Week 3: Self Identity/Self Awareness - Loving Your Current Self

The past two weeks have been dedicated to devising a proper eating, sleeping and exercising schedule, as well as establishing financial goals. This week I am focusing on Self Identity and I am very excited about it! Self Identity to me is shedding the layers from years past and breaking out of the mold that people in your life place on you depending on when they met you.High School friends, parents and college friends view you in a certain way based on your past experience together and have difficulty seeing you differently as you evolve. Self Identity is loving your current self and letting go of the past. This week will be filled with identifying ways to be OK with where I am right now and who I am right now.I was lucky enough to spend last weekend in beautiful Wilmington, Delaware at the Regional Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Conference. The very first session I attended on Saturday was about Emotional Intelligence – self awareness / identity and the awareness of how people respond to you. I was thrilled to see this session on the agenda because it fit perfectly with this week’s theme! This week I will be reading Emotional Intelligence 2.0 by Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves as well as interviewing Katie Dahmen, the presenter at the SWE workshop I attended. I will also be creating lists of my strengths and weaknesses, completing the Emotional Intelligence Appraisal, investing in some new wardrobe items and scheduling time to reflect on how much I accomplish each day.What does self identity mean to you?