Identity: Exercise #2

You've all done They'll all fall: Identity: Exercise #1? Good. (If you have not done it yet, go back and do exercise #1. Then wait a day before reading the below - you want your mind to clear.)


Here's exercise #2:

We all have things we want to have done during our life. I'd like to have lived in a different country, I'd like to write a book, I'd like to have kids, I'd like to ...

Write out a list of some of the things you want to have done during your life. Spend at least five minutes; continute as long as it's fun.





And here's the explanation for the previous exercise (exercise #1):

As I said, everybody has an ideal self, a person they strive to be. And you will never be able to fully define that ideal self. Starting to define it gives it more shape, adds thoughts to each aspect, and is a basis for starting to move towards being that ideal self.

Going through that exercise, you probably found some aspects that are in conflict with each other. We'll resolve these and give you more flexibility in a later exercise; for now, just let them be, and be happy that you know a bit more about yourself, and can be a trifle more you every day.