Getting to Know Me
I’m currently listening to The Greatness Mindset: Unlock the Power of Your Mind and Live Your Best Life Today by Lewis Howes. I get the majority of my listens while I walk Pepper. I don’t know how I came across this book- I don’t remember what exactly I was looking for when I scrolled over this self-help book. Nevertheless, it started out intriguing about a man who (if I remember correctly) got his whole body blown up and now he does speeches around the world helping others to not give up. That’s a horrible synopsis of the first chapter, but I've slept multiple times since the first chapter. I’m in the middle of the 10th and he is speaking about Finding Your Identity. This chapter is resonating with me so much right now because i’m in such an interesting spot right now in life. There’s a lot of things that I want and am trying to achieve that I am just not getting. Im feeling like a failure and from what i’m hearing and what is being said in this chapter, I think it has a lot to do with not knowing my identity. I plan to elaborate much more on feeling like a failure and not reaching certain goals, but, baby steps. Im also literally paying for my webpage. I have to get active lol
So, very abruptly, that brings me to the reason I am starting these blog posts. This will my Self-Help arc. At this moment of writing, I might not publish them, but maybe I will, however, I want to simultaneously solve 2 problems at once. The first being: me working on myself and figuring out who I am right now at 34. The second: writing everyday. I call myself a writer and I the last time I wrote something was June. Maybe May.
I think doing this will further my understanding of who I am as I get my ideas and thoughts out instead of doing my normal over thinking. In the book, the author mentions writing a manifesto…
Side note: I’ve realized with this book that in order to really work on yourself you need to write some of the questions and answers down so you can reflect and learn. Hard to do outside with a 70lb Poodle pulling me. So I need to run some of these chapters back and really take the time out to list some of the things I want to work on.
So this is day 1. I want to try and hold myself accountable and do this every week day until it becomes so natural I don’t even think about it. I want to simply document everything and post it so I can look back at the manifesto and see how i’ve progressed and in the end, find my identity and know myself and get progress with my writing. If I want to become a master at my craft, I need to do it everyday.
My action items are below:
Write a manefesto
Write a letter to yourself from the Future - “thank your younger self …”
Reprogram your negative Thoughts
A quote from the book: “I was trying to find the person who could save me. Then I looked in the mirror.”
