How do you see yourself? What are your strengths? What are your weaknesses? What role do you play in your family? What role do you play at work? Is what you see reality, or is it illusion? Most people tend to be a bit hard on themselves – they see themselves in a certain way, and the focus is usually more negative than positive. So … how do we “reinvent” ourselves in a more positive light?

The first thing that we need to do – indeed, the most important thing – is to stop, take an inventory, and recognize how exactly it is that we see ourselves. Make a list of what you feel are your strengths, and your weaknesses, and the qualities that you feel you need to develop. Are you seeing a picture of yourself from long ago – a picture that in reality you have outgrown, but in your mind is very real?

Now look at your achievements, and the skills that helped you manifest those achievements. Don’t stop at the small stuff – list every major accomplishment in your life, and the skills/abilities that it took to manifest them. These are your real strengths!

Find the common denominator in your successes, and you will have found a key to your passion in life. You will begin to see yourself, and what you can accomplish, in a different light. The “new you” is the real you that was there all along, waiting to be acknowledged!