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Unlocking your true self: Cultivating personal virtues and skills (Part 6)

Unlocking your true self: Cultivating personal virtues and skills (Part 6)

Welcome to the sixth part of the blog post series, where you will explore the skills of courage to face your fears, honesty, and ongoing self-development and learning. You will also delve into amazing techniques and strategies to embrace and cultivate these skills. If you need a refresher on the techniques to practice selected virtues, principles, or skills, revisit the first part for fantastic guidance. 


Let’s continue exploring the skills, virtues, and principles that help you unlock your true self…

Keep these tips in focus to enhance your practice with the techniques:

Now that you are fully focused, let’s start exploring and practicing

Cultivate courage and overcome your fears

Why is it essential?

As you embark on the journey of cultivating courage, you will recognise something powerful: the thoughts that often hold you back—“I’m not ready,” “I can’t do that,” “I’m afraid this might happen” — are nothing more than self-made excuses your mind creates to keep you within your comfort zone. However, the moment you choose to push through each fear, you will be astonished at your own strength. You will find yourself wondering, “What was so difficult about that? Why did I make such a big deal out of it? Why didn’t I do this sooner?” Cultivating courage diminishes these excuses and empowers you to discover a (more) confident, resilient version of yourself, making you unstoppable in reaching your goals and bringing your vision to life.

How to make the shift?

Develop the courage to face your fears and the “unknown” by integrating the previously discussed virtues, skills and principles into your life. Begin with practices like reflection, meditation, T’ai Chi or Qigong to foster inner peace, spaciousness and awareness. These techniques help build a solid foundation for courage by enhancing your emotional intelligence, managing your emotions effectively and cultivating self-compassion to support yourself through challenges and setbacks.

Cultivate resilience through focus, perseverance and flexibility, which will help you navigate obstacles with a positive mindset. Staying present and aware is key; it allows you to identify and minimise distractions, face your truth, and engage in an honest conversation with yourself. Move beyond the layers and facades of your surface persona (which you may call “old self,” ego, conceptual habitual self) to connect with your true essence.

From this place of authenticity, discover your true vision, which acts as a powerful driving force (a magnet) to pull you through any challenges you may encounter. By combining these practices and principles, you will develop the courage, confidence and self-control necessary to stay focused on what matters most. This approach will enable you to turn things around, improve, and amplify what is good and positive in life.

For detailed, step-by-step guidance, consider exploring the Essential Package, which provides comprehensive support through each phase of your journey.

Embrace truth and honesty

Why is it essential?

Honesty and truth are the foundations for progress on your journey. By grounding yourself in honesty and aligning it with integrity, your choices and actions will naturally align with your values and principles.

As you gain clarity and experience, you will understand that lies and judgement offer only false directions, leading you away from your true self, aspirations, and consciousness. 

When people avoid the truth, it’s often because they believe (and “hope”) that things will improve for them, at least in the short term. However, this tendency only adds more layers and facades, and illusions, allowing them to avoid the real challenges that stand in their way. This avoidance pulls them back into unconscious habits that lead to worry, misery and unhappiness. By facing and pushing through these obstacles, you will realise that the only barrier between you and your desires is the “old habitual conditioned self” (which you may call ego, surface persona, layers and facades) you have built

How to make the shift?

Cultivate conscious practices

To fully embrace truth and honesty in your life, cultivate presence and awareness through daily reflection and practices like Meditation, Yoga Nidra, T’ai Chi or Qigong. These practices help you quiet the mind, notice and replace disempowering thoughts and self-talk, and tune into your true essence and inner self, allowing you to recognise and eliminate distractions. By creating spaciousness, these methods enable you to face your truth and engage in an honest conversation with yourself.

Move beyond the layers and facades of your surface persona (which you might call the “old self,” ego, conceptual habitual self) to connect with your true essence. This deeper connection allows you to understand your core values, passions, and authentic desires. From this place of authenticity, you will gain clarity on your true vision, which acts as a strong driving force that helps you align your goals and plans with your true self. This alignment will also help you create a supportive network of relationships that encourage and reinforce your commitment to honesty. Cultivate patience and trust in the process.

Remember, harnessing the power of consciousness guides you toward the right actions that always involve finding solutions, fostering creativity, and making contributions. This conscious approach will empower you to face challenges with a clear sense of purpose and integrity.

The Essential Package provides you with comprehensive information, insights, tools techniques and strategies needed to gain clarity, face challenges, and bring your aspirations to life. Embrace this opportunity to advance on your journey and create a fulfilling life.

Pursue continuous growth and self-development

Why is it essential?

You may have realised by now that achieving your vision and fulfillment is not about taking the “easy way out”. It is about embracing a journey of continuous progress, growth and development. This ongoing process has the power to unlock new opportunities and shape your perspective in profound ways.

How to make the shift?

Making this shift involves embracing the elements we have discussed throughout this blog post series. Start by nurturing curiosity, excitement, and joy. Ask questions, stay open-minded and non-judgemental. Make time for reflection and journaling, and incorporate practices like meditation to deepen your consciousness and awareness. Focus on your goals with a clear plan and celebrate milestones along the way. Above all, be kind and compassionate with yourself. Embrace challenges with enthusiasm and maintain an energised state.

Read for pleasure

Reading books for pleasure and exploring new genres and topics is a fantastic way to expand your knowledge and vocabulary, broaden your perspectives, enhance cognitive abilities, develop problem-solving skills and stimulate creativity and imagination.

Additionally, reading can be a relaxing activity, offering an escape from daily stress and providing a moment of tranquility.

Discover whether a printed book or a digital version enhances your reading experience and comprehension, or if a combination of both serves different needs best.

Incorporating reading into your daily routine can be one of the most rewarding things you do for yourself.

Explore reflective journaling and a “hybrid planner”

Reflecting on your experiences enhances your awareness of your thoughts, actions, behaviours and emotions. It helps you identify patterns, triggers, and underlying beliefs that shape your behaviour and decision-making processes.

Engaging in reflective journaling cultivates a deeper sense of awareness. By focusing on the present moment and observing your thoughts without judgment, you develop a greater sense of awareness.

To dive deeper into this practice, you may want to explore the Essential Package for more resources and guidance.

The more aware you become, the better you will stay focused on your goals and the longer you will remain in the present moment with awareness. The Essential Package offers a step-by-step guide and equips you with the right information, insights, tools and strategies needed to bring your aspirations to life. Explore this opportunity to continue your journey towards achieving your dreams and living the life you desire.

Which personal virtue or skill will you focus on first, and what steps will you take to start integrating it into your daily life?


As you reach the end of this blog series, you can see that the journey isn’t about finding skills, virtues, principles, or fulfillment outside yourself. It is about recognising that they have always been within you. The key is to shift your perspective to identify and let go of the barriers (what you might call the ego, your “old self,” a surface persona, or conceptual habitual patterns) that you have built within yourself and that have been hiding these qualities.

I would love to hear about your experiences with the techniques or versions you found most effective. If you have discovered any other useful tools not mentioned here, please share them. Your insights could be incorporated into future blog posts, helping to empower, inspire, and motivate others on their journey.







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