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Who are you practicing becoming?
I hear people talk all the time about finding themselves, as if somewhere out there is a finished version of them waiting to be discovered.
I see it differently.
I believe we discover who we are by becoming who we were always capable of being.
That is why I often ask people to visualize their True Self. Picture the most grateful version of you. The compassionate version. The empathetic version. The forgiving version who can still have healthy boundaries.
Now ask yourself something important.
What would that person do today?
Because you become yourself through what you practice. Through what you tolerate and what you finally refuse to tolerate. Through the people you surround yourself with. Through the choices you make when nobody is watching.
What you do frequently becomes your frequency.
You are never going to reach some magical point where you are finished. None of us will. Perfection was never the goal.
Progress is.
Awareness allows you to see where you are. Accountability helps you recognize the choices you are making. Responsibility gives you the power to choose differently.
Then you practice.
Every time you choose gratitude over complaint, compassion over judgment, forgiveness over resentment, or healthy boundaries over resentment from saying yes when you mean no, you move closer to your True Self.
Maybe finding yourself is not about searching at all.
Maybe it is about intentionally becoming the person you already know you are capable of being.
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.
β Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
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Our
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#reveal #who #choose #practice #true
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I hear people talk all the time about finding themselves, as if somewhere out there is a finished version of them waiting to be discovered.
I see it differently.
I believe we discover who we are by becoming who we were always capable of being.
That is why I often ask people to visualize their True Self. Picture the most grateful version of you. The compassionate version. The empathetic version. The forgiving version who can still have healthy boundaries.
Now ask yourself something important.
What would that person do today?
Because you become yourself through what you practice. Through what you tolerate and what you finally refuse to tolerate. Through the people you surround yourself with. Through the choices you make when nobody is watching.
What you do frequently becomes your frequency.
You are never going to reach some magical point where you are finished. None of us will. Perfection was never the goal.
Progress is.
Awareness allows you to see where you are. Accountability helps you recognize the choices you are making. Responsibility gives you the power to choose differently.
Then you practice.
Every time you choose gratitude over complaint, compassion over judgment, forgiveness over resentment, or healthy boundaries over resentment from saying yes when you mean no, you move closer to your True Self.
Maybe finding yourself is not about searching at all.
Maybe it is about intentionally becoming the person you already know you are capable of being.
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.
β Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#reveal #who #choose #practice #true
Background Photo Credit:
Sara RuffonI
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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 elseβs 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.
β 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 elseβs 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.
β Coach Mike
EDIT Your GOALS
Every
Day
Internal
Thoughts
Guarantee
Our
Absolute
Life
Situations
#TrueSelf #find #practice #exsistence #produce
Background Photo Credit:
Will Hulbert
