Innocent Mwatsikesimbe is a Zimbabwe-based writer and speaker whose insights celebrate growth and transformation. He highlights that big achievements often start with small steps and stresses the importance of a receptive mind. Innocent's reflections on embracing discomfort as a catalyst encourage continuous self-reinvention and purposeful progress, inspiring others to pursue their dreams steadily with clarity and courage.
"And I know that I'm not perfect,But this path feels perfect."
"Independence and free thought is what makes a person grow. By giving people the freedom and space to figure out who they are and be that, you give them the power to grow."
"What constitutes worth? In short, I would say the valuable attributes you have in relation to how you can productively use them... All attributes have value, but they have worth if they are used productively."
"What you do now will be in the past right after you do it."
"There are billions of people in the world, and each one of them has their own view of reality."
"Great things often come from actions and decisions taken by others, that are deemed wild, stupid or unreasonable at the time, but later prove to be very useful."
"If you have attributes that you could use less productively last year than you can this year (meaning you are more productive), then you have made progress. The opposite equates to regression."
"Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning."
"The joy of success outweighs whatever negativity you might get from failing a couple of times."
"Don't turn a blind eye to those that empathize; that care when no one else does, because it could lead to a very satisfying and meaningful relationship, with profound levels of loyalty."
"There is an equation that I like to use when looking at my life's progress: Current Worth - Past Worth = Progress or Regression."
"You can always learn to do more than you can at any point in your life."
"Accept changes in others, as much as you would want them to accept changes in you."
"Those that know where they are going will not take any path they see in front of them, but they will take the one that goes in the direction they want."
"Of course, competition against others is there, but it should serve to challenge you. To show you how well other people are competing against themselves."
"I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them."
"If you don't mind them and accept that they don't like you, you'll see that you won't return the negativity."
"This just makes me know and understand that there is no one reality that suits all, just one that suits each of us."
"When you read a book and its words agree with what you think, your view of the world or your feelings at the time, you discover that there are people out there that think like you. That takes away a feeling of loneliness."
"You only know how you feel, and you can only guess how others feel."
"It is when life pushes you down that you learn to get up and go higher."
"Just being yourself is the easiest thing you can do. It doesn't take much effort."
"The only thing worse than not getting there is not starting the journey because you are still thinking about how to start it. Just start."
"The struggle hurts now but will be sweet in times of retrospect."
"I believe that if you can't agree with how they think, then it's better to learn from their difference."
"To make mistakes is to live, because no one is born knowing everything."
"A responsible person accepts the results of his choices, attributing blame or praise to himself; that is what makes you happy with the way you turned out."
"Hearts everywhere bear scars of one form of hurt or the other, and it is necessary to keep this in mind when trying to understand why a person is the way he or she is."
"Your perception of your dream changes as you walk toward it."
"Learn from all, but copy none and just be yourself."
"People don't act the way they do because of me. They just act out their own projection of reality, and so do I."