January 2019
Beginner
240 pages
4h 44m
English
Content preview from The Power of Understanding Yourself
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Extracting Me Worksheet
LOCUS OF CONTROL: BEING ACCOUNTABLE FOR ME
Consider an example in your life that reflects your use of an external locus of control that contributed to stress. List it and ask yourself the following:
- Why have I chosen not to manifest an internal locus of control on this issue?
- If I were to commit to one action that might positively affect this situation, what would it be?
- Am I ready to do that? If not now, why?
- Upon taking an internal locus of control action, how did this situation change?
- Did this outcome reduce my stress? Improve the situation? Why or why not?
THE CRUSH: THE CORE IDEOLOGY OF ME
Identifying Inputs
- In what ways did my parents contribute to who I am today? Siblings? Friends?
- What memorable childhood events or experiences have had a lasting impact on me?
- What successes in my past have made me the proudest? Why?
- What failures have I experienced that left a lasting impression? Why?
- What individuals have served as mentors to me and why?
- What characteristics in others are most inspiring to me? Why?
- What characteristics in others irritate me the most? Why?
- What are my happiest memories?
- What are my saddest memories?
- If I could change one thing about my childhood, what would it be? Why?
Identifying Outputs
List your top five core values and define each.
Defining Your Core Ideology
Using the definitions from your five preceding core ...