Chasing your Idyllic Self…

What do Socrates, Lincoln, Mother Teresa and Warren Buffet have in common? They discovered "themselves" and got in touch to the apex in high heels.

It’s true that most of us do not try to unfold our own selves. Self Analysis is thus beneficial to study and comprehend one’s own personality, emotions and behavior as “he who find himself, loses his misery”.

The first step in the quest of your Ideal Self is to know your strengths. I think it’s imperative to recognize our own internal landscapes and how our strengths can be improved in the presence of others with gracious talents. It is a known fact that every person has some weaknesses against strengths. You must analyze your personality traits suspiciously and then plant it in the right column of strength or weakness. 

SWOT analysis is highly beneficial where you be able to place your strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in a matrix. Although you will mark in the box of weaknesses a feature of yourself that is lacking in strength but do remember that there is no such thing as “weakness”, you can always convert them into opportunities. Threats can also be minimized using strengths. So, the most influential of all is STRENGTH. Do concentrate on the stronger element of yourself.

Steve Maraboli once said,

"When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves."

Being a student, it is of very prominence for us to do our self-assessment before choosing a particular field of study. Whether we could do justice with the subject or not! A lot of psychological and social theories are trying to furnish the answers to your self-analysis questions but none could compare the efforts you put in yourself for the sake of discovering YOU. But the journey does not end here, only telling you what you are is not enough to break the seal. 

It is all that you tell to yourself about your own self! But there is a lot of disparity on what we think about ourselves and what other people feel about us. The solution is not to keep a balance, but to answer finally what kind of person do I want to be?  SWOT analysis has told you what you are according to your perception. To know about others’ opinions and judgments on your personality, you can create a short questionnaire inferring from the strengths and weakness you have already listed. Compare the resulting statements with your own judgment and then only you can get a proper dimension.

Now you are in an explicit position to compare and contrast among your self-concept, your true self and your ideal self. What you want to become is what you idealize to be. Play with your strengths and opportunities more, to be your Idyllic self. Now just swim upwards, work on yourself, and be a person you want to be!