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You will never be equal to anyone in any sphere of life you want to be. If you look around there is someone who is already living your dreams and if you keep looking someone else is trying to get to where you currently are.

Lead with purpose when you want to accomplish something. Purpose is what all of you feels when you think of doing what you want to. You may not be understood, you may be criticised and even brushed off but that makes that higher sense worth it. Coupled with self drive that will see you get to the greatest of heights.

Along the way as you are reaching towards your goals there will be challenges, hurdles and failures along the way but encountering them is not an indicator that you should give up or quit all together. Part of Mental fitness is the ability to handle life's challenges and you owe it to yourself to learn how to face challenges, hurdles and even failures when they confront you.

When you finally achieve a goal, start a new career path, get to a milestone in life, chances are you might get to a point that you may get comfortable or think that you deserve more. This can quickly turn into demotivation if you let the feelings persist because you would not be satisfied. It is important to remind yourself of the journey that got you to where you are as you aspire to do more.

It is good to have people we admire, look up to and learn from who have gone ahead of us. However it is mentally unfit to keep feeling sorry for yourself for not being where you want to be. Everyone has a different path to get them to where they want to be. You should never spend time feeling sorry for where you are not, instead put in the work and time to get to where you want to be.

When you are going through challenges it is easy to slide into thoughts of frustration, demotivation, despair and hopelessness. It is important to remember that challenges are part of life and those experiences will one day count for something. You will get to one day wear them as your badges of honour. Keep hope Alive.

Never be afraid of failure because the experiences and lessons learnt will be part of your success journey.

Saying that you care or support someone is not enough. It is important to show up when you are called upon to do so by the people you care about. Whether it is at the time of loss, crisis or just even to lend a listening ear.

We always make plans for things but what most people fail to do is make time for rest. There is a need for rest as it rejuvenates your body, spirit and most importantly your mind.

Anger is an overpowering emotion. It consumes you quickly and if not well managed it can lead us to making life altering split second decisions that can be life altering. We should learn to check our Anger and never let it control us.

We lose the beauty of having curiosity and wild dreams as we grow up. Unlike when we were kids and our young minds were free to soak up what the world was when we grow up we find ourselves confined to routines, societal norms of what we think people want to see. I want you to believe in the beauty of your dreams. Believe in yourself because you have to before anyone else can.

I'll lead with a disclaimer in this episode: don't worry yourself to death. Excessive worrying can cause anxiety, depression, cardiovascular diseases, high blood pressure among other ailments that are bad for your mental fitness and mental wellbeing. Worrying has its purpose in our lives. Worries are the buffers we have to help us stop for a minute and think about our future. Worrying gives us a s...

We all have one thing in common and that is emotions. The difference is how self aware and how emotionally intelligent we are when it comes to dealing with our emotions.

Support means being there for someone that you care about; providing them with what they need at a particular time. It could also mean that you allow someone that needs the support the space to figure stuff out.

It is good to have enough space to mentally go through things and process them. It is also important to respect other people's space when they are going through things.

Failures, hurdles, hitches, are part of the journey to success. If you get to internalise and understand this then it will keep your internal fire burning as you move forward and as you keep going.

You may not be where you want to be. Like a journey to a destination there may be anxiety, impatience and just the urge to get there. It takes time to get to where you want to be but eventually you will get there.

People give up because the many times they have tried to accomplish something has not yielded the desired results. I encourage you to not give up just yet and trust your next step. It may be the one that gets you to where you want to be.

There is a certain guilty feeling that we get when we know of a situation in which someone requires help and we are not able to help. However we need to understand and learn that we are not always going to be in a position to help no matter how much we may want to. Set boundaries for yourself. It is good to sometimes just lend a listening ear because that may be all someone needs at their time of...

There is power in knowing who you are. Being yourself and not trying to be a version of what you perceive people want to see is mentally healthy.

Starting something or even thinking about it can cause feelings of anxiety, worry, fear among others that would make you not even take that first step. You have more to offer than you can imagine. It starts with believing in yourself.

Whether it is the loss of someone dear to you, a job, or a relationship; there is power in finding meaning while dealing with a loss. If you have not gone through it, you will or you are dealing with it. The experience, though shocking builds our Mental fitness as you go through it.

We all have dreams, goals and aspirations. It is not enough to just dream of you achieving, you need to plan, strategize and put in the work.

We often answer Yes to the question: Are you okay? Even though we are not at times. We need to learn and unlearn the right response to the question for the sake of our Mental Fitness and Wellness.

Mental fitness is the ability to handle life's challenges. It is built over a period of time and no one really perfects it. In this episode, I invite you to join me as we work towards our mental wellness and mental fitness journeys.