Some blogs are long diatribes of my personal opinion, others are book reviews, while I occasionally share some wisdom that I’ve learned from personal experience. This blog will be a little different. I’m going to take some information directly out of a book and ask you to do a self-evaluation.
In Napoleon Hill’s classic book, “Think and Grow Rich,” he covers several principles about taking a burning internal desire and turning it into it’s physical equivalent. While I don’t agree with all of his premises or belief systems (it’s what I would call an “80/20 book” – I might agree with 80% of it and cross out 20% of it), the author does provide some very valuable thinking points and I would like to share one of those with you today.
Many of us understand the value of self-evaluation, but don’t know where to begin. Or if we practice self-evaluation, we evaluate ourselves by using ourselves as the standard… huh? We need some questions or a guide to bring us to a new perspective. Here are several direct questions that he provides from his book; I will create a few blogs out of his questions, so you can have some practice time in front of the physical, mental, and spiritual “mirror”:
1 Do you complain often of “feeling bad,” and if so, what is the cause?
2 Do you find fault with other people at the slightest provocation?
3 Do you frequently find mistakes in your work, and if so, why?
4 Are you sarcastic and offensive in your conversation?
5 Do you deliberately avoid the association of anyone, and if so, why?
6 Does life seem futile and the future hopeless to you? If so, why?
7 Do you like your occupation? If not, why?
8 Do you often feel self-pity, and if so, why?
9 Are you envious of those who excel more than you?
10 To which do you devote most time – thinking of success or of failure?
Just a thought… Happy Mirror Time
