Because I'm Pondering This Question Myself at the Moment. . .

[qos]

What do you look like in your own mind when you take yourself to the Nth degree? All your potential, all your strengths, your talents, your passions realized and lived fully?

Is there an archetypal shorthand that conveys most of it?
Or do you find yourself writing a list of characteristics, or a narrative?

I'm working on this at the moment, and paying close attention to how much I can believe in the image I come up with. So far, I'm dismayed by how difficult it is to believe in her/me, how hard it is to ascribe certain perfectly achievable qualities to this image of myself.

I have never been ambitious.
I am slowly building a sense of ambition to become more than I am today.
I am becoming hungry for my own best self.
I want to visualize and long for and passionately pursue that best self until we are truly one, until there is only me, living my best life.

Comments

[a-belletrist.livejournal.com]

I've never even tried to look at myself in that light, so I have no idea what the shape of me would be ... what I would hold inside of that shape.

Not entirely true, there are some things I know, but for the most part, never really thought about extrapolating out that far.

I'm also not terribly ambitious (hence my career choices have been more for learning and experiential pursuit). I used to be, in some ways, but, as I added years, other things took the place of (or erased) ambition.

My own thoughts were chasing around a similar question, though, last night ... which is what I finally settled in to do (abortively so, but that's a different matter). I'm hoping to post something about it later, if there's time.

If you feel like sharing, I'd love to hear how you begin to believe in what you see when you look at your best self.

[tx-cronopio.livejournal.com]

What do you look like in your own mind when you take yourself to the Nth degree? All your potential, all your strengths, your talents, your passions realized and lived fully?


I've warned you before about hitting my buttons...:)

[9thmoon.livejournal.com]

I was talking with a longtime friend about this yesterday. The difference between me and SuperMe. I came to the conclusion that it's damaging to try to be SuperMe all the time. You've given me another perspective to work with.

I know this isn't the type of feedback you were looking for. I'm sorry.

[qos.livejournal.com]

If I wasn't interested in alternate perspectives, I wouldn't have posted. :-)

You make a good point, actually: the importance of balancing stretching to achieve/become more of what you can be with not trying to be Wonder Woman all the time.

Some people strive all the time and need to cut themselves some slack. Some of us need to stop slacking off.