Nankwanga Eunice Kasirye

The Irony of Living for Other People's Expectations By Nankwanga Eunice Kasirye There’s a strange exhaustion that comes from trying to be relevant in places where you were never meant to belong. The kind of weariness that drains not just your body, but your soul — because deep inside, you know you’re fighting a losing battle. But you keep going, don’t you? Hoping, praying, trying harder, just to be seen . To be enough . And yet — what a painful irony — trying to live up to other people’s expectations often makes you invisible to yourself. Let me say this: Remove your expectations from people and you’ll take away their power to hurt you . Because wherever your attention goes… your power follows. And if your attention is on being accepted, being noticed, being liked — you’re handing over your peace to people who didn’t even ask for it. Everyone has a life to live. But those with empty, chaotic lives often find comfort in tampering with others’. They project their negativity...

Be Bold Enough To Walk Away From Anything That Doesn’t Match Your Standards By Nankwanga Eunice Kasirye “If you don’t set a baseline standard for what you will accept in life, you’ll find it’s easy to slip into behaviors and attitudes and a quality of life far below what you deserve.” — Tony Robbins In a world where noise is constant and the pressure to conform is relentless, many people forget the power of having a personal standard. A life-bar . A personal benchmark. A non-negotiable threshold that says, this is what I stand for, and this is how I expect to be treated. If you don’t set your life-bar, the world will set it for you—most often, far below your worth. Setting a life-bar is not arrogance. It’s clarity. It’s not being rigid—it’s being rooted. Your life-bar is directly tied to your self-esteem. When your standards are low or undefined, it signals to yourself and others that you believe you deserve less. The consequences of that mindset silently influence your decisi...