Your biggest act of bravery is to give yourself the benefits of the doubt…To Trust yourself, To love yourself, To give yourself a chance, To push yourself, to do all you can to let YOU benefit from your own doubt. – Femi Adediran, June 2021.
Trust people until they prove they are not trustworthy. Love people until they prove they are not loveable. Give people opportunity until they prove they do not merit the opportunity. Give people shelter until they prove they are not to be housed. In all you do, give people the benefits of the doubt until they prove otherwise – Femi Adediran, June 2021.
Every chance we ever got, was because someone gave us the benefits of the doubt, someone “trusted us anyway” even when we cannot substantiate our own “trustworthiness”. Someone took a “wild guess” on us. Be kind to reciprocate this gesture too – Femi Adediran, June 2021.
Do not change who you are because of who they are or what they do. Your biggest influence is in who you are. And your biggest frustration will be to deny who you are, to walk away from your own essence because of who they are – Femi Adediran, June 2021.
- Trust people until they prove they are not trustworthy
- Love people until they prove they are not loveable
- Give people opportunity until they prove they do not merit the opportunity
- Give people shelter until they prove they are not to be housed
- In all you do, give people the benefits of the doubt until they prove otherwise
Do not change who you are because of who they are or what they do. Your biggest influence is in who you are. And your biggest frustration will be to deny who you are, to walk away from your own essence because of who they are.
Change could either be a transforming temptation or a tempting transformation!
One of the biggest mistakes we can ever make is to draw conclusions about others in a haste. The truth is we are never concluded, we are never finished. We all are work in progress, this is one good reason to give people, the benefits of the doubt.
Each time we write off people, we lose the opportunity to be part of an unfolding story that may soon become the “bestseller”.
Every chance we ever got, was because someone gave us the benefits of the doubt, someone “trusted us anyway” even when we cannot substantiate our own “trustworthiness”. Be kind to reciprocate this gesture too.
Giving others the benefits of doubt might be a “wild guess” but more often than not, the answer is always right in the end.
A proof of our kindness is to give others the benefits of doubt.
Your biggest act of bravery is to give yourself the benefits of doubt…To Trust yourself, To love yourself, To give yourself a chance, To push yourself, to do all you can to let YOU benefit from your own doubt.
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