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Crack Your Own Identity Code And Achieve A Successful Life On Your Own Terms
With all warnings and worry about identity-theft and how to protect yourself, it came to me that nobody could truly steal your "Identity." I am not downplaying the seriousness of the crime of stealing a person's credit cards, bank info, and so on. It can make your life a living hell and you should take steps to protect that information. I am referring to that whole thing that makes you, well... You. Absolutely no one can steal that away from you.
But here's the rub - do you know who you truly are and what you are capable of accomplishing in your life? Are you living your best life? As the wonder of serendipity would have it, just when I was pondering the question of identity and what that really means, a fellow coach recommended a book that has had a huge impact in introducing me to, well... Me.
The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World by Larry Ackerman is that book. With over 20 years of experience in helping organizations and individuals identify their purpose, the author discovered the Laws of Identity and the 8 Essential Questions that will help you crack your own identity code.
But beware; Ackerman starts out by blowing the myth of personal freedom--that you can be whatever you want to be in life--clean out of the water. What? But we've always been told and believed we could be anything we wanted to be if we would just choose, work hard, apply ourselves and so on.
This is what he has to say about that:
"The myth of personal freedom--the idea that you are at liberty to pick whatever path in life you want--is the unspoken agony of the modern person. It ignores the fact that life has order, and that order bears heavily upon your choices--on what makes sense to do with the time you have. The good news is that although you can't be anything you want to be, you have more potential than you know."
He goes on to say that this life order is in our identity code, which, much like our biological or genetic code, is born into each of us providing a complete and unique map of how we are designed to function. This is not fatalism and we are not destined for our lives to turn out a certain way no matter what we do. It is the opposite. We can obtain genuine freedom in knowing who we are and what our potential is so that we may act on this knowledge to create truly authentic, happy lives for ourselves.
This book takes you through the Identity Mapping process, which is a series of exercises to help you answer the following eight questions:
1. Who am I?
2. What makes me special?
3. Is there a pattern to my life?
4. Where am I going?
5. What is my gift?
6. Who can I trust?
7. What is my message?
8. Will my life be rich?
Just imagine the rich life that could unfold for you in discovering the answers to these eight questions. Enjoy the journey.
"I am what I am and that's all that I am." --Popeye
But here's the rub - do you know who you truly are and what you are capable of accomplishing in your life? Are you living your best life? As the wonder of serendipity would have it, just when I was pondering the question of identity and what that really means, a fellow coach recommended a book that has had a huge impact in introducing me to, well... Me.
The Identity Code: The 8 Essential Questions for Finding Your Purpose and Place in the World by Larry Ackerman is that book. With over 20 years of experience in helping organizations and individuals identify their purpose, the author discovered the Laws of Identity and the 8 Essential Questions that will help you crack your own identity code.
But beware; Ackerman starts out by blowing the myth of personal freedom--that you can be whatever you want to be in life--clean out of the water. What? But we've always been told and believed we could be anything we wanted to be if we would just choose, work hard, apply ourselves and so on.
This is what he has to say about that:
"The myth of personal freedom--the idea that you are at liberty to pick whatever path in life you want--is the unspoken agony of the modern person. It ignores the fact that life has order, and that order bears heavily upon your choices--on what makes sense to do with the time you have. The good news is that although you can't be anything you want to be, you have more potential than you know."
He goes on to say that this life order is in our identity code, which, much like our biological or genetic code, is born into each of us providing a complete and unique map of how we are designed to function. This is not fatalism and we are not destined for our lives to turn out a certain way no matter what we do. It is the opposite. We can obtain genuine freedom in knowing who we are and what our potential is so that we may act on this knowledge to create truly authentic, happy lives for ourselves.
This book takes you through the Identity Mapping process, which is a series of exercises to help you answer the following eight questions:
1. Who am I?
2. What makes me special?
3. Is there a pattern to my life?
4. Where am I going?
5. What is my gift?
6. Who can I trust?
7. What is my message?
8. Will my life be rich?
Just imagine the rich life that could unfold for you in discovering the answers to these eight questions. Enjoy the journey.
"I am what I am and that's all that I am." --Popeye