Becoming Myself

Does that sound redundant? You might think, I’m always myself, so how could it make sense to say ‘becoming myself’?

In the world of personal development, it is what it says: personal development. Life includes change. Time is change. It’s a process. It’s virtually impossible for things or people not to change over time, and there’s really only two ways to respond to change — either for better or for worse.

Becoming myself means I am always changing and striving to make that change for the better, always becoming myself — always becoming the person God created me to become. No matter what I do, I will always be changing, so I want to take hold of that change and make it for the better.

In one of his podcasts episodes, my dad put it this way:

“Nobody has full arrived, or will ever arrive. And I don’t mean that to sound pessimistic and overwhelming, but who wants to arrive? Really, who wants to arrive? I’m looking out here at Pikes Peak — once you get to the top, there’s not a lot to do. Check out the view, enjoy it for a moment. The fun, the joy, the glory is on the way up. It really is. So who wants to reach the absolute top?”

Do you want to reach the top? If you did, would there be anything else to do? What would be the point?

The process is the point. The journey is the point. If I got a place in life in which I felt confident enough to say, “I am who I’m meant to be! I became myself!” there would be no point and nowhere else for my development as a…