By MJ Schrader
Who are you? Not your name, your birth sign, your parents, your address or your job. Those are just facts and figures, they are not the ideas, thoughts, hopes and dreams that create the unique person that is the one and only YOU.
What makes your heart soar?
What disappoints you?
What gives you energy?
What do you wish you could improve?
Maybe you have your ideas of who you are, or maybe not. Perhaps you have spent your life living the life people “expect” from you. This means your goals and dreams are not yours, but are based on what others want or expect for you or from you.
But your life is just that, your life.
Spend some time alone, without your children, your spouse, your significant other, or your friends. Free yourself from the noise and distractions that fill up life. Turn off the television, the radio, or MP3 player.
Find out who you are.
Make it just you and the thoughts in your head. Then think back through your life. Write down the things that motivate you, the disappointments and the fears. Recall what brings you courage and strength. It does not have to be current, it could be from years ago, it could even be from childhood.
Find out who you are not.
You may be so accustomed to what others expect, that finding the real you is difficult. So what disappoints you, drains your strength, and things that you dislike will help you find what you are not. For some of us, understanding that is very helpful in finding who you are beneath it all.
What is your pattern?
You may find there are patterns. If every time you did research you felt full of energy. Perhaps all the causes you feel passionate about involve children. Maybe you recall helping at a wedding and while everyone else was frantic you felt at peace.
Rinse and Repeat.
This is not a one time exercise, discovering the real you is a lifetime exercise. We grow, we change. And if you do not know who you are, it may take time, days, weeks, maybe years to find the real you.
But as time moves on, your life will change. This is just the progress part of life. As you change you will need to rediscover what it is that makes you.
But what better day to get started than today?
Discover you.
He who knows others is learned. He who knows himself is wise. ~ Lao-tzu Tao te Ching
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