Discover Yourself, Unlock Your Potential and Create a Better Future

When people talk about self-discovery, they often refer to it as a journey. Not the type of journey where you travel from place to place, but an internal exploration of oneself.


A journey of self-discovery is an attempt to determine what moves you. What are your feelings, priorities, and motivations? What untapped potential, abilities, and strengths do you possess? It is an exploration not just of your positive traits, but your internal vulnerabilities. Only when you know what is holding you back, can you overcome it, or even turn it into an advantage.

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HOW CAN YOU GET TO 

The Life You Want

IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND YOUR 

UNDERLYING MOTIVATIONS?

Life is full of choices, options, and decisions to be made. If you don't understand yourself, it is easy to flounder and get lost. 


Knowing and understanding yourself is the foundation of personal growth. By discovering yourself, you can also find direction and certainty to move forward.

It's Time to Begin Your Personal Discovery Journey

We all start our journeys to personal knowledge at the beginning. However, the starting line is not the same for everyone. No matter who you are, you have some stumbling blocks to overcome, and some people may even have more than their fair share of difficulties to conquer.


Understand that you can only start from where you are, no matter where you’re beginning or what your circumstances. You need to grow from where you are planted. 


A journey of personal discovery is taken in steps, and your confidence and clarity will grow as you gain understanding.


Understanding the Importance of Self Exploration

If we don’t understand ourselves and who we are, how can we become the people we aspire to be?


This is the key to why self-discovery is so important.


Without fully examining your why, you may be led into following the life path that others have set for you. When you live your life based on others’ expectations of you, it is hard to measure up. Your internal compass will always be pointing somewhere else, and this will cause you to never quite meet others’ expectations while at the same time, shortchanging yourself.


When you understand yourself, your goals and path become clearer.


Help For Discovering Yourself

When someone sets out to climb Mt. Everest, the tallest mountain in the world, they make the decision to do it by themselves. That climber has to find the internal motivation and drive to make the journey up the slope on their own. But, even the most experienced climber needs to prepare. They need tools and a guide to make it to the summit.


In the same way, your journey to discovering yourself is your own, and only you can make it happen. However, there are some tools you can use to help guide you on your way, to overcome temporary obstacles and make it to the top.


Time, focus, and intention are the first steps to self discovery, but what other tools can help to guide you on your journey?

SELF-DISCOVERY BOOKS

Reading self-discovery books can focus your own efforts towards personal growth. You have your own power inside, but reading self-help motivational books can light the spark you need to set your confidence free.

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AFFIRMATION CARDS

At some point in your life, you may get stuck in a cycle of negative thinking. Your thoughts may revolve around why you can’t do something, someone else’s priorities, or a perceived failure. 


You can change the way you think. It is possible to change your mindset. The solution is to toss out thoughts that are not serving you and to replace them with new and positive ones. Self exploration and positive affirmation cards can help you to develop positive thought patterns.


With time, determination, and repetition, positivity becomes your default setting.

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1-ON-1 COACHING

Jumpstart your self-discovery journey through a series of one-on-one personal coaching sessions built around your unique needs. During these confidential virtual meetings, we'll ask the questions and use tested techniques to help you discover and overcome the obstacles holding you back.

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BOOK WRITING COACHING

It can be tough to write a book, but it doesn't need to be. If you need some help getting started, I can help as a self-publishing writing coach to find motivation and guide you through the entire writing and publishing process.

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Frequently Asked Questions About Self Discovery

  • What is self-discovery?

    Self-discovery is the internal journey of becoming aware of your potential. This process of gaining knowledge about yourself can include an exploration of your abilities, character, and motivations.

  • Why is self-discovery important to your success in life?

    Knowing who you are at your core level lays the foundation to create an unshakable belief in yourself.  When you have confidence and stop doubting yourself, you can learn to go from being uncomfortable to being unstoppable.


    When you possess clarity and confidence, you are acting from a place of strength. From this strength of intention comes the power to follow through with your goals and achieve meaningful success.


    Because you have taken the time to know yourself well, your successes will be based on your own personal values and truths.

  • What are the different types of self-discovery?

    To truly understand yourself, you need to reflect on the mental, spiritual, financial, emotional, and physical aspects of your life.

  • How do I find my path to self-discovery?

    If at first, you don’t succeed, try, try again. Knowing yourself at a deep level isn’t an instantaneous transformation, but an ongoing process. You may have light bulb moments, but you need to do the work and take the time to truly know yourself.


    You have to be willing to take the journey alone. You cannot search for validation from others, only yourself.


    Bloom where you are planted. Stay focused on growing where you are now. There are opportunities wherever you are, you just need to work through your temporary struggles, keep working steadily, and stay on course.

  • How can you take self-discovery to the next level?

    The world gives us many labels, I am a student, I am an accountant, etc.  When you think deeper, beyond the labels, and ask yourself questions about your internal motivations for becoming or being, you can better understand yourself.


    In this way, you can find your second layer of why. You think you know what you want, but we only focus on the first layer. For example, I want a college education, I want to get married, I want to be rich, but when you take that to the second layer, why do you want a college education, why do you want to get married, why do you do anything you do?   


    How did you come to be at the point you are at now? Was it to open up new opportunities, was it to fulfill family expectations?  Gaining an understanding of your true motivations can grant you valuable personal insights.

  • The most important questions and how to ask them.

    What is my purpose?  How can I live and work with purpose?

What the Bible Says About Self-discovery

“The one who gets wisdom loves life; the one who cherishes understanding will soon prosper.”


Proverbs 19:8 

Are You Ready to Unlock Your Future?

One-on-one coaching can help you unlock confidence by understanding the potential that lies within you. 

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