Become who you are by learning who you are

PINDAR – Greek Poet

Pindar wrote this more than 2600 years ago yet it is applicable, more so now than ever before. Sadly, some people never become who they are because they don’t believe in themselves. They will happily believe everyone else and doubt their own stirrings and desires.

We look at others who we label “successful” as having been born into that success – a product of being in the ‘right family’ with the ‘right connections’. We look at the talents that seem natural, in athletes, business owners and the stars of the entertainment industry and think that we could never be like any of them because we are talent-less. The parts of these superstar lives that we see lead us to believe that this kind of success is elusive.

Yet we ignore our brain – the latent power that each and everyone of us has been blessed with. Yes it is underused in many cases, but it is as Robert Greene describes, the work of six million years of development and was designed to lead us to self-mastery!

It is time to Make you Great again and that starts with learning to trust you!

Take of your mask, and stop conforming to the direction of other people who know less about you than you do.

One way to start tapping into this magnificent power is to take a blank sheet of paper. At the top, write a goal that is significant to you. Under that, write out a list off ideas about how you can meet that goal.

I got this idea from Earl Nightingale in “Lead the Field”.

He said to do this for one hour a day, five days a week, every week. That would be 260 hours a year thinking about how to do what we want to do. The objective of the exercise is to write twenty possible activities that can fill the day helping us meet our goals. He said to write even the absurd ones.

Besides the obvious benefit of brainstorming and discovering some ideas that we may not have thought about otherwise, this practice embeds our goal into our subconscious mind and gradually this makes room for us to hear the voice and feel the force within us that is propelling us to become what we were fated to become.

This practice is not an easy one which is why most of us lean towards getting information and seeking advice from people, many of whom, aren’t qualified to give it.

I know because guess who is guilty of this?

However, as I enter my sixtieth year I realize that I need to take everything I’ve learnt and add my special sauce. I need to develop my own proprietary way of applying my expertise, and you should too!

The only way to do that is to make the exercise described above, a habit. You will begin to gain clarity and see how everything you do in your expertise-based business fits together. The world needs you. Bring your own style and individuality into play and use it to your advantage!

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