In order to become authentic I feel it is important to invest time and effort into creating a mission statement. This will be the blue print for what you wish to achieve in your life. It will also be an essential tool for making decisions. Simply ask the question: “Will this move me toward achieving my mission or will it move me away from achieving my mission?”

Once you start living according to your mission you may want to leverage your efforts by learning how to ask for what you want. Ask for help, ask for support, ask for money, ask for a cookie. Ask for what gets you closer to achieving your mission.

A book I strongly recommend is The Aladdin Factor by Jack Canfield. It is a powerful lesson on how to get things done, improve your life and move toward achieving your goals. The bottom line is that you need to learn to simply ask for what you want!

Jack Canfield states in the introduction that there are five major barriers to asking for what you want:

1. Ignorance of not knowing you can ask for what you want and ignorance of how simple it can be to do so.

2. Limiting and inaccurate beliefs (ex. I’ll look stupid if I ask for help in understanding a concept in a class.)

3. Fear

4. Low self-esteem

5. Pride

Don’t trust me about the helpfulness of this book. Check it out from the library. I’m confident you’ll walk away from the reading with something useful, maybe even life changing.

Cheers,

Dave