How Well Do You Know Yourself?

I wrote recently in a blog concerning knowing your purpose.  I think we need to look back a bit and see that if we are going to know our purpose, we must first know ourselves.  John Maxwell in his great book, The Fifteen Invaluable Laws of Growth, writes in the second law – “The Law of Awareness - you must know yourself to grow yourself.” 

John goes on to say, “to grow, you must know…your strengths and weaknesses, your interests and opportunities. You must be able to gauge not only where you’ve been, but also where you are now. Otherwise you cannot set a course for where you want to go.” 

Think about this statement!

How well do you know yourself?  What motivates you?  What do you like?  What are you good at doing?  What energizes you?  This will take time to reflect and understand, because if we ever intend to grow our businesses, our families, our finances, our future, we must first grow ourselves.  To do that we must be fully aware.

John asks some probing questions in his book: 

1. Do you like what you’re doing now?

2. What would you like to do?

3. Can you do what you would like to do?

4. Do you know why you want to do what you would like to do?

5. Do you know what to do so you can do what you want to do?

 6. Do you know people who do what  you’d like to do?

7. Should you do what you’d like to do with them? 

8. Will you pay the price to do what you want to do?

9. When can you start doing what you’d like to do? 

10.  What will it be like when you get to do what you’d like to do?

Take time to review these questions?  Meditate and reflect on them as they apply to you!  You’ll begin to know yourself.  It’s a beginning to a lifetime of growing to become the person you were made to be.

Two great days in your life:  

1. The day you were born

2. The day you discover why?