Live Your Truth and Grow Your Self-Worth

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When building a profitable practice, you must walk in your purpose. You must be your authentic self. You must live your truth. Living a happy life is everyone’s goal. Who doesn’t want to feel good about themselves? And yet so many of us live a life of self-doubt, feeling undeserving or incapable, or wishing we were walking another path. However, living a happy life and being a happy person is a matter of how you perceive yourself and your place in the world.

Self-knowledge is the key to living a happy life

And that means living your truth, not other people’s truth, or what society tells you is your truth. You can think yourself happy by taking action, being honest about yourself, your patterns of thinking, and being open to your capacity to change. Socrates famously said that “the unexamined life is not worth limiting.” An ongoing process of self-analysis and self-examination leading to greater understanding self-knowledge, is also the basis for most of the world’s religions and belief systems for a good reason.

Know thyself

If you don’t know who you are, you’re not your true self in the world. If this is the case, you’re living a passive life, reacting to whatever comes along instead of taking control. Living unconsciously like this, is living half asleep. And if you’re half asleep, you can’t be your best you. Living an authentic life does not mean going off the grid. It does mean a daily practice of being honest about how you’re feeling and why. And reminding yourself that you are in control of how you feel. It means being clear about what your values and beliefs are. What rules you live your life by. Are your values yours, or have you absorbed them from other people in your life? Do they still fit with the life you want to lead?

Here are five steps to living a more authentic life:

1. Be clear about how you want your life to be right now, and where you want to go. Understand and live by your values and beliefs.

2. Be aware of yourself and how you react and interact with other people, situations, events, and the world.

3. Set and maintain conscious barriers. Be clear in your mind and be at peace with what you can and cannot control.

4. Be okay with imperfection in yourself and others. Be objective about your weaknesses so that you can improve upon them without letting them get you down.

5. Be kind and forgiving to yourself and others. Be compassionate. Make an agreement not to judge or blame yourself or others.

Living your truth means taking responsibility for your life and building a deep self-knowledge that will ultimately lead to contentment and happiness.

I am Dr. Hassan, Board-Certified Physiatrist and Independent Practice Owner. I help physiatrists start and grow their own independent practice so that they can achieve financial independence and live without limits. Please go to businessofrehab.com/contractnegotiations to pick up the free guide to help you negotiate the contract of your dreams.

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