What We’re Looking For Is Right Under Our Noses
“Diamonds under the soles of your shoes” – Paul Simon
Quite often in western societies, young people will set off on their gap year to travel the world and, in doing so, hope to learn more about who they really are and what makes them tick. In fact, there are plenty of people of all ages who do this once or many times throughout their life. I can remember my first trip away from Scotland, to a kibbutz in Israel! Between me buying the ticket and getting on the plane a war started. I still went, learnt a lot about myself and other cultures. I also discovered that people are not that different across the world.
Sure, a holiday or gap year can give us the opportunity to experience new things and meet new people…but as far as finding oneself goes, that can be done anywhere!
This is because finding oneself and discovering who one really is, is something that life alone will reveal to us.
It doesn’t matter where in the world we are, what our circumstances are…the desire to discover who we really are will bring about the experiences, the people and the opportunities which will help us to discover who we are.
We can learn about who we are through good and bad experiences at work, in relationships, with our health, good and with our finances.
If we truly want to discover who we are, we want to accept good and bad experiences for what they are Experiences! We take what we take from them through our judgements and perceptions. We need contrasting experiences to reveal different parts of our personalities. The hidden crevices that otherwise would remain undiscovered, the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.
George Moore summed it all up beautifully when he said “A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.”
Who we are truly is already in us, sometimes it just needs something or someone to bring it out.
Self discovery…it’ll happen anywhere at any time. That’s what life’s all about!
P.S. I will be taking on 4 new coaching clients early in 2010 for an intensive 1 year coaching programme. Contact me directly at Donald@zonedinperformance.com if you are interested. A place on the programme is not guaranteed and I will be working with people totally committed to creating the “WOW LIFE” they desire and acting fearlessly to make their vision a reality.
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