It has been an interesting and impressive year for me, and I have definitely learnt a lot. For week 51, I wanted to share the most important advice I would give myself as a 15-year-old girl. It is to learn to know myself more than anyone else!
We are constantly inundated with advice about how to improve absolutely every area of our lives and I mean every area! And many times, the advice or tips are very helpful. However, what I didn't like about these posts or videos is that they're given with the expectation that people who are not working on particular areas of their life are fearful, scared, lazy, and have some deep psychological trauma that they are coping with. And yes, that may be true sometimes but that is not always the case. Sometimes, we are simply working on other areas of our life that are more important to us. Let me share a story with you.
I started my business, Maia Dreams, about 4.5 years ago as a dream that I had as a 15-year-old girl. In 1998, I was first introduced to Personal Development through my mum giving me the Tony Robins Personal Power tapes. (Link to this story in my first Blog: https://www.kristylneho.com/post/my-first-blog-passionately-failing-towards-success.) That led me on a 3.5-year obsessive journey to learn as much as I could about this area. I started reading and learning so much that by the end of this journey, I had read over 400 books on every topic in the Self Help and Psychology Sections of 2 main Libraries.
I remember starting my journey wishing I could transform every part of my life, but it was overwhelming. I wanted help with my studies, learning, dating, weight loss, increasing in my faith, doing the things I love but I didn’t know how to do it or even where to start. I dreamed about being able to go somewhere and people would help me work on every area of my life and help me to transform. There was nowhere like that at that time. Then I thought about how I could start up something where I could help people to live their dream life. From that desire Maia Dreams was born.
It has been decades later, and I have finally been able to successfully work on multiple areas in my life. Growing my business, working on my health, staying grounded in my faith, working towards personal goals, pursuing personal goals, achieving personal, career and business goals. 25 years later and I am finally at the beginning of my journey to becoming the woman God destined me to be. I feel like my life has finally gotten me to this stage where even small things will move me forwards. It has been a lot of work, dedication, rejection, loneliness, confusion, failures, a lot of lessons and a consistent desire to always be learning.
I work on myself consistently and constantly and there are always things that I can unpack, identify, work through, process, understand, change and that is because we are a work in progress. So, for me my biggest goal has been to know myself more than anyone else! Why is it important to know ourselves more than anyone else?
We are able to identify our triggers and implement tools to help us work through them.
We know our goals so it allows us to prioritize what our focus should be on.
We know our values and we align opportunities and people that fit with those values. This helps us to avoid people and situations that move us further away from what is best for us.
It allows us to monitor our thoughts and
Self-acceptance is truly embracing who you are. This means everything in you is included. Even your quirks, flaws, and weaknesses.
You doubt yourself less because you know yourself more.
You willingly stand up for yourself and embrace your potential and abilities.
Your stories and abilities are unique to you, and you begin to share them more.
It allows you to make the right choices for you!
It helps you to understand others better
There are so many people in the world telling us what we can do or should be doing. But the reality is we cannot work on every area of our life at once. We need to learn to prioritize and identify what is most important to take us from A to B to C and so on. Knowing ourselves more than anyone else gives us the freedom to live our lives for us. To do what we know is best for us because we know our goals, what we need to work on, who is important in our lives, what brings us joy, what we need to remove, what we value in ourselves and the world, what we need to remove and create a life that is in line with the person we were destined to be. Nothing we do is an overnight process but an ongoing one.

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