The Ideal Self...

David Round
The Ideal Self...
A handwritten page inside an open notebook

“The ideal self is the image we hold of the very best we are capable of, our highest strengths realised and active.” - Martin Seligman

I think we all have that picture in our minds, of the person we know we could be. Some days that person is like a twin, and other days like some long-lost relative, but that person is always there, reminding us of what could be.

I wonder what would happen if we decided to do one thing today to take us one step closer to that ideal self ?

And I also wonder whether, if we did one thing every day, it would stop being our ‘ideal self’, and would simply become our self…

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