Over the past few months, I’ve gained some insight into myself, the way I work, the way I am.
I wanted to give a title to this period of insight, but no word I can think of accurately describes its aspects without introducing false qualtites. So I guess I will simply call it Insight 1. Actually, after writing this post, maybe I should call it the “Make it So” principle 
At first I was scared. I felt like I was doing nothing, like I was letting my life slip by. I felt caught up in a fast moving river. I don’t even know why I’m no longer caught up in that river. All I know is that I am no longer in it. I am on the banks observing the river now. This is what has inspired me to sit down and write these very words.
Insight 1. We are only what we imagine ourselves to be. We are who we think we are. We can become what we want to be simply by taking steps to make it so. The question is not how do we do this, how do we become the person we want to be. The question is, what kind of a person do we want to become. This may seem frivolous and silly to think about, but try it. Sit down and think about who you want to be. What qualities make you this person? Do you display these qualities now? Would you take steps towards displaying these qualities more? Then make it so. Be the person you want to be. It’s as simple as that. Don’t make an excuse, don’t justify your current actions, don’t live in the past – simply decide what portion of yourself you will improve, think of a way, make a plan, to do this, and do it.
I’m linking to Captain Picard from Star Trek, if you haven’t noticed. The Captain of the USS Enterprise-D came to my mind when I was pondering how to write these words. I’m not here to preach about the wonders of Star Trek, but I did feel it was appropriate to recall this character. He was a man who made it so. He needed to be. He was the captain of a well staffed ship with children on it, encountering new species and new situations all the time. His decisions needed to be fast, as did compliance to these decisions by the crew. Sometimes they made it so in events where they were unsure of the outcome, or skeptical as to if the course of action was best. Sometimes Picard himself doubted the decisions. But they were made.
How is this related to Insight 1? Well, we are not in such a tight, rigid chain of command, and yet in a sense we are. We must be the leaders and executioners of our desires. We must be Picard as well as Worf and Riker and Wesley and all the other crew. Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we have many roles. It’s easy to be the brains of desires, but not to be the brawns, or to see ourselves as not being able to be the brawns. It’s easy to wish we were Person X with Quality Y, but when push comes to shove, sometimes we don’t make a plan, we don’t think about how to progress, we seem to accept that the situation is a mystical would be instead of realizing that we can break out of this, that we can make it so.
As with all knowledge, it is only when we are aware of it that we can reflect on it, reflect on ourselves, make any conclusions we see fit and make any changes to ourselves we desire to make.
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