Too often in life we have a tendency to discount our own potential. It is often much easier to recognize other people\u2019s talents and abilities than it is to see our own. But there is\u00a0 a trick you can use to help yourself rise to the level of person you want to become \u2013 some call it the \u201cfake it til you make it principle\u201d but I think a much better way to describe it is this:<\/p>\n
\u201cBy doing what you would do if you were exactly the person you\u2019d like to be, you\u2019ll ultimately become that person.\u201d<\/span> \u2013 Brian Tracy<\/p>\n The way you do it is to figure out the person or people you look up to the most. Make a list of the qualities those people have that you most admire. Then use that to help you form a description of exactly the person you yourself would like to become. Ask yourself what the things that this person you want to become would do – What are the habits they would have? How would they treat others? What things would they accomplish? Etc.\u00a0 The answer to those questions will help you write up the description of exactly the person you would like to become.<\/p>\n Then as you move forward each day start to do all the things that person you want to become would do. Every time you find yourself in difficult circumstances or facing challenges ask yourself \u201cWhat would the person I\u2019d like to become do in this situation?\u201d and then do that.<\/p>\n With every day that passes you will start to see that you are, in fact, becoming exactly that person that you most want to be.<\/p>\n That trick has helped me more than I could ever explain. Whenever I sit down to make a goal poster I think to myself, \u201cWhat would the person I want to become have on her goal poster?\u201d \u00a0And when I am dealing with difficult things in my life I ask myself \u201cHow would the person I want to be handle this?\u201d Trust me, it works\u2026it truly works\u2026Try it!<\/p>\n Have an amazing day everyone!<\/p>\n ~Amy Rees Anderson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Too often in life we have a tendency to discount our own potential. It is often much easier to recognize other people\u2019s talents and abilities than it is to see our own. But there is\u00a0 a trick you can use to help yourself rise to the level of person you want to become \u2013 some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[738,168,395,501,500,46,445,1089,163,3570,15110,15106,15105,15108,792,366,244,55,2407,15107,27,112,98,15109,15111,4736,15104,14971],"class_list":["post-8476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-abilities","tag-adversity","tag-amy-rees-anderson","tag-appreciate","tag-appreciation","tag-attitude","tag-brian-tracy","tag-circumstance","tag-courage","tag-description","tag-difficult-circumstance","tag-discount-our-potential","tag-exactly-the-person-youd-like-to-be","tag-fake-it-til-you-make-it","tag-gifts","tag-goal-poster","tag-grateful","tag-happiness","tag-qualities","tag-recognize-other-peoples-talents","tag-self-confidence","tag-self-improvement","tag-talent","tag-the-person-i-want-to-be","tag-the-person-id-like-to-be","tag-trick","tag-what-would-jesus-do","tag-what-would-you-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8476"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8478,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8476\/revisions\/8478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amyreesanderson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}