In this article, I propose to consider a number of practical activities that will help you say goodbye to the “old”, familiar self and will lead you to the “new” you. Start your journey. Get to know your complex self. Trust yourself. After completing all these exercises, you will have the opportunity to hear and recognize your true self. We begin, our first port of call on this journey is: - habits. On the one hand, it is an extremely useful tool, and on the other hand, it can be a destructive mechanism. One way or another, this is an excellent tool to expand your capabilities and move away from the usual standards. What should you do? Change your habits. If you are right-handed, start brushing your teeth with your left hand and vice versa. This applies to everything; you can start combing your hair, eating, applying makeup with a hand that you have never done before. Choose a different route on the way home or to work, to training. By creating such small frustrations for our body and mind, we not only learn new things, we improve our capabilities, but also create new neural connections. Your brain is activated, interest awakens, you are filled with new energy. It is important to do this exercise for at least 50 days. The first 20 days you form a new habit and the next 30 days it takes you to consolidate it. We continue further and the next stop: “the call of the soul.” If a person does not follow his call of the soul, he begins to suffer. Almost every person has desires; ideas; a feeling that something is missing. Listen to yourself and ask yourself a couple of questions: what does your call tell you? What is he talking about? What were your dreams as a child? What do you like to do (really like, what brings you pleasure)? Try to implement the area in which the call or at least some part of this area. There is no need to go to extremes: break off existing relationships, quit your job. Start with small steps and slowly follow your inner call. Joseph John Campbell is an American mythology researcher, his book “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” inspired George Lucas to create the Star Wars film saga. He suggested meditating in a state where you hear your call. Include a five-minute meditation in your day, during which try to hear yourself. Be attentive to the images and thoughts that come during meditation. Know yourself and follow yourself. The next tool: - working with past experience. Steve Jobs in his famous speech to Stanford graduates said: everything you have ever done in your life will definitely come in handy! I propose to consider your past experience precisely in the context of this thought. Think about it! How do you feel about your past experiences? Do you regret anything? Track your compassion for yourself in the moment. If pity and disappointment turn on, change the negative for new positive attitudes, do not block your new experience. Look at your experience from the perspective of the valuable material that you have acquired throughout your life. And if you didn’t have this experience, you wouldn’t be on this path now. Exercise: take a piece of paper and a pen (namely paper and pen, not a tablet or computer!!!). Remember and write down 15 points of your past experience that you considered unsuccessful. Next to each item, note what experiences and feelings this experience causes you. Next to your feelings, write down at least three positive conclusions that can be drawn from a specific point. Let's continue our journey, next stop: - excessive control. Don't try to control everything. You start a new business or study and you have “complete chaos” in your head. Stop exhausting yourself trying to organize everything. Trying to connect all the dots in the future is practically utopian. Start taking action and along the way everything will begin to fall into place. Remember, fairy tales are myths. The main character, who has begun his journey, always receives helpers in the form of elves, animals, etc. Trust yourself and the chosen path - your image. Throughout life, we create our own image. But not always this one.