Thinking Outside the YOU box

We all have perceptions of ourselves, qualities we think we possess and are a part of us that will never change. Perhaps we see ourselves as the nervous type, a couch potato, an athlete, an artist, a smoker. Whatever views you have of yourself help to pin you down, to keep you in one place, where personal growth would be impossible to achieve. We should "never say never" and not pigeon-hole ourselves into a corner. Think outside the "you" box. If you see yourself as a couch potato, you most likely, like me, would think that working out is something you would never want to participate in unless you were forced to. I tend to think I'd drop dead just putting on work out clothes! It's a view I have of myself, as that person who is just too busy reading to consider exercise. Maybe I should think outside the view of myself that I have created. I wonder if I could do it.

I once saw myself as a smoker, I thought of that little white stick as an extension of myself, that it would always be there. Well, it's just about 12 years now, and I haven't even wanted one, even on my worst days...so there goes that theory! Perhaps it can be the same with other things. Maybe I can change my own view of myself, thus allowing for personal growth.

Hmm.....now this is food for thought!