To build a life of excellent, begin by asking…

To build a life of excellent, begin by asking yourself these questions. What are my strength? How do I work? What are my values? Where do I belong? What can I contribute?

— from The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection) · On Managing Yourself by HBR

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Reflection is also how you find your own foundations. To build a life of excellence, the management thinker Peter Drucker said, begin by asking yourself: what are my strengths, how do I work best, what are my values, where do I belong, and what can I contribute. You discover your strengths not by guessing but by looking back honestly at the moments you did your very best work and asking what it was about you that made it go so well. […] Take a yearly inventory. Do an annual review of what went right and wrong, and keep a running list of your blessings and the things you have already endured and overcome. Know your foundations. Name your strengths, your values, where you belong, and what you can contribute; find them by reflecting on when you did your best work. Let the past go. When you are stuck in the loop, step outside and watch yourself like a fly on the wall, then stop trying to control what is already gone and release it. — The Relationship With Yourself (Traits/Reflection)

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