If you are like most people you have searched and searched for an identity for yourself.  The question is why due you search for an identity when you already have one. 

 Now you might not understand what this means so lets take a look. 

 Do you watch things on TV, read articles and listen to music and think I need to be more like that.  If so you are on the right track to finding yourself but the one place you aren’t looking is at yourself.

 While you take in all of this external stimulus and try to piece together your own identity you are overlooking the qualities that make you and always have made you.

 To find your identity you need to take a deep look inside and find the characteristics which stand out for you.  While searching for these characteristics just think of what friends say you are and make a list. For example, if you are outspoken, if you are quit and so forth.  By doing this you have found your identity at the present time.

 Now comes the hard part, use them to your advantage.  What this means is be proud of who you are and the traits you possess.  If you are proud of who you are and the traits you possess your confidence will go up and you will begin to believe in what you are trying to accomplish. 

 By showing the new found confidence in who you are you won’t make everyone happy and might actually offend the occasional person.  Offending people is going to happen but as long as you are you then who cares, you are the only person you need to answer to, besides more times than not if you are yourself people are going to appreciate your views and opinion more.

 So take some action find your personality traits and use them to your advantage. 

To your Success

 Blaine