I am sure everyone instinctively knows and understands this. The key to unlock our happiness and our personal power is honesty.
Being honest with oneself requires a great deal of courage, but once mastered it becomes second nature.
You might wonder what honesty has to do with wellness.
Looking at wellness and wellness concepts closely, one finds that it is all about understanding oneself, and then taking that understanding and doing something positive for ourselves with it.
To humbly sit and observe ourselves, with all our strengths and weaknesses, we have to be brutally honest with ourselves.
There is no other way to approach life, and achieve and maintain sustainable success without being honest with oneself.
Without honesty we have no starting point. We will tend to follow blindly and eventually burn out. We then strive to cultivate resilience so that we can follow the herd more closely for longer, and then burn out again.
Be honest with yourself now. Is that what you really want?
This week’s challenge:
Take half an hour off from your life to be honest with yourself.
Write down your strengths and weaknesses, your responsibilities and goals. Write down your dreams of who you would like to be, and give an explanation of why.
Come back to your list the next day and see how you can build on your strengths, counter your weaknesses, and how you can work towards achieving your dream – or even change your dream.
Give yourself a chance. Be honest with yourself, make small changes, and start to live in a better world; one of your own making.
What would you rather be doing?
What would your life be like if you were doing it?
What do you need to change?
What is your plan?
