Eye2eye Personal Development Asks`WHO Are You?`
January 25th, 2011
If I were a pc geek (no offence to geeks) or even slightly competentwith a keyboard I would have overlaid the above title with The Who`s terrific track `Who Are You?` because it indirectly asks the fundamental question of just WHO are you?
Until you, the reader tells or asks me otherwise I want to start this series of posts with some basics of personal development so that we genuinely begin to see, eye 2 eye as it were, what we both want to achieve.
WHO you are in yourself affects every aspect of how you live your life. It is SO important that I will return to this broad themeseveral times in future. For the moment however I want you to consider some simple but important questions about yourself.
I am assuming that you visited this site because you want to change some aspect of your life or situation but are perhaps unsure where and how to begin. This is quite a common challenge. If you don`t know what you want to change how can you change it?
Achieving genuine, long term change requires not only determination but an understanding of the structure, the framework if you like that you are trying to change. In other words WHO you are, your motives, personality, ambitions and WHY you think the way that you do.
Once you have a better understanding of what makes you tick then, and only then can you make lasting changes.
Some say, and there is an element of truth in it, that we are a product of our environment. If you are born with a silver spoon in your mouth then you will have a life of luxury. If you were brought up in a ghetto then you will always live in poverty. Generalisations like this always have a grain of truth in them but they are NOT set in stone and there are plenty of examples proving the theory wrong.
On the other hand, and I make no excuses for saying this time after time in these posts, I firmly believe that we can all DO and BE more than we are now IF we truly want to. You just have to want it enough to achieve it. First of all though you have to know what `IT` is and IT stems from WHO you are.
Family, education and even nationality dictates and provides the basic building blocks of identity. Unless you have been brainwashed by the system we begin to develop as individuals as we mature and maturity opens the window for change. If change is what you are looking for of course. Bringing about positive, lasting change depends upon four elements;
1) REALISING that you want (or indeed neeed) change.
2) KNOWING where you want that change to take you.
3) Having the DETERMINATION to see the changes through, perhaps in the face of opposition from friends, family or colleagues who don`t want to `lose` the person they were comfortable with. That`s their problem by the way, NOT yours.
4) Having the CONFIDENCE to carry through the changes.
To close this post I want you to start taking action right now. I want you to start repeating the following phrase as often as possible until it embeds itself in your sub-conscious.
“It`s MY life. Only I can change it. I CAN DO THIS”
When you have embedded it in your sub-conscious then you will start to notice a difference in your approach to life.
If you take nothing else away from this post take that and just DO IT.
In my next post I`ll be asking you these curious questions;
Are you are a gold prospector or a farmer and do you know how a mouse eats an elephant?
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