Sure, you believe in the opportunity to hit snooze three times and the restorative power of a gossipy phone call, but what really matters to you? Naming the core beliefs that guide your actions can be transformative in discovering who you are.
Focus on Important Life Lessons
Focus on one important life lesson – and think about a specific challenge or experience that brought it to life for you. I can recommend writing down that memory, keeping your account short so you can concentrate on the details that led to your realization. Beliefs are different than advice, for example, “seize the day” is a mantra that becomes meaningful only when you can explain how this mentality motivated you to ask your now husband out of a first date.
Highlight the Positive
Beliefs are often forged by harrowing situations, but that doesn't mean you need to dwell in negativity to uncover them. Home in on your values by focusing on the lessons learned ofter a crisis or in the calm moments within the storm when you recognized your full strength. Letting trauma take center stage will lead you to a statement centered on fear rather than on resilience and hope. Fear is a disease which will eat our confident, if we not control fear it will spread like a virus throughout our mind, pushing us in deep depressions.
Share your Beliefs
Explain them in a card to a loved one, or jot down your cornerstone ideas on a post-it stuck to your fridge. If a belief can't be whittled into a sentence, find a representative symbol, like a sunflower to remind you to look on the bright side.
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