Self-Evaluation: Saving Your Person

CHAPTER 2 – SELF-EVALUATION: REDISCOVERING YOUR INNER PERSON

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you will discover will be wonderful. What you will discover is yourself.”

— Alan Alda, American actor, director, screenwriter, and author

The motives and processes of self-evaluation are to the drive facilitating your intents of improving your personality (undergoing self-enhancement processes), and knowing more and deeper about your inner person (self-verification processes).

Self-evaluation enables you to engage yourself in the process of monitoring and identifying certain discrepancies or divergences in your performance to change, as well as setting objectives for change. Moreover,

Else, depression and failure become inevitable without evaluating and knowing properly yourself.

DEFINING YOUR JOYS & PRIORITIES

Along the process of self-evaluation, you begin to ask yourself what matters most to you, or what delivers much importance in your life. Usually, there arises a dilemma for you to address— the discrepancies between what your inner self truly feels and what the rationale of everyone around you says it to be right and proper.

As a resolve, self-evaluation teaches you to know about your ultimate joys and top priorities in life. Foremost, it indulges you towards refocusing yourself about what you really love or like to do because doing what you love invokes your true person and your real joys.

Nevertheless, such circumstances never compose your whole being; but rather, they reveal your inner person. When executing your priorities or doing what you really love and like to do, you always experience joy and pleasure with which you tend increasing your motivations of doing such

In all honesty, it is the satisfaction and rewards you gain after doing the thing well.

However, you know better that accomplishing things well means going the extra mile that sometimes lead you to the proverbial late nights. You may really love what you do 99% of the time, but there always seems headed along the way a number of related tasks, which are never enjoyable doing or you simply abhor.

This somehow debunks the well-meaning sentiment, “Do what you love and you will never work another day in your life.” Somehow, it can really be guilt inducing and discouraging when doing what you love, yet, finding yourself feeling drained by the day’s end.

Worry not though, it is certainly natural loving your work, yet, perceiving it like hard labor Trust yourself, you are not alone. Nothing is always perfect, even your job or career! Sure enough, even professional wine taste testing entails volumes of paperwork that testers would rather shy away dealing on it. There is always a catch, a caveat!

Thus, if you seem losing your motivation and your will to proceed with what you do, ask yourself in all honesty— “am I doing what I really love to do?” If your inner critic responds on the negative, then refocus yourself as much and as soon as