User:DesireeBrooke951
We attempt to complete many things in life, to understand many ambitions... Some of us are successful, and some people aren't. There might be a lot of reasons for why someone succeeded where others failed, only one irrefutable reason is that the winner was always aware of his goals.
And this awareness came into being mainly from the good understanding of their self. (I would not say an entire understanding of the self, as the self is not a given quantity. It is extremely dynamic, and keeps constantly evolving depending on the circumstance it finds itself in.) But, yes, winners in life usually have a great understanding of their self.
I am unable to stress enough the significance of self-knowledge to achieve success in everyday life. An essential part of the self-improvement book Free Mind Free Body, is dedicated to help people see and understand themselves. Just think about this: you may have lived all of your life without the complete understanding of what you are, what your real aspirations are, the reason why you think how you think and behave how you do. Unsurprisingly, such half-baked knowledge can result in lots of dissatisfaction and failures in life.
The writer of the book D. R Boisse emphasizes knowing oneself very well and discovering our true aims and aspirations. You might say that you know perfectly what you want, which may be true, too. But it wouldn't hurt, wouldn't it, if we paused as it were to take stock of something that's integral to us: our 'self'.
Are we completely certain what we have been longing for or targeting is not a borrowed goal? Not something that we chose as our goal simply because everyone else was going after it? Or we have been conditioned to think of that goal as an ideal goal we ought to have.
So, how do we start on our journey of self-discovery? There are no easy answers, obviously, but you could always begin with Boisse's book. I did, for just one, and when reading it I paused many times to consider exactly what the author was coaxing me to do: think about some difficult questions.
Boisse guides us just like a true friend around the difficult path of self-discovery. It is difficult since there might be reasons for ourselves we want to deny or hide. We might have lived an entire life in a condition of denial and then not know why we are miserable.
There is no point ignoring what we are. We cannot deny the past, but we can certainly work on the future and see that it's different from and than the past. That is what this excellent motivational book is about. I owe it a lot and hope that you shall benefit from it too.
