The
“Who am I?” question is the most important question that you can ask, because
the answer to that question describes the soil—your identity (the real
YOU)—that must be prepared for any planting that will be done in your life.
When it comes to the values you hold and the behaviors you practice, with some
patience and perseverance, you can always find most answers within yourself or
within your immediate family. But the “Who am I?” question—the question related
to the very essence of your existence—has answers that are external to you. In
other words, you cannot look within yourself to discover who you are. Your own
internal explorations will yield only your values at best, but will not
disclose the compass by which you travel in life. Your notion of your own
identity is learned from others outside yourself.
There are many external voices telling you
who you are: your family, the schools you attended, your religious institutions
and advertising and commercial messages, to name just a few of the myriad
voices that scream every day into your ears that you are what they say you are.
So the real challenge is finding the external voice that tells you the whole
truth, the objective, unembellished, certain, there’s nothing-in-it-for-the-truth-teller
truth. In order to be the voice of truth, this voice must speak based on
irrefutable laws of nature—laws which have the same weight as the laws of
gravity, physics and mathematics.
Such a voice is found in the Law of Attraction. What you focus your
mind, your feelings, emotions, and actions on is what is drawn to and attracted
to you by you. So, one way to find out who you are is to consider carefully and
study the people, places and things that come into your life. The old wisdom proverb
says, “As a woman thinks, so is she.” In other words, at this very moment of
your life, you are what you have thought, felt and behaved yourself to be. However,
the great thing about life is that nothing stays the same.
The Law
of Change teaches you that you cannot and will not stay where you are.
Change will impact you and force you into being and doing more than you are being
and doing right now. Change will use such events as death or disaster, injury
or accident, loss of income or an increase in your family’s budget to make you
change. Whether you like it or not, you are a person who is undergoing the
process of change!
Be proactive and change yourself! In fact,
you’re already in the change process—you’re looking at starting a business of
your own. That’s certainly a change from what you were thinking at an earlier
stage of your life. The fact that you are changing means that you are a person
who is ever changing, ever evolving, and ever moving toward a definite goal—even
if that goal is not very clear to you yet.
The Law
of the Farmer teaches that you cannot begin to plant any seeds until you
have prepared the soil to receive them. The Law
of the Farmer also teaches that what you plant today in a field will not
grow today, nor will what you harvest from that field in the future bear any
resemblance to what you planted today. Finally, the Law of the Farmer teaches that crops take a lot of time to grow.
Accordingly, you have to develop the patience to wait for whatever you have
planted to grow in its own time—it can’t be rushed. It must grow at its own
pace.
In the same way, you must learn to be
patient with yourself as you grow the business you intend to own—you will not
conquer your bad habits or develop an Entrepreneurial
Mindset overnight. But you must start by planting seeds in the ground of your
mind—seeds that will yield a harvest that is the development of your character.
I can help you discover who you are by
raising your awareness and holding you accountable for keeping the promises you
make to yourself to know yourself so you can grow yourself. Contact me at:
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