More often than now we don’t want to know ourselves, don’t want to depend on ourselves, and don’t want to live with ourselves. By middle life, most of us are accomplished fugitives from ourselves.
John W Gardner, Self-Renewal
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King Soloman began the book of Proverbs by stating that a Wise person will hear and increase learning, and that a person of understanding will seek wise counsel. At about the same time, but on the other side of the earth, Lao Tzu said that one who knows others is wise, while one who knows oneself is enlighten.
Self-awareness is a continuous, lifelong process of learning and introspection.
Here are some things that you can do to help discover who you are and what you should set about to do:
- 1- Write an autobiography
- 2- Keep a daily journal, including a description of your thoughts and emotions.
- 3- Take time everyday for peaceful meditation.
- 4- Pay attention in the course of everyday to those things that you find rewarding and enjoyable, and those that you do not.
- 5- Everyday critique your own performance against the internal standard that you establish.
- 6- Ask others what they think your ideal job or your calling might be.
- 7- Seek outside help from counselors or testing services.
The question I struggled with for many years goes something like this: How can I keep my life and my work Properly separated? It was the wrong question. The right question… is: How can I keep my life and my work properly integrated?
James A. Autry, Life and Work
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