Dare to peep into our inner selves more than what glitters outside.
We live our lives in the formative, educational, facing challenges in real life, and reflective stages.
Irrespective of where we stand today, our uniqueness is fractionally revealed. Most of us will hopefully agree. We are what we have decided to be. It is our choice that moves our lives in a particular direction—slow or fast, smooth or tough, fulfilling or empty.
Every man is the architect of his own future, says Appius Cladius.
Our abilities are largely undiscovered. Even if we are average today, we can improve ourselves by revealing our inner selves bit by bit, year by year.
Incidentally, we are largely influenced by the glitter outside, just to increase our anxiety and frustration. It indicates a great mismatch between our inner world and our outer world. We rarely work to awaken our innate power. It is not a hard exercise, but it is not our priority.
There is one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true self, says William James.
What are our inner selves?
It is the sum of our feelings, values, beliefs, fantasies, emotions, desires, and questions about our lives. They are interconnected, which makes the inner picture too complex to understand. But all knots start opening once one knot is opened. It seems weird because we care least about our internal makeup. How many times do we think about controlling negative feelings? Most of us are blank on this count.
The inner self is completely unseen, and control over it varies from person to person. That defines our efforts to explore the scale of our abilities. A strong inner self means we manage our stress well, we know to bounce back when something wrong occurs, we handle provocation effectively, we use our intuitions, and we never forget we are all equal humans from the inside.
While talking about our inner selves, we may try to find our own answers to common behaviours, as briefed below:
1. How to restrain temptations:
We are just copying the dominant habits and behaviours of others to match their status and preferences. We love to play in the outer world. In the long run, we suffer.
2. How to keep larger pictures in mind and check for distractions in all steps:
The mind plays with distractions during idle time.
Total time minus attention equals distraction.
Someone is decisive enough to be a scientist or a top-class businessman. And it happens. How. He was always keeping the big picture in mind.
3. Whether we are focusing on our strengths:
We are too busy with our routines and get exhausted more often. Where is the time to look inside? It is clearly an excuse. Our strengths come from our inner power. Occasionally, the outsider does motivation, but it steers only when we agree.
4. What we have been asked to do to ignite dormant power is not working:
We are adhering to some activities aimed at activating our sincerity, integrity, humility, and agility, but our negativity is still controlling our lives. It means we are just completing the formalities without knowing their purpose. We need to reorient our activities to achieve our purpose.
5. We are suffering from a feeling of inadequacy.
It occurs. It has to be conquered through our repeated actions. We are all flawed. It means we have to work on these spots to turn deficiencies into strengths. The eagles do it to reinvent their lives after a certain age.
6. We feel that the world is working against us. It is a dangerous feeling. The universe is waiting for our actions. Surprisingly, we are the designers of our own defeat, not outsiders.
7. We defend our positions as a matter of honour. It is a negative action. Winning the war through words never works in our favour. Covering up our weaknesses amounts to allowing them to grow.
All individuals have separate sets of strengths and deficiencies. When we peep into what we have inside, we expand our strengths, and side by side, our inadequacies shrink.
We need to redirect our minds to pursue possibilities and prune problems without being too judgmental on all issues from now on.