Project Based Self Discovery
A
great way to learn about yourself is to blog your way through a project. A
recent popular film, showed a woman blogging her way through her project to
cook a recipe every day from a cookbook written by a celebrity cook. As she
blogged her thoughts, reactions, successes, and failures each day as she wrote
her blog, not only did she amass a great number of readers following her
adventure, she learned much about her
self and her partner.
Blog and look back
Choose
a project you have wanted to do for a while. Assemble all the resources you
need to complete the project and create a blog online to record your efforts
and your thoughts about them. If you prefer, use an offline journal you can
write in. Reflecting is an important part of the road to self-discovery.
Blogging or journaling is about keeping a
diary as a place to reflect on your thoughts, feelings and successes. As you
look back on it in the future, not only will you learn a lot about yourself, it
will also be a lovely way to remember the project, especially if you add photos
to it regularly throughout the project.
Take time to write and use honest words
As
you complete your project every day, take time to write down what you did,
whether you were happy with your achievement, what you felt about you did and
what difficulties you faced. Write down any solutions you created for the
difficulties and how well they worked for you. Don’t be afraid of using honest
words, especially if the blog or journal is for your eyes only. This is the
place you can be truly your self and express yourself without fear of rejection
or ridicule.
As
you work on your project, try to experience a sense of excitement that this
project so long put off is finally being given priority in your life. Then
write how you feel about the things you did today and how satisfied you were
with your efforts. Write about everything, you can think of that relates to the
project... You may choose to write about whether you put felt some parts of the
project were too difficult, or maybe very self-satisfying. Perhaps you realized
that interruptions to your focus make you irritable.
The
lessons we learn as we complete this project and journal our responses, will be
invaluable tools for identifying our personal strengths and weaknesses.
Think of yourself achieving your dreams
Changing yourself perception and feeling good about yourself
