Look in the mirror that’s the real you

While all the experts will tell you that achievement of just about anything is in your grasp, that all you have to do is want it enough, no one explains that you have to understand what you are working with. So you could be a concert pianist, county cricketer, writer of business books. It’s easy peasy, they suggest. Just dream it and do it.
That is what I say. Let’s not underestimate this rise to glory.
And without the absolute certainty of who you are, what you are, your pluses and minuses, and your hopes and fears, you really aren’t going to get very far.

Getting to know you, getting to know all about you

Unless we work at knowing who we really are and what we could really do, we are unlikely to head in the right direction. But if we do work ourselves out and can say with confidence “this is the real me” then we are in great shape to create a new and upward-looking career. Self-knowledge is the single most powerful tool for achieving the ideal job and career path that is right for you, not for that image of yourself that you’d like to have.
In simple terms, knowing the raw materials you’ve got to work with in “making it happen” for your career is the starting point. Everything else is fantasy. So you have to start by forensically testing who and what you are, and who you could be and who you are unlikely to be (however much you might want to be that ideal).
But this isn’t easy. It needs you to work hard, dispassionately, and with brutal honesty. It might even prove a little uncomfortable. Self-knowledge is the single most powerful tool.