Time To Become YOU

~ Life goes by quickly. Don’t spend another single moment being anyone but yourself. Your content is more meaningful than your cover ~ talkswitheve

It is time to become you. What is your focus as you go through your day? Is it on the next thing on your to-do list? The next thing you absolutely must do and finish today? Or is your focus worrying about the uncertainties of your future? Of course, they each have importance as they impact your life. It is, however, time to become you. The authentic YOU who should be in the driver’s seat of your life.

You are the driver of your own life

The direction for your life is essentially in your hands. You are the driver of your life, and if you are not in the driver’s seat steering, you are either in the passenger or back seats.

So, if not you, who then is driving your life?

Time is passing, things are happening, around and to you, and if you are the driver of your own life your behavior would involve self-awareness, taking action, and being responsible for yourself.

If you are not the driver, you have in effect given total control of your life to whomever or whatever crosses your path. Does that make you curious or cringe – in horror?

Think about this for a moment. During the time between birth and adulthood (or when you left home), you were not the driver of your own life – your parent(s), or another caretaker(s) did the driving. Remember how you felt? How you longed for that day when you could do what you wanted? Make your own decisions? Be your own person?

Well, are you? Are you doing what you really want? Making your own decisions? Being your own person?

Living your authentic self

I know how important it is to be accepted and fit in with our peers and society. However, you are not living your authentic self if fitting in is your focus.

You are each a unique individual. There is no other person in the world like you. Fitting in will be challenging. You may feel pulled in many directions, or you might settle. However, hiding, or suppressing your real self, moving with the ebb and flow of your environment, can take a toll on you.

You are living a life that is an imitation of what is expected of you and not your own life based on your own values and principles. It requires a LOT of energy to be someone you are not, which may be the reason many may feel spent at the end of the day.

How about channeling your energy into realizing your own aspirations?

Get back in the driver’s seat

You must get back in the driver’s seat. Starting with checking in with yourself.

Lack of time is often an adequate excuse given for putting off something that needs to be done. However, let us call it what it really is – procrastination.

You will need time to figure out how to get back in the driver’s seat. Time is not something we lack right now. There is no time like the present to turn your focus on you.

Although, finding space for alone time can be challenging when you are with your family or roommates 24/7.

Time to become you

Do take the time though – find the physical space so you can give space to your thoughts – because in doing so you give yourself the chance to make your life fulfilling. If you are not in the driver’s seat, and you are not in charge of the direction of your life, guess what? You are not living your life. You are simply existing.

Figuring out who you are and how to become you require time and deep thinking. Not sure where or how to start? Check out these five ways to jumpstart your own thought process.

We average about 70,000 thoughts each day. It will take time to master your thoughts as you learn to control your conscious thinking and take back your power.

It is time to become you. The authentic YOU!

Live your life. Make good and happy memories you can look back on in your golden years.