God knows exactly who you are. This includes all past, present, and future versions of yourself. But you don’t know everything about yourself. God intends for you to discover who you are.
Here are some practical steps so you can accelerate your growth and become all God made you to be. Try doing one of these a day for about 20 minutes.
- Activate Your Present into Greater Awareness
- Write in a journal to experience yourself from the outside
- Spend time in quiet meditation, allowing your thoughts to move freely from one to the next
- Talk to a close friend who listens well, deposit your thoughts with them
- Pray your thoughts, feelings, and desires to God, make sure he knows what’s on your heart
- Take self-discovery quizzes such MBTI (for example: 16personalities.com)
- Review your dreams for insights into your desires and struggles
- Review Your Experiences
- Reflect on what happened to you today
- Reflect on the dreams you had last night
- Reflect on how your life is different in the past year
- Review your life in years or decades
- Plan Your Future
- Assess which of your desires align with who you are vs who others expect you to be
- Select some part of you that you want to focus on developing further
- Look forward in various time frames (1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years)
- Select goals to accomplish