What does being your best self even mean?
In this episode we discuss what this popular personal development phrase means and why who you are now and who you are in the future is always going to be your best self.
If you want to learn more about why you are your best you, then this episode is for you!
Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode:
- Learn why the phrase, “Be your best self”, is used in personal development.
- Discover the drawbacks of this phrase.
- Understand the key takeaways from this episode.
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Episode Highlights
Why Is This Phrase Used In Personal Development?
- It is central to the idea of personal development.
- Striving to be your best self is a desire and goal to continuously work towards.
- Because you have goals you want to achieve, you have to become a better version of you in order to attain them.
What Are The Drawbacks Of This Phrase?
- Always striving to be your best self is an endless chase.
- There is room for pain, disappointment, and frustration.
- It’s an endless cycle of pushing the goal line further and further which ultimately leads to disappointment.
- The endless chase of being your best self will lead to an increase of expectations.
- Once the goal is achieved, people often forget to enjoy their accomplishment. They are already looking forward to what to achieve next.
What Are The Key Takeaways?
- Who you are now will always be you.
- Take the time to enjoy achieving your goals, and be happy about what you have done.
- Humans have flaws, and no version of you will ever be flawless.
- Accept who you are now and everything will feel like an accomplishment.
- Remember to love yourself, and know that you deserve to love yourself.
5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode
“It’s a desire and a goal that we just casually throw out”.
“This idea that, the you who exists now is not the you who can accomplish x,y,z goal, and the reason that we go on a journey in order to accomplish a goal, is to become that version of ourselves”.
“I think that it can lead to an endless chase”.
“You, who you are now will always be you”.
“When you aim high and you miss, you don’t notice the success of having landed on the moon, you notice the failure of missing the stars”.
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