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Six Reasons for Lack of Self-Knowledge #3

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Lack of Self-Knowledge: Reason #3

#3 They think they are not smart enough

They think self-knowledge is only for people with PhDs or gurus who sit on mountain tops in India.
Or for famous writers, or MBAs, or philosophy professors in universities or think tanks. 
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Maybe this idea comes from what they’ve heard about Greek philosophy and that would be enough to scare off anybody, but it isn’t true. Philosophy is just examining life, our world and our place in it.
The other thing is, you can learn something you don’t know about yourself fast. And that information can help, you guide you for everything you do.
You already know a lot. For example, you know:
  • whether you are a night-owl or an early riser;
  • what your favorite foods are;
  • what you favorite kinds of movies and books are, etc.
Those are good things to know, yes?
It makes decision-making a lot easier.
Well, think about ratcheting up that knowledge up about a thousand times and you start to really know yourself and see your great potential when you discover the real, authentic you!
Let me show you something pretty fast.
Here’s a site that allows you to discover some of your strengths and weaknesses.
What you’ll learn here will help you know yourself a little better (maybe a lot better!)
Think about that when you are done, and then think what we could do together to discover much more about you
Self-knowledge will help you be more successful in your personal and professional life.
Your academic life too, for that matter.
Knowing yourself allows you to make better choices for yourself and, about yourself.
And even more important—it will be on your own terms. It will use your gifts, talents, and abilities to the utmost—to realize your true potential.
We get one shot at life—make it your best shot.
Email me and we’ll talk. I’ll show you how to improve your life in so many ways it’ll make your head spin.
You will reduce procrastination, increase your time management, improve your goal-setting and make you more content.
That’s a lot, but it doesn’t come close to the benefits of self-knowledge.
You will be amazed at what you were missing.
I assure you!
Lets schedule a FREE half hour conversation.
See if you agree! If you don’t, no problem! You’ve got nothing to lose if you take action, but  a lot to lose if you don’t.
As they used to say in that shampoo ad—You’re WORTH IT!
Frank

Do you find self? Create self? And what’s the point?

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FIND SELF OR CREATE IT?

MANY EXPERTS ADVISE US TO “FIND OURSELVES.”  

WHY? What’s the point?

The point is you make better choices in life, better decisions about yourself because you know who you are and what you want.

DO WE FIND SELF OR CREATE IT?
There seems to be confusion, though, about whether we find ourselves (the self having already been created) or whether we create ourselves –from whatever is inside us and whatever we add throughout life.  

Both philosopher, Thomas Szasz, and writer, George Bernard Shaw, say

“The self is not something one finds: it is something one creates.”

What?

Thomas Szasz, philosopher.

S#*!

Many wise guys coming to opposite conclusions?

If they can’t agree –what chance do WE have of figuring this stuff out?

No wonder people never get to know themselves, I can hear you saying.

The experts can’t even get it straight!

“Find yourself” say some.

“No, You don’t find yourself, you create yourself,” say others.

That sounds like a contradiction. But it isn’t.

We CAN talk about finding our true selves if we use the term FINDING to mean we go deep inside ourselves to discover our natural gifts.

The ones that have the capacity to be identified and nurtured.

When you find your gifts (that is, RECOGNIZE them)…(and I can teach you how to do this later) …you then CREATE your SELF from them.

Your abilities, talents and gifts will tell you what your self is.

You can discover them now even if you don’t already know what they are.

Then you USE them to CREATE your SELF.

We are all unique in our human make-up, in our essence, even if we do not see it.
Other people will see it though.

Playwright George Bernard Shaw

Other people DID see it.

Your friends, teachers, relatives saw it in you when you were little.

  • Maybe those people did not nurture those things that make you unique.
  • Maybe they were preoccupied with their own problems.
  • Maybe they weren’t good at noticing these things.
  • Maybe they weren’t smart enough
  • Maybe they were jealous.

Who the hell knows?

And now, who cares.

Well, actually WE both care.  You and I.

We’re not going to be victims and mope around about it.

You probably (at least partially) recognized your true gifts too but maybe you weren’t paying attention either.

Why do you think you start wanting to do weird stuff when you get to be 30 or 35 or 40?

  • Stuff you’ve never done before–like playing a musical instrument or learning a language or reading about math?
  • Or picking up something that you vaguely remember liking to do when you were a kid.
  • Or starting to do something that intrigued the hell out of you when you were younger but somehow never had the time or the courage to try then?

We CAN go into this deeply (and if you stay with me we will).

And you’ll HAVE to do some deep work to some degree, even if it’s just to figure out how the hell you missed all the obvious signs that indicated you were an amazing creature.

  • Even if somebody did point these gifts out to you but you ignored their observations.
  • Even if you have failed to recognize your gifts.
  • Or abandoned them.
  • Or traded them for what you thought was shiny gain, or easy opportunity.
  • Or wrong-headed self-sacrifice.

(There’s a lot of THAT going on out there!)

The potential is still there.

So “finding yourself” or “creating yourself.”

Call it whatever you like.

If you want to be happy, you still have to do it.

If you are not a subscriber, you can begin by getting my eBook,

FOUR QUESTIONS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE!

It’s FREE 

You can also get a free consultation with me on any problem that might be driving you nuts.

If you have a problem with time management, personal goals, choosing a career path, the inability to choose a life partner (maybe you consistently date the wrong people) or any other troublesome area, you can help solve it with self-knowledge and I can teach you how to do that.

For a 20 minute– FREE— introduction, please email me: daleyfrank0@gmail.com.

I’ll be with you.

In the meantime, sign up to Self-Knowledge College for much more information about YOU! 

-Frank

Who Do You Think You Are? Test Yourself.

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Ever hear people say: “Who does he think is is?”

We often say it about people we think are “getting too big for their britches.” If people acknowledge they did something good, others accuse them of bragging.

“Wow! Does that tell you anything?

If person knows who he is but she can’t mention it? Are we so afraid of our ‘selves’ that we can’t even acknowledge ourselves when we’re good at something? We sure do it when we don’t feel competent.

HERE’S A LITTLE TEST

Write down all the things you are really good at. It doesn’t matter what it is: cooking singing, math, whatever. Just write down as many things as you can that you are terrific in or at.

Now, write down as many things as you can that you are not good at.  

Which list is longer?

Most peoples’ list of things they’re good at is shorter (sometimes much shorter) than the ‘not good at’ list. And it takes them longer to write down the ‘good at’ list. This is not only not healthy, it’s probably not even true. Not true, but still accepted as one of our ‘presenting’ selves.

Maybe it is our most used presenting self, the one people see the most even though it isn’t accurate. When talents are recognized and nurtured early, the child will develop best. But what if they’re not recognized or nurtured? That happens a lot more and the negative effects can be cruel.

Not right away, not with one instance maybe, but over time and with reinforcement, negative thoughts, once accumulated,  can be devastating. This influences our self-esteem and self-confidence more than is understood by most people. It influences self-talk too. (“Well, I’m not reality good at public speaking” or “I’m terrible at math.”)

I am not good at math, but frankly, I didn’t have good math teachers all through grade and high school.

None.

In fact one of them used to bang our heads against the blackboard if we didn’t know an answer. It was much later in life that I saw the beauty of math  and its relationship to things like music.

THINK OF SPORTS FIGURES

Look at all the Olympic swimmers and gymnasts who have been training since they were small children. OlympicTrials_Kuras

Is it all luck? Can they not admit they’re good at what they do without somebody calling them on it for being prideful? This is ridiculous on its face but our society operates this way.

Did you display any talent in any of the arts such as painting, dancing, acting, music? Did you develop any of these? Do you still want to? Do you have a desire to do something different, not ‘normal’? Did you not pursue something because somebody thought it was ‘weird’?

Examine your life.

Imagine you are standing on a chair, looking down at the floor on which is a chart of your life to this day. Do you see patterns, associations, and connections between things you thought you were good at, things people told you you were good at, activities you know you were good at?

WHAT ARE YOU REALLY GOOD AT?

  • Think of your accomplishments in school or out.
  • Think of your ‘wins,’ your distinctions, your great moments.
  • Think of what people praised you for, complimented you for
  • Think of when people said “You are so good at ‘x.’
  • Write them downWhat attracts you?

    Is college for you?

    Good at science?

  • Repels you?
  • What came easily to you as a child and still does?
  • What do you do easily that other people struggle with?
  • What do you love to do?
  • What would you do even if nobody knew about it?
  • What would you do even if they didn’t pay you to do it?
  • What wouldn’t you do even if they paid you a lot of money?

Think of other areas where you indicated special knowledge or gifts. Business? Interpersonal skills?

Anything at all because it isn’t just the thing itself that’s important it’s what it reveals, what it leads to, what it suggests.

Of great interest is the combinations of things you are drawn to.

One woman I know wanted to be a teacher but not exactly; she wanted work in public relations but not exactly; she wanted to do marketing but not exactly. She also wanted to help poor people in developing countries. What did she come up with? She thinks she’d like to be a teacher of teachers. She’d like to take her expertise in public relations and marketing and teach people in developing countries who themselves would teach burgeoning entrepreneurs about public relations and marketing!

How brilliant is that! That is creativity at a high level! Then you have to combine all your gifts and talents.4865957358_2fdf2b0090_m student work gardening See the connections, associations and patterns. That’s what the woman I mentioned above figured out.

See which latent talents and gifts you have developed to the point where you actually perform them well, ones which you actually DO well.

Which ones are you skilled at? How can you advance them, leverage them, combine them, create new situations for them? We have to find those and concentrate on them, capitalize on them.

If you aren’t sure what you talents are, you can find out in my course:  

Secrets of Success Through Self-Knowledge (coming soon!)

If you  would like an idea in advance of what the course is about, you can email me or call me.

We can do this.

You can do it and I can help.

In the meantime, sign up FREE at Self-Knowledge College and get my Book 4 Questions to Change Your Life! (I’ll be changing that gift soon but as of this writing it is still active.

If it isn’t there, there’ll be something just as good for you!

-Frank

daleyfrank0@gmail.com

905-584-0617

Love Yourself First Or You Can’t Love Anyone Else

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You can’t love anybody else unless you love yourself first.
Love is a complicated subject and most people get it wrong at first–some never get it right.
We get love confused with its imposters lust, infatuation, etc (a subject for another day) but the key to understanding love is to know what you will read here today. Oscar_de_la_Renta_by_foto_di_matti
Oscar De La Renta, the famous clothing designer, who died last year when announcing a new perfume called “Live In Love” said he had been astonished to learn that that name not been registered.
He  got to talking with a reporter on the nature of love.

De La Renta said,

I am always in love but first of all love starts with yourself. You cannot love someone unless you love yourself. Because love is about how you live your life. You cannot be madly in love with someone if you are unhappy with yourself.

LOVE AND HAPPINESS

He related it to happiness and said,

“Happiness has nothing to do with wealth. It has to do with your spirit.  And you have to discover that spirit to discover happiness.”

He’s right, of course.

  • You certainly can’t be happy unless you love yourself.
  • You cannot love anyone else if you don’t love yourself.
  • You can’t give away what you don’t have.
  • If you don’t love yourself you can’t give that love to someone else.

People think they can love someone else even if they don’t love themselves.

In fact, they convince themselves that they are indeed loving persons because they “love” someone  (although not themselves).

They think that although they themselves are unlovable (in their own minds and hearts) other people ARE loveable and they can love them. 

(That’d be good, they think.) They feel they can connect in that way. They can love others even if they can’t love themselves.

Not true.

What they have, or do, is not love, it is a bastardized connection based on inequality or yearning. It can’t be reciprocated unless the relationship is dysfunctional. Unfortunately, that is common. Pity can come back to the person who lacks self-love.

So can concern and a kind of mild affection but not real love, unless it is a faulty kind of love based on sympathy, and that’s not what is desired, is it?

And sometimes, what comes back to these people is discomfort, even disdain, because what they project is recognized by the intended love object, as false, or inadequate love or, simply, not real love but something else.

Sometimes, resentment can build in the loved one because the loved one does not feel real love but need  coming from the “unlovable” one.

That need on the part of  the loveless, turns into a silent (or not so silent!) demand for a return of the love they are trying to compete with the loved one.

It is not pretty. It gets worse. 

One who does not love himself/herself cannot give real love but cannot receive love either. Why?

Because the “unlovable” one does not believe anyone else could love him or her (they know the “truth”–that they are unlovable. They “know” this! You can’t convince them they are worth loving.)

And, “knowing ” this to be true,  then they suspect that any affection that comes to them is fraught with baggage. They think the people who say they love them are lying, mistaken, manipulative or stupid.

Otherwise they, too, would recognize that  the would-be lover is unlovable and reject them.

Complicated, yes. But also simple.
You cannot love someone else if you do not love yourself. And you cannot accept love from another if you do not love yourself. To go even deeper, you cannot love what you do not know. Therefore, you cannot love yourself unless you know yourself.

Everything is centered in Self-Knowledge. There’s much more to this than I’ve written here. When you began to know yourself, you’ll discover how great you are! And then– and then– you will start to love yourself, if you don’t already.

If you already do love yourself, terrific, then you’ll  learn more about you, always a good thing. Keep you out of trouble.

If  you are a member here, good!
If you are not and would like to be, register HERE for a lot of FREE information about YOU!
-Frank

Self-definition: what are we talking about? Let’s find out.

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Self -definition: what are we talking about?

The notion of ‘self’ is obviously crucial to our work here.

(This is Part 30 in a series of articles about the “self.”)

We require a clear and unambiguous definition of terms so that we can attempt  to know our own ‘self’ or selves.
If we don’t know what we’re looking for, there’s no chance we’ll find it. DSC_7835_cm
This, to start us off, is from Wikipedia:

“The self is the subject of one’s own experience of phenomena: perception, emotions, thoughts. In phenomenology, it is conceived as what experiences, and there isn’t any experiencing without an experiencer, the self. The self is therefore an “immediate given”, an intrinsic dimension of the fact of experiencing phenomena. In some other trends of philosophy, the self is instead seen as requiring a reflexive perception of oneself, the individual person, meaning the self in such a view is an object of consciousness.
The self has been studied extensively by philosophers and psychologists and is central to many world religions. With the recent rise in technology, the self has been discussed under various new emerging fields, such as Techno Self Studies (whatever that is!). Yes, I could look it up. (Maybe later.)
1. Philosophy
2. Psychology
3. Religion
4. Philosophy
Main article: Philosophy of self
The philosophy of self seeks to describe essential qualities that constitute a person’s uniqueness or essential being. There have been various approaches to defining these qualities. The self can be considered that being which is

  • the source of consciousness;
  • the agent responsible for an individual’s thoughts and actions;
  • and/or the substantial nature of a person which endures and unifies consciousness over time.

Psychology
Main article: Psychology of self
The psychology of self is the study of either the cognitive and affective representation of one’s identity or the subject of experience. The earliest formulation of the self in modern psychology forms the distinction between the self as I, the subjective knower, and the self as Me, the object that is known.
[1] Current views of the self in psychology position the self as playing an integral part in human motivation, cognition, affect, and social identity
[2] Self following from John Locke has been seen as a product of episodic memory.
(And it goes on!)
Look, we don’t have to get into all this ind detail, only enough to know what we’re talking about when we’re talking about the ‘Self” or, more commonly, ourselves.

The word ‘self’ comes up in conversation far more often than you would expect and there are many combining words that embrace the nature of the word and extend its meaning and use.
We will use the Oxford Dictionary as our general guide. bigstock-Middle-aged-couple-outdoors-10657865

We won’t include all the definitions because some are not relevant (self-adhesive) and some are obvious (self-destructive).

BASIC DEFINITION OF SELF

SELF:

  • A person’s essential being; that which distinguishes a person from another
  • A person’s particular nature or personality
  •  Your consciousness of your own identity
  •  A person considered as a unique individual
  •  One’s own self.
  •  By one’s own efforts; or by its own action (self-adjusting)
  •  Of, or directed towards, oneself or itself (self-hatred)

SELFISH: Concerned chiefly with one’s own personal profit or pleasure at the expense of consideration for others.
SELFLESS:  Concerned with others before oneself.

COMPOUND CONFUSION DEMYSTIFIED

Next, we’ll take a look at some self-compound words that often confuse people when they are talking about (or hearing about) self-anything!
If you are mystified by your own self, tell me how and why!
Comment  below!
Thanks,
Frank
Previous posts:

Part 1: Do you find yourself or create it? And why bother anyway? 

Part 2: Searching for yourself? Flying blind? Need a new search party?

Part 3: Be yourself. Everybody else is taken!

Part 4: Self discovery without viagra.

Part 5: Selfish vs Selfless (in women)

Part 6: Selfish. Always wrong?

Part 7: Selfishness, in the family.

Part 8: Singer Sarah Slean knows who she is

Part 9: Whatever you do, don’t be yourself!

Part 10: Self sinks soon. Save yourself!

Part 11: Be yourself, problem-solving

Part 12: Self-regard. Do you ever feel worthless? 

Part 13: Be more successful. Know yourself

Part 14: Do self-help books work?

Part 15: Do what you love, but know yourself first

Part 16: Self-discovery: Destroying marriage?

Part 17: Self confidence & insecurity in dating

Part 18: Self-esteem comes with self-knowledge and self-love

Part 19: Time to see a therapist? 

Part 20: Settling for the wrong lover?

Part 21: Love yourself first

Part 22: Writing helps self-knowledge

Part 23: Self-esteem: Do you worry?

Part 24: Self-esteem, 2 components

Part 25: Observing self

Part 26: How much do we change after thirty? 

Part 27: Self: Focus on your strengths 

Part 28: Is self-confidence overrated? 

Part 29: Social ties, self-esteem vital to low-income black, latino boys

 

Up next:

Part 31: Self-compounded or confounded: what’s the difference? 

 

Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

LOVE YOURSELF FIRST OR YOU CAN’T LOVE ANYONE ELSE

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LOVE YOURSELF FIRST

“I am always in love but love starts with yourself.”

-Oscar De La Renta

This is Part 21 in a series of article about the “self.”

You can’t love anybody else unless you love yourself first.

Young people (much like older people!) put great importance on love.

And why not? It is a crucial part of life.

But love is a complicated subject and most people get it wrong at first–some never get it right!

We get love confused with its imposters (a subject for another day) but the key to understanding love at all is to know what you will read here today.

Oscar De La Renta, the famous clothing designer, was interviewed in the Toronto Star by Jeanne Beker. The photo above is from his 2012 collection introduced in New York in November.

He was announcing a new perfume called “Live In Love” and said he had been astonished to learn that the name of the perfume he needed a name for had not been registered.

“It’s the way we all so strongly aspire to live life, to love in love–loving what surrounds you, loving your life, loving what you’ve made of your life, loving the moment…”

Becker said that we hear about so many people looking for love because we think finding the right person to love means we will be complete. Hmmm.

De La Renta replied,

“I am always in love but first of all love starts with yourself. You cannot love someone unless you love yourself. Because love is about how you live your life. You cannot be madly in love with someone if you are unhappy with yourself.”

 

LOVE AND HAPPINESS

He related it to happiness and said,

“Happiness has nothing to do with wealth. It has to do with your spirit.  And you have to discover that spirit to discover happiness.”

He’s right, of course.

  • You certainly can’t be happy unless you love yourself.
  • You cannot love anyone else if you don’t love yourself.
  • You can’t give away what you don’t have.
    If you don’t love yourself you can’t give that love to someone else.

People think they can love someone else if they don’t love themselves.

In fact, they convince themselves that they are indeed loving persons because they “love” someone  (although not themselves).

They think that although they themselves are unlovable (in their own minds and hearts) other people ARE loveable and they can love them. (That’d be good, they think.) They feel they can connect in that way.

They can love others even if they can’t love themselves.

Not true.

What they have, or do, is not love, it is a bastardized connection based on inequality or yearning. It can’t be reciprocated unless the relationship is dysfunctional. Unfortunately, it is common.

Pity can come back to the person who lacks self-love. So can concern and a kind of mild affection but not real love, unless it is a love based on sympathy, and that’s not what is desired, is it?

And sometimes, what comes back to these people is discomfort, even disdain, because what they project is recognized by the intended love object, as false, or inadequate love or, simply, not real love but something else.

Sometimes, resentment can build in the loved one because the loved one does not feel real love but need  coming from the “unlovable” one. That need on the part of  the loveless, turns into a silent (or not so silent!) demand for a return of the love they are trying to complete with the loved one.

It is not pretty.

It gets worse.

One who does not love himself/herself cannot give real love but cannot receive love either.
Why?

Because the “unlovable” one does not believe anyone else could love him or her (they know the “truth”–that they are unlovable. They “know” this! You can’t convince them they are worth loving.)

And, “knowing ” this to be true,  then they suspect that any affection that comes to them is fraught with baggage. They think the people who say they love them are lying, mistaken, manipulative or stupid.

Otherwise they, too, would recognize that  the would-be lover is unlovable and reject them.

Complicated, yes.
But also simple.
You cannot love someone else if you do not love yourself.
And you cannot accept love from another if you do not love yourself.

To go even deeper, you cannot love what you do not know.
Therefore, you cannot love yourself unless you know yourself.

Everything is centered in Self-Knowledge.

There’s more to this than I’ve written here.

When you began to know yourself, you’ll discover how great you are! And then– and then– you will start to love yourself, if you don’t already.

If you already do love yourself, terrific, then you’ll  learn more about you, always a good thing.

Keep you out of trouble.
If  you are a member here, good!
If you are not and would like to be, register here for a lot of free information about YOU!
Frank

Previous Posts:

Part 1: Do you find yourself or create it? And why bother anyway? 

Part 2: Searching for yourself? Flying blind? Need a new search party?

Part 3: Be yourself. Everybody else is taken!

Part 4: Self discovery without viagra.

Part 5: Selfish vs Selfless (in women)

Part 6: Selfish. Always wrong?

Part 7: Selfishness, in the family.

Part 8: Singer Sarah Slean knows who she is

Part 9: Whatever you do, don’t be yourself!

Part 10: Self sinks soon. Save yourself!

Part 11: Be yourself, problem-solving

Part 12: Self-regard. Do you ever feel worthless? 

Part 13: Be more successful. Know yourself

Part 14: Do self-help books work?

Part 15: Do what you love, but know yourself first

Part 16: Self-discovery: Destroying marriage?

Part 17: Self confidence & insecurity in dating

Part 18: Self-esteem comes with self-knowledge and self-love

Part 19: Time to see a therapist? 

Part 20: Settling for the wrong lover?

Up next:

 

Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Self-esteem comes with self-knowledge and self-love.

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Self-esteem comes from self-knowledge and self-love.

There’s no other way to get it.

This is Part 18 on a series of article about the “self.”
Here’s a piece on Self-esteem by Helen Nieves writing on Psych Central.Mental Health Awareness
She’s a Mental Health Counselor  who works in New York.
She offers list of 14 ways that may help you to build your self-esteem and feel better about yourself.
Most people feel bad about themselves from time to time.
Low self esteem may be triggered by your own judgement or by the judgement of others. Low self-esteem keeps you from enjoying your life and working towards goals.”
Self-talk, self-care, and don’t compare yourself to others are strong points among her 14.
Read more here.
When you get to know and realize all the gifts you have (that might not have been nurtured-or even noticed– you will develop self-esteem and with it a better life.
If you are suffering from a lack of self-esteem, write to me: daleyfrank0@gmail.com
We can fix this. Truly.
IF YOU Are not a subscriber, you can begin by getting my Ebook
FOUR QUESTIONS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
It’s FREE here and will be on Amazon soon for around $3.
You can also get a free consultation with me on any problem that might be driving you nuts.
If you have a problem with time management, personal goals, choosing a career path, the inability to choose a life partner (maybe you consistently date the wrong people) or any other troublesome area, you can help solve it with self-knowledge and I can teach you how to do that.
For a 20 minute–FREE— introduction, please email me: daleyfrank0@gmail.com or call me: 647-205-5059
I’ll be with you.
-Frank
Previous posts:

Up next:

 

Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Do What You Love but first know who you are

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thinking-about-purposeDo what you love.

But first- know who you are.

This is Part 15 in a series of articles about the “self”.

I hope you’ve asked  yourself,

“Who am I and what am I doing here?”

  • in this job.
  • in this country
  • in this relationship
  • in this educational program

This is the beginning of self-knowledge.

Finding out who you are and what you want is not easy.

It is, however, exactly what we focus on here at THE DALEY POST and  SELF-KNOWLEDGE COLLEGE

Whether you have established a connection between yourself and a “higher purpose” or meaningful life, you have doubtless thought about it.

Here are 16 quotations to help you explore the idea of living with greater purpose and passion. They are from Joe Wilner’s site Your Best Self.

1. “Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to ultimately be at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be.” – Abraham Maslow

The admonition to “Be yourself” is useless advice unless you know   yourself.

2. “Where there is no vision, the people perish.” – Proverbs 29:18

No vision means no goals. No goals means you don’t know what you are good at and what you would love to do. That means no self-knowledge.

3. “This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night of the day, thou canst not be false to any man.” – William Shakespeare

What do you want? What should you do? True to yourself? How can you do that when you don’t know yourself. Find out at Self-Knowledge College

 4. “Never let the odds keep you from pursuing what you know in your heart you were mean to do.” – Satchel Paige

Why are you here on earth? Do do what you love. But first you have to find that out and to do that you must know yourself.

5. “The two most important days in life are the day you born and the day you discover the reason why.” – Mark Twain

The next most important day is today–when you finally decide to figure out who you are and what you want.

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If you want to know more about yourself and what you are doing (or “supposed” to be doing, or think you should be doing here while you are on earth) consider  joining me at Self-Knowledge College.
I can help you figure this out in six -twelve weeks. (Your choice.)
Not kidding.
IF YOU Are not a subscriber, you can begin by getting my eBook
FOUR QUESTIONS TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
It’s FREE here and will be on Amazon soon for around $3.
You can also get a FREE consultation with me on any problem that might be driving you nuts.
If you have a problem with time management, personal goals, choosing a career path, the inability to choose a life partner (maybe you consistently date the wrong people) or any other troublesome area, you can help solve it with self-knowledge and I can teach you how to do that.
For a 20 minute–FREE— introduction, please email me: daleyfrank0@gmail.com or call me: 647-205-5059
I’ll be with you.
No, obligation, we’ll just talk.
-Frank
Previous posts:

Part 1: Do you find yourself or create it? And why bother anyway? 

Part 2: Searching for yourself? Flying blind? Need a new search party?

Part 3: Be yourself. Everybody else is taken!

Part 4: Self discovery without viagra.

Part 5: Selfish vs Selfless (in women)

Part 6: Selfish. Always wrong?

Part 7: Selfishness, in the family.

Part 8: Singer Sarah Slean knows who she is

Part 9: Whatever you do, don’t be yourself!

Part 10: Self sinks soon. Save yourself!

Part 11: Be yourself, problem-solving

Part 12: Self-regard. Do you ever feel worthless? 

Part 13: Be more successful. Know yourself

Part 14: Do self-help books work?

Part 15: Do what you love, but know yourself first

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Frank Daley
daleyfrank0@gmail.com
647-205-5059
356 Westridge Drive , Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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