Know Yourself

There is no better place to start on you journey to self improvement than by knowing yourself. Take a real long look in the mirror and try to see yourself as others see you. To do it well you have to strip away your ego. You aren’t who your ego tells you that you are, you are just a person, defined by however you make the people around you perceive you. This can be very hard to come to grips with because we live in our heads as an accumulation of our own experiences and perceptions, but that doesn’t necessarily align with how you’re being perceived right now. Consider how you’re being perceived, lean into it, and make small visible behavioral adjustments to be perceived as the person you want to be. It doesn’t feel good to be misunderstood, own your narrative.