“I don’t know who I am.” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard that from clients over the past year. “I just don’t know who I am any more.” How many times have you felt that way? How often have you sat and contemplated and meditated and journaled and questioned, “Who am I?”

I have another question for you, several, in fact. What is it that you do not know? What is it about yourself that you feel you need to name? How would you live differently if you “knew yourself”?

Here’s another question. What are you not doing because you don’t “know who you are”? Which leads to yet another question. Do you think you can ever truly know who you are? Every moment you live, every decision you make, every decision you don’t make, leads you to the next moment, and the next, and the next. And with each moment, there are new experiences, new opportunities, new possibilities, that lead you to the next choice, the next step. And with each moment, with each step, with each choice, your life changes irrevocably. Can you not, then, assume that who you are changes too? So with each moment, your life changes and you change. How, then, can you ever “know who you are” when you are constantly changing and shifting from one moment, one decision, one step, to the next.

What is it that you need to know about yourself before you can embrace the beauty and wonder and color of life? What do you need to know about yourself before you can feel what is stirring within you? In each moment, can you find that place within that is aware of how you feel, of what you desire, of what is calling to you? In that moment? Can you open to the magic that exists around you, in that moment?

If you ask me who I am, I will answer this: It is an unanswerable question. Who I am cannot be known. I simply am. And I am engaged in life every moment, unconcerned that I do not have an answer to “who am I?”.

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” – Dr. Seuss