What you see is what you will be. Now why get your head around that phrase, what you see is what you will be. And by that I mean the way you see your life, the way you see yourself will determine the kind of person you become. And in this first full module, where we're dealing with the first of six key areas of perspective, I want to focus in on you. You need a right perspective toward yourself. And the key word for that is affirming.

Because the way you see yourself will become the kind of person you live out. And I want you to see yourself as the right kind of person. In fact, I want to see yourself as a masterpiece. a work of art, because that's what you are. I'm a firm believer in what the Apostle Paul talks about in Ephesians chapter two, when he says you are God's workmanship or you are God's masterpiece, created for good works, that you would walk in them. In other words, you were created, I believe, to live a life that expresses a masterpiece.

I want you to think of a work of art that you love, or I want you to think of a beautiful Symphony. Think of something that you consider a masterpiece and realize that's what you're to become. And I want you to get that in your mind that you're not only to become a masterpiece, but you're to unleash your masterpiece in the world around you and the lives of your friends and your family and your your occupation and your culture at large. I want you to catch that vision because the perspective you have toward yourself needs to be one of affirming yourself to become the masterpiece that we were created to become. So in this introductory session in this module, we're going to focus in on the whole concept of what it means to affirm yourself. And we're going to go down several paths to do that we're going to have multiple videos, we're going to have multiple documents, we're gonna have a number of links to send you to, to help you understand the concept of who you are and how you can become the right kind of person and how you can affirm yourself the right way.

Fundamentally, what we're trying to get done here is to help you understand that you're a person filled with incredible strengths and uniquenesses and also a person who's filled with a lot of challenges and difficulties and, and soft spots as I like to call them. So think of the two rails of a train track. You want to keep them in in, keep them intention and keep them in alignment. If the train station On the train track, it's going to make a lot of headway. If it jumps off the train track, it's going to lose its traction. And in fact, it's gonna, it's gonna fall apart and crash.

And so what you want to do is live your life when it comes to your perspective towards yourself around maximizing leveraging your strengths, and then also learning how to mitigate and understand and become aware of and deal appropriately with your weaknesses. If you go to one extreme of just your strengths, you'll become an arrogant person, you will become a person who is full of themselves. If you go to the other extreme and focusing on your weaknesses, you will become a person who is ineffective and inefficient, and you'll have a lower view of yourself and you ought to have you need the Balanced View, but maximizing leveraging your strengths and then mitigating and deal appropriately with your weaknesses. So in this session, we're going to do a number of things. We're going to spend some time helping you practice self discovery, one of the key element have what's called emotional intelligence today, which is more important on the job, by the way, than intellectual intelligence is the ability to understand and develop yourself intra personal growth, and to build right relationships, interpersonal relationships, interpersonal skills, those two make up emotional quotient.

What I want to help you do in this session is how to develop the right perspective toward yourself beginning with self awareness. So we're going to talk about self awareness and I'm going to introduce you to the Jia Hari window, which is a tool that we often use to help people understand where they are so they can understand the way they see themselves, or their strengths and weaknesses they may see and may not see. And to understand how others see them. You'll see we have four quadrants in johari window, and we're going to unpack that and one of our sessions. And then after we've done that, we're going to start working through the process of understanding your particular strengths because the reality is you have a core set of skills or strengths. And I'm going to help you develop a number of tools to get there but the major one is to understand your pegs.

Now the pegs means think about putting a round peg in a square hole, it doesn't work does it it just will never fit. Instead, you want to put a round peg in a round hole. That's the only way it can fit. So I want you to understand your pegs you have them and peg stand for your passions, your expertise, your gifts. And the way you deal with life. Your your S is your styles, your personality style, your leadership style, your communication style.

We won't go deeply here but I want you to begin a preliminary analysis of your pigs. passions, expertise, gifts and style. And that'll help you begin to understand where you are when it comes to your strengths. And then we'll unpack some personality strengths and recommend some tools and resources for you to go further and study and have an analysis of yourself and have others help analyze you too. So again, you can be sure you're understanding who you are uniquely your specialness. And then after that, we're going to talk about your soft spots or your weaknesses and how you address those.

And there we're going to touch on the need for you first, to be open and aware to your weaknesses and we're going to help you address those. We're going to talk about humility and the importance of humility, and how we live with a sense of humility. If we're living the right kind of life. We're going to address as well the whole concept of constant personal growth so you're intentionally proactively growing personally to develop your strengths and to mitigate your weaknesses but being open to those and then We're also going to be dealing in that particular session with what it means to be a person who's living with weaknesses in a way that is not encumbering you, but actually helping you grow and develop and actually how to leverage your weaknesses in openness and transparency and authenticity in an appropriate way, I think you're gonna find that to be extremely helpful.

Well, we're beginning the process now. So remember the point of this particular session that is a right perspective toward self by affirming, that's our first area and our first principle of perspective, learning to affirm yourself by dealing with your soft spots, and then dealing with your strengths and doing those in a balanced way based on the train track metaphor. So this is going to be an exciting process. And this is going to be foundational to all the other five areas total of six that we're going to be addressing and giving you tools and resources for each one. So here's what I want. I want you to do, I want you to go through what we've just talked about in this video.

And I want you to start thinking particularly of this, what are my uniquenesses? And my strength? Just start thinking about that. And then secondly, what are my areas of soft spots? Where do I need to grow and develop? And hey, feel free to begin to ask some of your friends or family or loved ones, even co workers, areas where you can grow and develop in your strengths and your soft spots and begin the process of self analysis, because that's going to be key to what we're doing going forward.

As always journal. If you're as part of the Facebook group, which I hope you are, we're going to be talking about that we're going to be interacting on that I'll be doing some Facebook Live coaching on that our team will be responding to you helping you understand as well as the group but interacting together on these issues and we'll be presenting some more resources for you there but you get the point. We want you to be able to have a Right perspective towards self by affirming You ready? Let's begin this