What is the greatest version of you?

By Daniel Francis

As a Leadership Development Coach, I talk a lot about what the greatest version of you should be doing. In many articles, I have taken the time to outline these activities not only in your spiritual life but in other areas like financial, mental, health, etc.

Through experiences shared by others, and my personal experiences added to that, I have realised what’s the greatest version of ourselves. Interestingly enough, it is not that version of you that believes you can do anything.

Yes, it is important to have that belief, but I have noticed a commonality of shared experience when we are experiencing that run of the greatest version of ourselves and what successful people share. God even alludes to it in scripture.

The best version of you is the disciplined version of you. Why do I say this? Because the version of you that is most disciplined is the version of you with not only boundaries but who sticks to those predetermined boundaries.

If you are thinking to yourself what is the big deal, I challenge you to think about some of the things, people, and activities which have a detrimental effect on your life.

When I say your life, I mean the aspects of your financial, mental health, physical health, spirituality, and family. Now that you have thought about these detrimental elements can you safely say you have been disciplined in the boundaries that you have set around them all? I can safely say that I have not created adequate boundaries with all these elements.

The best version of yourself says and means things like:

• I don’t do that.
• I don’t go there.
• I don’t spend time with this person.
• I don’t drink or eat that.

That disciplined version of yourself understands the damage these elements have on you and has the foresight and fortitude to remove you from these elements with a level of commitment that no external factor can bend.

The version of you with boundaries knows that you have to stay right there. Stay in that corner of your world where these detrimental things can’t reach you. This version of yourself may be described as boring or far removed to some. But don’t let that distract you from the fact of the matter: that you are focused.

This article hits close to home for me because I have a problem with boundaries. I do what some of us do where we make excuses to allow a boundary to be crossed.

We tell ourselves it is okay this time when we know it’s not. Maybe you are a people pleaser and even though you said that you don’t want to drink anymore because you do not like how belligerent you get, you still agree to go out with your friends to that bar. You tell yourself you will drink one drink, but you go, and you overdo it. Now you regret crossing your boundary.

Maybe you are plagued by a certain sin. You know the people, places, and things that make you more likely to indulge in this sin, and even though you set your boundaries you tell yourself this time will be different.

The best version of ourselves is the version of us that God desperately wants us to exist in. Discipline is a difficult state to maintain because as I have shown it is a mental battle, but luckily the byproducts of discipline when reaped bear significant fruit.

Today I want you to sit and outline your boundaries in all the different areas of your life. What should you not do anymore? Who should you not be around anymore? Where should you not go anymore? What should you not eat or drink anymore?

Sit and write it out. When you have clearly articulated it put it in a place where you will see it daily. The transformation into the best version of yourself is a daily promise hence why you need to be reminded daily.

Join me in this journey to becoming our best selves.

Daniel Francis is a millennial helping other millennials. He is a two-time author of the books The Millennial Mind and The Millennial Experience, and an entrepreneur. Over the past four years, he has served as a Personal Development Coach whose work targets Millennials and helps them tap into their full potential. He is also a self-publishing coach and has guided hundreds on self-publishing their book successfully.

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