I think it is essential to who you really are. What if you got to the end of your life and found out that you got to the end and had been going in the wrong direction all that time? What if there were things---character traits or accomplishments--you could have or would have done, if only you had known? What joy we would feel if we could look back and then felt the satisfaction of seeing that we had become our true self, our best self! Not to mention the joy of the journey along the way, experiencing that inner peace that comes from knowing that we are on the right path. We all came here with a purpose: things that were important to ourselves and things that would be important to the lives of others that we would contribute to. So what are we going to contribute?
Our contributions come from our gifts, our inner core of gifts. What are our gifts? We each have many gifts, some recognized, some unrecognized, some developed, some not. Our gifts can be used to help us fulfill our missions in life. We are all different and have different gifts and different missions. Generally those differences are good because there are many things that need to be contributed by many people. I believe that those gifts were given by God to be used to develop ourselves and to bless the lives of others. That would be ideal.
The first step should be to identify who you are. After you know who you are, then you can begin to discover what your mission or purpose in life is. Then you can make meaningful choices about what you should do and who you should become. Knowing what you feel passionate about brings joy and lays a foundation for making congruent choices in your life.
After you identify and organize your internal self, then you can begin to create a supportive environment for yourself.
Next time: ways to discover who you are.
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