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Self Analysis Exercise

Having answered the questions as if you were in the moment for each incident, answer the
following in writing :

· How do you feel now?
· What emotions are you having now?

· What are you telling yourself about these events today?
· What power did you lose to this event? (if negative) What power did you gain or what did
you learn (if positive)
If you have completed this first exercise truthfully and completely, you will now be armed with
the information you need to move forward.
· Now, list your influential events in one brief paragraph or few sentences

· For each, define the before and after of how the event affected you
· Write a few lines to define the long term effect of the event

· Write how and why you think the moment supported or obstructed your authentic self
showing through

· Review and decide if your interpretation and reaction to the event was correct or not
· Write down whether you should keep or discard your views regarding the impact on your
self from each event
· Having survived your events, review them as a whole and determine what has been the
effect on your self worth and confidence
Influential Selections and Choices

Before starting this section of the exercise, briefly review the hierarchy of needs pyramid in the
last session. We are all motivated by different factors to make choices and decisions in our lives
and invariably, the choices and decisions you make, will be driven by one or more of the human
needs.

Armed with the information of your influential events, work through the appropriate age groups
and identify the important selections, decisions and choices you made in each band. The
challenge of this section is to identify the selections, decisions and choices you made and how
they affected living your life authentically :
· Stage 1: 0 to 6 Up to early Childhood

· Stage 2: 6 to 12 Up to Junior School Years
· Stage 3: 12 to 18 Adolescence
· Stage 4: 19 to 40 Young Adulthood

· Stage 5: 40 -65 Middle Adulthood
· Stage 6: 65 Onward - Late Adulthood

Look at the choices that had significant impact on your life emotionally, physically, financially,
legally, socially and ask yourself the following questions :

· What was/were the choice(s)?
· Why did you make it/them?

· What did you give up by making this choice?
· What was the effect on your self worth before and after the choice?