Life is about creating ourselves as we want to be

• The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best which is within us. Marianne Williamson
• Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself. Erich Fromm
• We are the cutting edge of becoming. Terence McKenna
• You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. The point of life therefore is to create—who and what you are, and then to experience that. Neale Donald Walsch
• The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place. Barbara Deangelis
• It’s like, at the end, there’s this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid? Richard Bach
• We cannot live better than in seeking to become better. Socrates
• Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation. Life proceeds out of your intention. Your true intention is revealed by your actions, and your actions are determined by your true intention. As with everything in life (and life itself), it is a circle. The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself but creating yourself anew. Seek not to find out who you are, seek to determine who you want to be. Neale Donald Walsch
• If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be. Dale Carnegie
• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus
• Give thanks for what you are now and keep fighting for what you want to be tomorrow. Fernanda Miramontes- Landeros
• You can become, to an enormous degree, the person you want to be. Warren Buffett
• In the end, it is the person you become, not the things you have achieved, that is the most important. Les Brown
• Clarity,  Be clear what you want out of life,  Self-knowledge,  Goal setting,  Visualisation,  Vision

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You become what you envision

• Undoubtedly we become what we envision. Claude M. Bristol
• Whatever a person’s mind dwells on intensely and with firm resolve, that is exactly what he becomes. Shankaracharya
• The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become. Nathaniel Hawthorne
• You can attract that which you first mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality, without any doubting. Ernest Holmes
• I AM – the two most powerful words in the world, for whatever we put after them becomes our reality. Susan Howson
• The first step to becoming is to will it. Mother Teresa
• I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become. Oprah Winfrey
• All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become. Buddha
• Of this I can assure you: who you think you are is exactly who you will wind up being. You are your own thoughts about yourself, manifest. Neale Donald Walsch
• We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions. Thomas Troward
• We know what we are, but not what we may be. William Shakespeare
• When you think, imagine, talk, and behave like the person you want to be, you will become that person. David L Preston
• Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be. Henry David Thoreau
• Vision,  Visualisation,  Begin with the end in mind

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Therefore, first determine who you want to be

• Fix upon your ideal of what you wish to make yourself. Wallace D. Wattles
• Your intellect, levels of confidence, talents, fears, habits—all are physical- world manifestations of a mental equivalent. The way to change those mental equivalents is by thinking quietly, constantly, and persistently of the kind of person you truly want to become. Wayne Dyer
• Whatever you habitually think yourself to be, that you are. You must form, now, a greater and better habit; you must form a conception of yourself as a being of limitless power, and habitually think that you are that being. It is the habitual, not the periodical thought that decides your destiny. Wallace D. Wattles
• Aim not for what you are but for what you could be. Lucas Hellmer
• I didn’t really know what I wanted to do, but I knew the woman I wanted to become. Diane Von Furstenberg
• There is no limit to what you can imagine. And with commitment, with effort, what you can imagine you can become. Put your mind to work for you. Ralph Marston
• Never mind searching for who you are. Search for the person you aspire to be. Robert Brault

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Then vividly imagine yourself as that person

• Imagine how you would feel if you were already the sort of personality you want to be. If you have been shy and timid, see yourself moving among people with ease and poise—and feeling good because of it. If you have been fearful and anxious in certain situations—see yourself acting calmly and deliberately, acting with confidence and courage—and feeling expansive and confident because you are. Maxwell Maltz
• Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it. Napoleon Hill
• Your mental picture of yourself has a powerful effect on your behaviour. Visualize yourself as the person you intend to be in the future. Brian Tracy
• What ignited the process wasn’t any innate skill or gene. It was a small, ephemeral, yet powerful idea: a vision of their ideal future selves, a vision that oriented, energized, and accelerated progress, and that originated in the outside world. Daniel Coyle
• …thinking from the end causes me to behave as if all that I’d like to create is already here. My credo is: Imagine myself to be and I shall be, and it’s an image that I keep with me at all times. Wayne Dyer
• Imagination

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Do this daily

• The Tibetan wise men say that this should be the last part of your silent time in the morning: picturing yourself as the most successful, and wise, and compassionate person you can imagine. Take a few minutes in the about-to- get-  noisy silence just before you get up off the couch, and really work hard to see yourself as you could be. It plants a very strong imprint in your mind to get that way some time. You’ll see. Geshe Michael Roach
• I realize the dominating thoughts of my mind will eventually reproduce themselves in outward, physical action, and gradually transform themselves into physical reality; therefore, I will concentrate my thoughts for thirty minutes daily, upon the task of thinking of the person I intend to become, thereby creating in my mind a clear mental picture. Napoleon Hill

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Finally, act like that person

• Act as if everything you desire is already here… treat yourself as if you already are what you’d like to become. Wayne Dyer
• Act the part. Imagine that you have been selected for a role in a movie or stage play. In this role, you are to act the part of a person who is excellent at whatever it is you want to do. Brian Tracy
• Act the way you want to be and soon you’ll be the way you act. Les Brown
• Begin to act in your physical world as if that person whom you would love to be were already here. Wayne Dyer
• Believe that you are what you want to be. Neville Goddard
• First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. Epictetus
• Imagine how you would like to be. Confident, charismatic, funny and whatever else you fancy. Now think of how that version of you acts and lives their everyday life. Then imitate them. Henri Junttila
• Imagine who you would like to be—the person it would make you proudest to be. Act like that person. Eric Maisel
• Now, having seen the differences between where you are and where you want to be, begin to change—conciously change—you thoughts, words, and actions to match your grandest vision. Neale Donald Walsch
• Stop using sentences in your material world that reflect what it is you do not want to be. Wayne Dyer
• The secret is in action – here and now. It is your behavior that blinds you to yourself. Disregard whatever you think yourself to be and act as if you were absolutely perfect – whatever your idea of perfection may be. All you need is courage.  Nisargadatta Maharaj
• To live creatively free, do what you know how to do now, then ‘act as if’ you know how to do the rest. SARK
• When you see yourself as a model, an example of excellent performance, you will always do better and accomplish more. Brian Tracy
• You must begin with a belief and then act as if that which you believe or visualize were already your reality. Wayne Dyer
• The more you see yourself as what you’d like to become, and act as if, what you want is already there, the more you’ll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality. Wayne Dyer
• Just as you would not neglect seeds that you planted with hope that they will bear vegetables and fruits and flowers, so you must attend to nourish the garden of your becoming. Jean Houston
• Do not merely think that you are going to become great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time; begin now. Wallace D. Wattles
• Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act. Bob Dylan
• Present yourself always as who you would be, and that is the person the world will see. Robert Brault
• Ask yourself this daily question: ‘How would the person I’d like to be do the things I’m about to do?’ Jim Cathcart
• A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.  Bruce Springsteen
• You must truly act as if you are already what you want to be – in order to align your energy with that and help it manifest. Christin Sander
• Action

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Ask yourself these questions regularly each day

• What would the person I would like to be do in this moment? Eric Maisel
• If others were watching you, what would you do differently each day? Brian Tracy

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To become who you want to be, be willing to give up who you are

• The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be. Max De Pree
• The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. Charles Du Bos

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Questions

• What is your ideal self? What does it mean to be your highest self?
• What qualities do you want to embody?
• Where can you meet people who embody these qualities?
• Who am I becoming?
• Who do you want to be like in 1 year? 3 years? 5 years? 10 years?
• Which possible self do you want to avoid?
• Who inspires you the most? How can you be like them?
• How would the person I would like to be act and behave?
• What would the person I would like to be do in this moment?
• Right now, how can I act like the person I’d like to be?

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On a lighter note

• I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.  Liy Tomlin

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