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

[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.