What if you have been searching in the wrong place? We are…
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What if you have been searching in the wrong place?
We are told our whole lives to just be ourselves.
But I think there is a question we rarely stop long enough to ask.
Who is that self?
We can spend years searching for ourselves through relationships, careers, money, possessions, accomplishments, approval, and experiences. We keep gathering things hoping eventually we will find the person we were meant to be.
But your True Self was never out there waiting to be found.
It has always been within you waiting to be practiced.
I believe the True Self is built around four things.
Gratitude. Recognizing that we are owed nothing and learning to see the people, moments, opportunities, and experiences in our lives as gifts.
Compassion. Giving to another person without needing recognition, repayment, or reward.
Empathy. Trying to understand someone else’s journey without judgment and without making their experience about our own.
Forgiveness. Releasing the catabolic energy we continue carrying toward those who hurt us, while also learning to forgive ourselves. Forgiveness does not mean allowing continued access. We can forgive and still have healthy boundaries.
This is not something you discover once. It is something you practice daily.
And maybe that is why so many people struggle to find sustainable happiness. They are trying to gather from the outside what can only be produced from within.
Practice gratitude. Give compassion. Choose empathy. Release through forgiveness.
Stop searching for your True Self.
Start producing it.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#TrueSelf #find #practice #exsistence #produce
Background Photo Credit:
Will Hulbert
We are told our whole lives to just be ourselves.
But I think there is a question we rarely stop long enough to ask.
Who is that self?
We can spend years searching for ourselves through relationships, careers, money, possessions, accomplishments, approval, and experiences. We keep gathering things hoping eventually we will find the person we were meant to be.
But your True Self was never out there waiting to be found.
It has always been within you waiting to be practiced.
I believe the True Self is built around four things.
Gratitude. Recognizing that we are owed nothing and learning to see the people, moments, opportunities, and experiences in our lives as gifts.
Compassion. Giving to another person without needing recognition, repayment, or reward.
Empathy. Trying to understand someone else’s journey without judgment and without making their experience about our own.
Forgiveness. Releasing the catabolic energy we continue carrying toward those who hurt us, while also learning to forgive ourselves. Forgiveness does not mean allowing continued access. We can forgive and still have healthy boundaries.
This is not something you discover once. It is something you practice daily.
And maybe that is why so many people struggle to find sustainable happiness. They are trying to gather from the outside what can only be produced from within.
Practice gratitude. Give compassion. Choose empathy. Release through forgiveness.
Stop searching for your True Self.
Start producing it.
If this message spoke to you or something within it resonated, I invite you to check out my other ideas in my books sold on Amazon. They have already helped thousands worldwide.
– Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#TrueSelf #find #practice #exsistence #produce
Background Photo Credit:
Will Hulbert
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