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What do you say when you talk with yourself?
Don’t deny it. You do it.
Out loud? Maybe not, although some of us do.
But we all engage with dialogue with ourselves every day. It’s possible to make those conversations more meaningful.
Self-loathing is not really meaningful dialogue. Beat yourself up all you want and it’s not likely to lead to positive action. If anything, it’s likely destructive – especially if it goes on too long.
“Know thyself” is an ancient Greek inscription. But it’s much more. It’s a lifelong quest that I suspect few of us achieve. All the more reason for us to engage in meaningful conversation with ourselves.
There are a variety of tools and resources you can use to help propel this conversation forward – that talk you have with yourself. I discuss just one such tool. The tool isn’t the important thing. The more important thing is to have the conversation and to make efforts to have a true reading on who we are.
Soar with your strengths. Be congruent. Be genuine. Work hard. Knowing yourself is heavy lifting. Profitable, but heavy.
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