Saturday, August 04, 2007

What I've been thinking about this week...

"The authentic self is the you that can be found at your absolute core.

It is the part of you that is not defined by your job, or your function, or your role.

It is the composite of all your unique gifts, skills, abilities, interests, talents, insights, and wisdom.

It is all of your strengths and values that are uniquely yours and need expression, versus what you have been programmed to believe that you are ‘supposed’ to be and do.

It is the you that flourished, unselfconsciously, in those times in your life when you felt happiest and most fulfilled.

It is the you that existed before and remains when life’s pain, experiences, and expectancies are stripped away.”

- P.C. McGraw from Self Matters: Creating your Life From The Inside Out.