Discover YOU

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You spend so much time searching for different things in life and different people you call friends to help increase your happiness or wipe away your tears. You spend just as much, if not more, time budgeting your finances and/or spending money you do or don’t have. How much time do you actually take to be with the most important person in your life – YOU?

Despite all of the various roles you hold in life (mother, father, daughter, son, housewife, banker, film maker, waitress, actress, actor, teacher, artist, so on and so on), your role as yourself is the most crucial to succeed in! If you succeed in this role, I promise you that you will succeed in all the other roles you play! YOU hold the key to your happiness and only you can make yourself really happy. So, do it: Discover YOU!

Get to know yourself better than you know anybody else and better than anybody knows you. Learn your own likes and dislikes, not those that others have convinced you of as you grew up. This is a hard distinction to make, but trust me, once you do, your life will be forever changed for the better! Well, let me take part of that back… your life will be changed, but the “forever” is only maintained by continued effort on your part! Discovering yourself, the person you dream of and the person you WANT to be is a task of high difficulty; very rewarding and fulfilling but also very difficult. It involves a great deal of honesty and trust with yourself! There is an emotional roller-coaster awaiting, but it only lasts for a little while. Once you have found yourself, the real you beyond the depths of every influence you’ve had impact your life, you must keep in mind who that person is… who you are! You must remember this person always and you must be loyal to yourself!

As with everything I share with you, I speak from brutal experience. Just about two years ago I had to complete this very task. I had to get to know myself which was beyond a challenge. When I would think I had me figured out, something would happen or come up that would make me admit that I was wrong. Talk about being frustrated! Everything around me felt uncertain and I had no idea where my life was headed. What did I do? How did I do it? Below are my own personal guidelines I had to follow and from the day I realized I had no idea who I really was until I found myself happy with me was over a year… and the journey will never end for as life changes, so do I. My own personal guidelines are pure and true for ME… but let me take this moment to encourage you to make your own. Take your time and unravel the extraordinary person YOU are (and be honest with yourself about the enjoyments you have that others may find “odd” or “abnormal”)!

Discovering ME:

~Be alone; no personal intimate relationships seeking love or sexual satisfaction!

~Spend at least one hour in complete silence with ME!

~Engage in activities that make me smile & constantly let go of EVERY bad thought!

~Spend one on one time with my daughter (just the two of us) to get to know the part of me that is a mother

~Make a lot of mistakes and make note of how I learn from them

~BE ME no matter who likes me! Be the ME that I LOVE at the end of every day!

That’s it… time for your own personal guidelines! Enjoy this time with you and GOOD LUCK! The prize is well worth the effort!

Until next time…

*Ryan’s Butterfly*

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