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The first question you ask is, Who am I? Your answer to this question reveals your self-image, the person you think you are. Because your outer behaviors are always consistent with the way you see or describe yourself on the inside, this answer tells you a lot about yourself.
The sign over the Temple of Apollo at Delphi in Ancient Greece read, “Man, know thyself.” This is the starting point of wisdom.
Socrates said, “The unexamined life is not worth living.” Unless you carve out time regularly to examine your life and make sure that you are clear about your goals, and that they have not changed, you will become reactive-responsive, acting impulsively and often doing what other people want you to do.
Begin this goals analysis by realizing that you are unique, and potentially extraordinary . There has never been, nor ever will be, anyone exactly like you: Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.
You are a special and complex combination of knowledge, experience, education, talents, abilities, interests, emotions, desires, and fears. In addition, from infancy onward, you have had a complex series of experiences that have shaped you into the person you are today.
You have special strengths and abilities and have been born with the capacity to be absolutely excellent at something, and maybe several things. Your great responsibility to yourself, and to others, is to find that special mission that you have been put on this earth to accomplish. You must clarify your vision, your life’s purpose, your heart’s desire.