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A few years ago, one of my teachers gave us a Holiday pep talk before we left class and put forth a few pieces of information that I never forgot.
One piece however, truly stuck out to me.
He said that we all must accept who we are if we are going to move forward with our lives.
What did he mean?
He meant that if you can accept the way you are now, you can give yourself access to changing who you want to be.
To take it a few steps further, it means that you truly have to look into all areas of your life and understand why they are how they are - relationships, money, job, body etc.
The other important part is to see them as they are and not how you think they should have been.
Why is it so important to do this?
Because the honesty is the thing in which you can build the foundation of your new life upon.
Going through this process of self reflection allows you to create a new life and ditch the old one.
When you can stop avoiding the past and accept the mistakes you have made, you free yourself from something that could be holding you back for the rest of your life.
So, auditing your life...what does that actually mean in terms of implementation?
My favorite way of doing this is getting on a huge chalkboard and drawing the whole thing out in terms of, "Where am I now?"
When you go through this process it really gives you great visual experience of what's going on in your life and how you need to reorganize everything.
Then, you have to ask yourself, "Where do I want to be?"
And lastly, you have to envision as far as you can down the line and start working a plan backwards from there.
If you can do this step by step, you have battle plans that will help you move into the future with a specific plan.
This will give you a milestone based path instead of going into something completely blind. Then, out of those big milestones, write little lists underneath of, "What do I know now & what do I need to know?"
The what you need to know part of the list should be a hell of a lot longer and more dense than the "what you know" part of the list. Truth is, you only have started to scratch the surface in a world full of knowledge.
So take some time to understand the landscape and begin to invest in yourself so you can start to move forward in this life.
And this will help you achieve your greatest vision.
All of this is pure magic.
One piece however, truly stuck out to me.
He said that we all must accept who we are if we are going to move forward with our lives.
What did he mean?
He meant that if you can accept the way you are now, you can give yourself access to changing who you want to be.
To take it a few steps further, it means that you truly have to look into all areas of your life and understand why they are how they are - relationships, money, job, body etc.
The other important part is to see them as they are and not how you think they should have been.
Why is it so important to do this?
Because the honesty is the thing in which you can build the foundation of your new life upon.
Going through this process of self reflection allows you to create a new life and ditch the old one.
When you can stop avoiding the past and accept the mistakes you have made, you free yourself from something that could be holding you back for the rest of your life.
So, auditing your life...what does that actually mean in terms of implementation?
My favorite way of doing this is getting on a huge chalkboard and drawing the whole thing out in terms of, "Where am I now?"
When you go through this process it really gives you great visual experience of what's going on in your life and how you need to reorganize everything.
Then, you have to ask yourself, "Where do I want to be?"
And lastly, you have to envision as far as you can down the line and start working a plan backwards from there.
If you can do this step by step, you have battle plans that will help you move into the future with a specific plan.
This will give you a milestone based path instead of going into something completely blind. Then, out of those big milestones, write little lists underneath of, "What do I know now & what do I need to know?"
The what you need to know part of the list should be a hell of a lot longer and more dense than the "what you know" part of the list. Truth is, you only have started to scratch the surface in a world full of knowledge.
So take some time to understand the landscape and begin to invest in yourself so you can start to move forward in this life.
And this will help you achieve your greatest vision.
All of this is pure magic.
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