Who Are You?

At some point in each of our lives, we ask ourselves, “Who am I? Why am I here? What is my purpose?” These questions are necessary for our growth and our answers may change as we experience our lives. However, the main aspect of ourselves—who we truly are—our identity, is something that is usually molded as children through young adulthood and stays fairly intact. At least, it should if we have had the chance to properly develop our own identity and sense of self.

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We All Need Coaches

No matter what our goals are, we all need coaches or mentors to help us get there. Why? Because it is hard for us to call ourselves out on our own excuses and mistakes. We will always find a justification. We need someone who is not involved in our daily lives as a friend and who can look at the scenarios going on in our lives or the aspects we are questioning from an unbiased outsider’s perspective. It is vital to find someone who has the experience, the know-how, and the ability to give unbiased opinions to help us evaluate our lives and our goals successfully.

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Too Busy or Unwilling

Some people are not willing to take the time to sit down and really think about not only the direction of their life but also the overall perspective of where they want to get in life. A lot of times they just go week by week, yet they never sit down and say, “This is where I want my life to be in 6 months or 12 months,” or any type of time period. Some think, “Oh I have it up here, all in my head,” but the actuality is that our plans do not become a reality until we put it on paper. We can toss an idea around in our head for hours, days, or years, but it’s never quite as clear as when you see it written down.

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Entitlement Is Everywhere

We all have a little entitlement inside of us. It is only human, but it is vital that we keep that entitlement in check by continuously and consciously working on our attitude reformation. Entitlement is one of those sentiments that can take over your entire mindset, if you let it. And when that happens the only person you are really hurting is yourself.

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Awareness Is Freedom

How you live your life is completely your choice. You can continue to live as a part of the Walking Dead. There is absolutely nothing wrong with it; the choice is yours. This is simply a call for you to become aware of your choices. Stop blaming society, circumstances, and others for where you are in your life. Happiness, choice, and freedom start within your own mind. You truly hold all the power.

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Patterns Are Comforting

Patterns are comforting. Our brains like patterns. And we are creatures of routine. Some routines are helpful. A good morning routine can get us through our morning quickly, but living our entire lives on autopilot is not ideal.

If you wake up every day at the same time, brush your teeth the same way, get dressed the same way, maintain your morning, afternoon, and evening rituals every day, etc., you are programming your mind. You are actually “cementing” your memory and your habits. 

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Communciation Is Key

Everything comes down to communication, whether we are communicating with others or even with ourselves. And communication has dramatically changed in just the last decade with the increased use of technology. I can go days now without speaking to someone on the telephone but will have communicated via email and text with more people in that same time frame than I used to in an entire two-week period. Technology is amazing, but we’re becoming even less fluent in human-to-human communication every day that we allow ourselves to become isolated.

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Rational Educated Decisions (#DrinkRED)

In so much of our world today we take sound bites as fact. We do our research on Facebook and our decision-making based on tweets. Education is no longer valued here in the United States, but rather results are. Instead of ensuring that our children fully understand a concept and can use it to think for themselves, we are more concerned with them knowing how to perform on a standardized test so that our schools “rank” high. But all that ranking means is that our schools get more funding, not that our children are getting better educations. We are so focused on the results that we forget about working with each individual student to ensure they perform at the best of their abilities.

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