Becoming self-employed and self-educated.

1. Your Job Is Not Who You Are!
The story we keep telling ourselves is the only thing holding us back in life.
If you don't have the right story, find somebody who will help you go out and get one.
You Are Not Your Job . The story we keep telling ourselves is the only thing holding us back in life.
If you don't have the right story, find somebody who will help you go out and get one.
Your story is who you think you are and your expectations for sucess or failure in life.
Your story is your attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs. It's your self-concept.
Do not confuse identity with self-concept though.
"What you don't know keeps you poor."~Robert Kiyosaki
Many people only identify "who they are" by saying things such as “I’m a salesperson,” “I’m a manager,” or “I
work at this company." Perhaps that's why, when many people get fired from that identity they go bezerk.
Unfortunately, the etymology of "identity" deals only with the nature of the self and not one's experiences, which
lead to certain behaviors and changes.
Suppose I come from humble beginnings, win the lottery, and take on a new identity as a rich man?
Suppose though, my ideas or concept of living the life of a rich man, are distorted and unrealistic? How long
can I expect to hold on to that identity and mindset of a man of wealth?
Donald Trump was once billions of dollars in debt. He reconditioned his self-concept to gain it all back.
Another example of this principle of "how you see yourself," can also be applied to a young child who needs to
condition their idea of themselves by saying the words,
"I like myself!" and believe it with feelings.
Young kids can develop false associations very early on that help them to create self-limiting beliefs. Many
people spend the first fifty years getting over the first five.
The human mind is essentially an associating machine. We learn who we are and most of our education by
association. Association is subtle and powerful.
Have you ever been around a group of good friends and found it strengthened your will and imagination?
Here's a perfect example of how relationships change the way you look at life:
We conceive the meaning and significance of practically all our words, not from dictionaries, not from
definitions, but from hearing words in their verbal context of how they are used in relation to the others.
With each succeeding sentence it becomes more clear to us what the meaning of that word is and how those
words accompany actual situations in life.
This is how we also learn the meaning of our self-concept, not from dictionaries, not from definitions, but from
constantly hearing the words that help us form our beliefs about ourselves and our potential—in relation to
those people we habitually associate with most.
With each succeeding sentence, over the years it becomes more clear to us who we are and our expectations
for success or failure in life.
"I am somebody. I am a person. I am a man with dignity and honor.
I have a rich and noble history." ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
I'm "creatively broke", or "temporarily short of money", is a much more resourceful description to share the

2. minor details of your story, than "I'm broke" or "unemployed".
“Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago—on a train ride from Manhattan to
Hollywood, at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at our lowest ebb, and disaster
seemed right around the corner.” ~Walt Disney
“The things to do are: the things that need doing, that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to
see need to be done.” ~R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor, architect, philosopher, and author of Critical Path.
So What's The Take Home Lesson?
That you can benefit from this idea best by seeing yourself in terms of what you are,
instead of what you do. You are much more than just your job or title.
We don't need the Wizard of Oz to authorize our credentials or graduate our potential.
"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle." ~Lewis Carroll