Just like you are not your job, your looks, or the shoes that you are wearing every day or on special occasions when you want to get fancy, you are not your ideas.
Way too often, most people tend to believe that the ideas they have made them who they are, and yet this is only partially true or, to put it better, it is actually the other way around.
The ideas they have today are a reflection of who they have been so far and the ideas they've got before made them who they are right now, in a kind of endless virtuous (or sometimes vicious) circle.
[Ideas can nurture a virtuous circle
or a vicious one. Pick your ideas very carefully]
Breaking such a circle means breaking the strong emotional attachment some people have to ideas that don't represent any longer who they are today and that are still around just because they have never been tested through a reality check in months or even years.
Those ideas belong to the past, and the past has nothing to do with the future.
More often than not, we tend to think that since we spent years with some kind of ideas, those will provide the basis for our future ideas as well.
This is true only as long as we want this to be true, and not a second longer than that.
You are not your ideas. You are not made by your ideas.
You make your ideas, and it would be useful to pick the ones that can help you move forward, instead of backward.
Coaching question of the day:
"Which ideas will help you move forward?"
Tags: Coaching question, Self-coaching, Self-awareness, Identity, Thinking forward
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