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KNOW YOUR DEEPLY HELD BELIEFS

We have already established that identifying our strengths is key to defining our dreams. In the preceding chapters we discussed innate talents and acquired competencies. The third category of strengths is our principles, including the core religious beliefs by which we define ourselves. Whether we come from a strong religious tradition or not, we all have a basic foundation of principles and beliefs that guide our actions and are an essential part of our truest selves. Identifying these foundational ideas can help us uncover and delineate our deepest dreams.

About six months after my husband and I moved to New York City, I was waiting for the train at Lincoln Center and animatedly describing a film I had seen ...

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