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Have You Met Yourself Recently?

Sherry wrote a blog recently called Are You Honest With Yourself? and I found that it touched me deeply. It affected me enough that I read it twice and now I want to throw in my own two cents and ask another question: Have You Met Yourself Recently?

Consider for a Moment

Consider for a moment what you would think of yourself if you’d met yourself recently? I began the exercise by considering all the things that I like about myself and all the things that I don’t particularly care for. One of my more positive attributes, at least I’ve always thought so, is my ability to be daring and to go for it even when the odds were risky or uncertain. I can’t say that I’m quite so daring now and I had to really think about that.

Why wasn’t I daring anymore? Had I become more complacent? Was I a little less courageous than I had been when I was younger? What changed? Well, I am older, I am married and I have a family. There are more people to depend on me than just myself. It’s easy to be daring and take risks when no one else will be hurt or really affected by potential failure but myself.

Yet the person, I have grown into, is not so bad at all. I’m still willing to devote myself to a cause. I have a lot of gumption and I have what others have described as an innate ability to stubborn my way out of bad situations. So while being pig-headed may not always be a positive trait, I use it positively and creatively in my own life.

Overextending Myself

I have a habit of overextending myself and trying to do too much. I want to give my daughter a lot of opportunities and I want to do the same for my husband and myself. So that can leave me spreading myself thin. I’ve learned, gradually and not without a few hard knocks, to realize that I can reposition myself and reassign my resources and my talents to help make things work out

So while getting to know myself is a continuous process as I grow and change, I have to admit – I have met myself recently and I am pretty happy with what I discovered there. Have you met yourself recently?

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About Heather Long

Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago. They have a beautiful daughter who just turned five years old. She is learning to read and preparing for kindergarten in the fall. An author of more than 300 articles and 500+ web copy pieces, Heather has also written three books as a ghostwriter. Empty Canoe Publishing accepted a novel of her own. A former horse breeder, Heather used to get most of her exercise outside. In late 2004, early 2005 Heather started studying fitness full time in order to get herself back into shape. Heather worked with a personal trainer for six months and works out regularly. She enjoys shaking up her routine and checking out new exercises. Her current favorites are the treadmill (she walks up to 90 minutes daily) and doing yoga for stretching. She also performs strength training two to three times a week. Her goals include performing in a marathon such as the Walk for Breast Cancer Awareness or Team in Training for Lymphoma research. She enjoys sharing her knowledge and experience through the fitness and marriage blogs.