Discover Who You Are

   The “Who am I?” question is the most important question 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 patience and perseverance, you can always find the most answers within yourself or your immediate family. But the “Who am I?” question—the question related to the essence of your existence—has external answers. In other words, you cannot look within yourself to discover who you are. Your 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.

   Many external voices tell 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 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. 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 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. The 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.