situations. You make everybody wait on you. It’s like you have to be just that much more important than the rest of us.” In the days that followed, Brad paid close attention to his own actions. For years, he knew, people had been annoyed at his chronic lateness. He hadn’t realized how consistently tardy he was or what an imposition it put on those around him, including those who really liked him. In asking himself why he was chronically late, Brad began to get in touch with negative feelings about his job and his life and rec- ognized he was passively afflicting others by his lateness, which did nothing to ad- dress the underlying things that distressed him. As he became fully aware of how he was negatively impacting others and why he was acting as he did, he found it natural to grow into being a very prompt person.


So How Do I Get Acquainted with Myself? There are actually a number of suitable


answers to this question. It’s up to you to determine which is most suitable (and suc- cessful) for you. In reverse order of priority, here are a few: life coaches, counselors and other professional therapists; objective and trustworthy supervisors, mentors and advisors (trustworthy is the key word here; you want to speak to someone who knows


you and wants what is best for you); long- time friends and family members who have demonstrated their wisdom and insight; and finally, self-examination. Self-exami- nation is the first step we always take. If you think about it, all these suggested re- sources are simply aids to self-examination. If you don’t grasp the truth of what an advi- sor reveals to you about yourself, you can’t put it to much use. Ultimately each of these helpers listed should have one intent: to help you recognize things about yourself of which you were not clearly aware. Since we all start with self-examina-


tion anyway, let’s make a short list of ques- tions that you can ask yourself that may begin your year-long initiation into fuller self-awareness:


• If there is something I want to change about myself and it can be changed but I haven’t changed it, what purpose is it serving for me or someone else?


• Have I picked up bad habits all on my own, or did I learn or inherit them from someone else?


• If every bad habit has a purpose, what’s the purpose of mine?


• What’s the best thing that can happen if I make the changes I want to make?


• What will I lose if I make those chang- es?


• Who will be impacted by my success- ful resolution?


• If I made a list of the unfinished busi- ness of my life, what would be on it?


This little list focuses on resolutions


and it’s truly only a first step in helping you get to know yourself. Spending a year dis- covering the history, motives and possi- bilities surrounding your personal habits is just the beginning of a splendid, rewarding, lifelong journey of self-discovery.


Dr. Mike Simpson, a “third generation” Family Systems practitioner, is the founder of Fix Your Family and a Family Wellness Coach who has used Family Systems to work with individuals and groups for the past 25 years. The author of the book Fix Your Family, he can be contacted through his website (fixyourfamily.org), email (1fixyourfamily@gmail.com) or phone 336 257-9276. See ad on page 32.


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