6 WAYS TO BE
YOURSELF
WAKE-UP FOUNDATION

WHAT DOES IT
MEAN TO BE
YOURSELF?
Being yourself
means being unique
This means being as
different as possible
from others.

#1: BECOME
AN INDEPENDENT THINKER
• Being an independent thinker
means making your own decisions.
• Doing your own things.
• In your own ways and timeframes.

BECOME AN INDEPENDENT THINKER
Being an independent thinker means coming up with
creative solutions to make your life successful.
Is it also about discovering a unique reason why you
want to achieve your goals and discover the path to
achieve those goals.

BECOME
AN INDEPENDENT THINKER
• Being an independent thinker allows you to
become more creative.
• Creativity is about imagination, and imagination
comes from within you, being yourself, and
thinking differently.
• Once you achieved your goal in your own unique
way, you will be proud of yourself to want to be
yourself.

#2: DISCOVER AND USE
YOUR STRENGTHS AND TALENTS
• To feel good about yourself is to use your
strengths and talents as much as possible to
help yourself and others.
• When you are making a difference in using your
strengths and talents, you tend to do great
things that you can be proud of.
• However, if you are not using your strengths
and talents, then most likely you will copy other
people, in trying to use their strengths and
talents.

WAYS TO
DISCOVER
YOUR STRENGTHS
AND TALENTS
Pay Pay attention to subjects or things that you
can easily learn faster than others.
Pay
Pay attention to your hobbies. Our strengths
and talents tend to come from doing things
that we enjoy.
Pay
Pay attentions to your accomplishments in
your personal, social, and or
professional areas.

#3: TAKE ACTION IN DOING YOUR
OWN THINGS
• Take immediate actions in using your
strengths and talents to do your own
things.
• Start out small.
• Whatever knowledge, skill, ability, and
resources you have in the moment, see
how you can use them to apply your
strengths and talents as much as possible.

TAKE ACTION IN DOING YOUR
OWN THINGS
• As you take more action steps, you will
understand more about your strengths and
talents to help you see where you can learn new
knowledge and skills to take bigger action steps.
• When you are able to innovate your own ideas,
then you can take ownership and be proud of
yourself for them.
• Taking ownership for something that no one else
has ever done before can give you one of the
greatest experiences of being a human being.

#4: PERSONAL GROWTH: BECOME
A BETTER PERSON
• Personal growth is about learning new
knowledge and skills, and applying them to help
you become a better and stronger person.
• You will be able to discover and understand
more about your strengths and talents.
• You will have the ability to block out external
influences to help you stay focused on using
your strengths and talents successfully.

#4: 3 WAYS TO
PERSONAL
GROWTH
Learn how to nourish your body. Learn how to improve your
diet, exercise, water intake, exercise, and sleep routines.
Learn
Learn how to nourish your mind, by learning how to increase
your self-esteem, self-confidence, and courage to believe in
yourself that you can use your strengths and talents
successfully.
Learn
Learn how to nourish your spirit by learning how to develop
inner peace, appreciation, and forgiveness.
Learn

PERSONAL GROWTH: BECOME
A BETTER PERSON
• The more you nourish your body, mind,
and spirit, the more your body, mind,
and spirit will feel good, the more you
will feel good about yourself, the more
you will want to be yourself.

#5: DO THE
RIGHT THING
You want to always do the right
things for yourself, even if no
one agrees with you.
Remember, when you are being
yourself, which means doing
unique and different things
than others, people may not
always agree with you.

DO THE RIGHT
THING
• Believe in yourself that what you are
doing for yourself will turn out
successfully in the future.
• Even though you might encounter a
setback, it does not mean you will
not become successful in the
future.

DO THE RIGHT
THING
• Always try to do things that are
good for you. The more you are
doing things that are good for you,
the more you will feel good about
yourself, the more you will want to
be yourself.

#6: BE PROUD OF YOURSELF
• No matter what outcome you get in life, positive or negative,
be proud of yourself.
• The fact that you have the ability to take action to do your
own things, that should be an accomplishment in itself.
• In today society, for you to have the courage to separate
yourself and do your own things is not an easy thing, so be
proud of yourself.

BE PROUD OF YOURSELF
• When you have a positive
outcome, celebrate your
success by acknowledging your
strengths and talents.
• When you have a negative
outcome, try to learn new
knowledge and skills to improve
the situation, and that is a
positive opportunity itself.

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