, I made a good choice, I did the things that I wanted to do'?

To live a joyful life doesn't mean you'll be happy every day. To live a joyful life means that you're able to process all the emotions that come to you in proportion.

The one thing I have learnt on the road to joy is to change my relationship with adversity, to be fascinated by it, to dance with it, to even embrace it.

Instead of reading several books [on self-management] over and over again, read one book [about it] and implement what that book teaches. The only way what you read has an effect on your life is when you practice what it teaches. - Chude Jideonwo