What it means to be “the best version of you.”

Hello there, and thank you for joining me today.

I’m so excited to speak with you on this podcast.

We are going to talk about being the best version of yourself.

That phrase is used in awful lot. Maybe it’s kind of ambiguous. Kind of vague.

So, we’ll talk about a couple of ways we can interpret that statement and come up with some steps you can take toward that goal.

Have you ever heard of this statement Become the best version of yourself? It seems to be used more and more today.

I heard it from a leader at church.

I’ve heard it from life coaches and have heard some say that this is the purpose of life.

I probably heard it from a lot of my teachers, and I’ve heard some say this is the purpose of life. To be a better version of you, or to be better tomorrow than you were today. Better today than you were yesterday. Just be a little bit better.

You don’t need to be perfect. But, if you’re always making little progress, there you go.

My 6th grade teacher, Diane Tiessen always said, “If it is to be, it is up to me.” By saying that, I think she meant that same idea. That we must be alert and take action in our own lives, and that we are the person who will make  all the difference in bringing our thoughts to into reality, and in getting things done.

What do you think it actually means to become the best version of yourself? And, how do we become the best version of ourselves?

First, let’s begin with what it means.

The first possibility, is that it means that we each continually grow and develop, becoming better than we were in the past, in all areas of our lives. It isn’t a suggestion that we perform at 100% capacity all day, every day. Frankly, that would be exhausting, right? But we seek to generally become a little better incrementally, every day.

Every human being on earth has unique traits. You do. I do. My neighbors too. My family members do. In fact, if you ever look at your family members, it’s pretty obvious we are all totally unique. There might be one trait in common with some other extended family member, but no two family members are exactly alike. Right?

So we all have internal traits like thoughts dreams dispositions attitudes personalities some of our traits are physical like maybe we look a certain way. We have certain height, hair color, etc. We might have certain abilities and skills. We each have values that we uniquely embrace. Those concepts we care most about. We also have character strengths.

If you want to do a character strengths inventory and see what comes out for you, I have a free link on my website, Dr. B coach.com, under the “free tools” page to the VIA Character Strengths Inventory. You’re welcome to stop by and check it out. It’s wonderful. Very useful.

So, we all have character strengths. And, they come in a different combination for each of us.

We have specific communication styles.

We have ways that we perceive things and process information.

And we all learn in different ways. For example, some of us learn by seeing things, observing things, reading things. Others actually learn by doing them physically--like kinesthetic learners. Some of us learn from others’ experience, and yet other people have to learn by doing it themselves. And that’s just the only way they will learn anything.

So, we are all very different in all of these ways.

And the many different traits within your and which comprise who you are show up in us as a unique combination that make you YOU.

And who you are right now is someone amazing and complete, right as you are.