To know yourself is your first priority.
How can you set goals, go about life, and have relationships if you don't know who you are or what you want? You really can't.
To not know yourself leads to confusion and wasting much time in hit and miss situations.
We tend to underestimate the importance of knowing ourselves. Many of us go through each day reacting to events and just getting by rather than making conscious choices based on who we are and what we want.
When we don't know where we are headed it's hard to set goals, get motivated and determine the best course of action. Before we can do any of these things we must establish who we are.
To know yourself:
Be aware of your strengths, weaknesses, likes and dislikes
Observe and be aware of your moods, reactions and responses to what is happening around you
Become aware of how these moods and emotions affect your state of mind
Examine how you interact with others
Observe how your environment affects you
Knowing and understanding yourself better, in turn, leads to better decisionmaking, setting and reaching appropriate goals and altogether living more productively.
There are many interesting personality tests and evaluations for self-discovery that can help you become more in tune to yourself and are fun to do.
Two powerful tools I found exceptionally helpful are the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and The Enneagram.
About Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
"Perception involves all the ways of becoming aware of things, people, happenings, or ideas. Judgment involves all the ways of coming to conclusions about what has been perceived. If people differ systematically in what they perceive and in how they reach conclusions, then it is only reasonable for them to differ correspondingly in their interests, reactions, values, motivations, and skills."
Enneagram may refer to:
Enneagram of Personality, a model of human personality which uses an enneagram figure
Not only do these tools help you understand yourself better and what drives some of your behaviors, they also help you understand and get along better with others.
The MBTI is often used in employee training, marriage counseling and personal development.
Yours Forever
Tharendra Lunia
