This is Day 5 of the 21-Day Journaling Challenge held in Nov 2011. The challenge is now over but you can do the tasks in your own time. Visit the overview page for all the challenge tasks.
Hi everyone – Welcome to Day 5 of 21DJC! :)Yesterday’s question was this: “If You Are To Travel Back in Time to 3 Years Ago, What Advice Would You Give Yourself?“.All your responses were AMAZING. It certainly feels like many of you have grown and evolved immensely in just the past 3 years, hasn’t it? That while others may be sleepwalking their life away during that time, you have been making your life count. For that, I’m so happy for all of you. I’m so proud that all of you are here, at Personal Excellence, united as one community, one family. This feeling is indescribable. It’s sort of like I feel like I’m a big momma that feels protective of all of you, and there’s this surging sense of pride from seeing how far you’ve come these past few years.So where was I 3 years ago? 3 years ago was November 2008. I had just quit my brand management job at Procter & Gamble, and was just starting my personal development business. I was full of fire and enthusiasm about my cause; I still am today and will forever be that way. It’s been 3 years running the business, and yet it feels like I just started it yesterday. Time certainly loses its significance when you are doing what you really love. :)If I were to travel back in time 3 years ago, I would tell my younger self:
Hi everyone – Welcome to Day 5 of 21DJC! :)Yesterday’s question was this: “If You Are To Travel Back in Time to 3 Years Ago, What Advice Would You Give Yourself?“.All your responses were AMAZING. It certainly feels like many of you have grown and evolved immensely in just the past 3 years, hasn’t it? That while others may be sleepwalking their life away during that time, you have been making your life count. For that, I’m so happy for all of you. I’m so proud that all of you are here, at Personal Excellence, united as one community, one family. This feeling is indescribable. It’s sort of like I feel like I’m a big momma that feels protective of all of you, and there’s this surging sense of pride from seeing how far you’ve come these past few years.So where was I 3 years ago? 3 years ago was November 2008. I had just quit my brand management job at Procter & Gamble, and was just starting my personal development business. I was full of fire and enthusiasm about my cause; I still am today and will forever be that way. It’s been 3 years running the business, and yet it feels like I just started it yesterday. Time certainly loses its significance when you are doing what you really love. :)If I were to travel back in time 3 years ago, I would tell my younger self:- Do what you’re doing now. You’re absolutely on the right track.
- Follow your heart and trust your gut instincts as you always have. It has never steered you wrong, and it will continue to bring you to the right place.
- Nothing has ever happened for you to lose faith, so there’s no reason to have doubts in anything.
- If there’s ever anyone who is a cancerous agent to your path, let him/her go. There are 7 billion people in this world – For anyone who doesn’t resonate with your current consciousness, there will be ten thousands of people out there who do.
- Live. Love. Breathe.
With that said, let’s now move on to today’s question! ;)
21DJC Day 5
For today’s question, I decided to go with something close to our heart. This question can be found in #91 of 101 Important Questions To Ask Yourself In Life. Today, I’d like you to reflect on the following:Who Is the Most Important Person to You in the World?
Your Task Today:
- Reflect and answer today’s question. There’s no word limit – whether minimum or maximum. Write as few or as many words as you want. It’s all up to what you want to express!
- Share your answer. After you are done writing, copy and paste your answer in the comments area and post it there.
- Check out other participants’ answers. Other participants will be sharing their answers too, so feel free to read and reply to their answers. This is a group course, so let’s support each other in these 21 days.
Look forward to reading your answers! :D
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My wife is the most important person in my life. We met in college, and have now been married for 30 years, and have raised three great young men. She is my best friend and the person I share not only the routine details of my daily life with, but my hopes and dreams as well. She laughs at all my jokes and has supported me in everything I have done and every decision I have made. I am a better person because of her and feel blessed for having the opportunity to share my life with such a wonderful person.
I think right now that person is my mom. We talk all the time and I don’t hang out with too many friends a lot. She always supports me and pushes me to be better. Yeah she’s not perfect, but I am so grateful for her hard work in raising me. This is pretty much it for this question. Unfortunately.
The most important person in the world to me is me.
Everyone in this world deserves to be important, including me. In doing so, like a beacon, I hope to be an example to others.
Then when people stop worrying what others think and go forth with their dreams, what a world that will be.
It is very difficult for me to choose one most important person for me in the world. That’s because some or other person (family members, friends or even other writers, bloggers, even strangers…) has always been there; may be not to an extent I expected them to be there for me but to the point they can, helping me to deal with or discuss what was in my mind which I cannot discuss with another person. I consider myself to be lucky in this way touchwood. Just cannot choose my mother over my father or my family over my friends. They together bring that wholeness and what one relationship can give us other cannot. Like, if you are working you want good peers, although your family fulfills all your desires you still want to have close friends to confide in.
So I can prepare a list of important people:
1.Parents, close friends and relatives
2.Myself
3.Acquaintances/ some stirring strangers, leading light
4.Life partner and my family
5.Pets, books ( as they keep me happy, engaged, sometimes answers)
All above have taught me, inspired, made me happy, kept me going, heard what I said, …beautified my world
Me and My Wife. Period!
I have a family I love, a great boyfriend, and amazing friends.
However, the most important person in my life is… myself. Selfish as it sounds, I have realized (very very recently) that giving all of myself to others is not good for me or for anyone else.
Lately I’ve been suffering depression, anxiety, panic. And those times often come when I am worried about someone else, thinking about someone else, wishing I could be someone else.
I am trying to be a better person, to focus on my needs and live by my values.
I know that by focusing on myself, I’ll be better for the people I love too.
My entire family is extremely important to me. We are a small group and we are very aware of the fact that all we have is each other but if I had to pick one person, it would be my little sister.
We are 24 years apart in age, yet I see so much of me in her it is shocking. She is a miniature version of her big sister but better. She has none of my insecurities or weaknesses, except maybe a poor aptitude for math. She is incredibly smart, funny, confident and amazingly self-aware for someone so young. I think that is largely because my brother and I often treat her as though she is one of us; an adult. She has an old soul and sometimes I forget she is only a child. I also know she watches me like a hawk and emulates much of what I do. I just hope I serve as a good example for her.
This is the toughest question so far. It’s tough because i want to answer ‘i can’t choose only one’. I feel like a bad person choosing only one because I have been so truly blessed with an amazing close LARGE family of 6 kids, mum and dad and I now sport 5 beautiful nephews, a stunning firecracker of a niece and a beautiful little god daughter whose mother is my best friend in the whole world…. and that’s before i get into my incredible friends and extended family of in-laws.
The truth is I am so thoroughly well supported by all of them if feels a betrayal to chose just one person to be the most important. My mum and dad are possibly the top of the list which is acceptable for some reason and yet in my heart of hearts there is one person that is my compass, my shield, my rock, my light, my teacher, my confident, my inspiration, my furnace, my security blanket and my home and that’s my sister. (I have two sisters and love them equally. My oldest sister is also amazing in so many ways and equally supportive of me … you can see my dillema … but the sister I described before is the first phone call i make in times of crisis and celebration. She’s also the first phone call i make in everyday life and she knows me better than I know myself at times. It pains me that I can actually make a distinction between my siblings cause truth be known I don’t know how I would get through life without any of them, but there it is!
I’m really not sure what purpose that exercise just served for me…. if simply a reminder to be grateful for the amazing people in my life (which it did) then why the challenge to choose one person as most important. I’d be really grateful if someone could shed some light?
The most important person in the world to me is my 13 year old son, Marcus. His youthful exuberance engergizes me. He is always questioning the world and he has always had a somewhat defiant streak, thus he is appropriately named (Marcus=defiant) so he challenges me to be my best. A while ago, because of some personal problems of mine, I was unable to live with him. I missed him so much. I am so grateful to be reunited with him and appreciate watching him grow into a young man. I just love him so much and he inspires me.
Me because I am the mother of my children.
When I first looked at this question, I was stumped- because I had so many people who easily fit the bill- my parents, my twin sister, my grandparents, my uncle and my husband. And it made me feel so blessed that I have so many people who love me and care about my well-being.
But since I can pick only one person, it would definitely be my mom- for being my best friend, guide, mentor, sounding board and cheerleader. Every time I call her and hear her cheerful hello or better still- “my baby!”, it takes me back to my childhood when we all believed that Mom was Supermom and Dad was Superman! I know that no matter what Mom will always be there for me – to help and advise me.
Love you, Mom!
Wow, what a question.
Well I’d definitely have to say it’d be my father. And I didn’t always feel that way either. I always knew he was important to me but I never realized just how much until recently. After getting his hours cut from work and me spending some time at home we’ve really had a lot of free time to spend together. Now I’ve always had a good relationship with my father but sometimes found it difficult to live with him or even go on simple trips/adventures with him. He’s one of the most intelligent men I know with an incredible sense of drive and focus. He’s a thinker yet a do’er and he has the heart to keep from getting corrupted. But as much as I don’t want to hear it sometimes he gives me the brutal truth when I need to hear it and continuously helps me to find “My own” path and to stay on it. And now that I’m old enough to look past those unimportant and small annoyances/differences I realized indeed that he was the most important person in my life for both inspiration and as a guide.
First thought; hmm, the ‘right’ answer is obvious ‘me’, but would I give that answer?
Then I read some replies and thought about them.
Conclusion; the choice is always someone very close. related.
Someone you learn from! Parents and childs are the ones in live some teach the most.
Maybe not always nice or welcome lessons, but nevertheless lessons.
As my most important person I choose ‘me’!
I am the center of my universe. I am the one learning my lessons. I am the one using my wisdom to guide and teach others. I am the stone in the water spreading circles.
Or in short; because I am a survivor!
This is tough and I’m not really sure how to approach this question. There are many people in my life who I have learned from and who have helped me grow as a person, but I’m not sure if there is a “most important person” in my life. I have a father who provided me with a lot of positive experiences growing up but who was also a workaholic and wasn’t around to be the father figure I needed/wanted him to be. With him not being around, my mother took on a larger role in my life but her judgement and concerns made me distance myself from her. I’m actually not really close to any of family, certainly not in the way that I see others and their family relationships. I’m jealous of those who are close to their family and feel grateful that my girlfriend’s parents have almost adopted me as a second son. It feels good to be loved and wanted.
I think close friends play the largest role in my life but most of them are back in my hometown. I have friends where I live currently, but I don’t connect with them on a deeper level and they’re moral compasses don’t align with my own (i.e. “Let’s all go to a strip club on thursday night!”).
I think the most important person in the world is myself, but it’s not something I’m fully cognizant of on a day-to-day basis. As a result of not realizing my own importance, I tend not to put focus and effort on myself in order to heal and grow and instead focus on others as a way of avoiding confronting the things about myself that I don’t like. I’ve come to realize that in order to truly open my heart and love others to the best of my ability, I need to learn to love myself first. I’m unsure how to being that learning process but I hope that the accelerating energies coming in the years ahead will help to bring focus and clarity as to where I should direct my life and help me to love and heal myself.
Today I actually wanted to read all you guys have put in because I felt a connection to what you are saying. We are all alike and we are all different. We even have the same kind of people around us.
Who Is the Most Important Person to You in the World?
My brother. He is the only person (there can’t be a second) who understands exactly what I mean.
And parents?
You fight with your parents a lot. But you invariably appreciate them more every year as you get older!
Would I regret it if I had to say bye for good?
I am in frequent contact with my brother (who is overseas) and email him jokes all the time. But I haven’t really spoken with him. So it is time to reconnect a little again? Then I wouldn’t regret it if I had to say bye.
Me.
I’m the one person I can fully trust, the one person that will make me realize what my abilities are and what I am worth.
I am the most important person in the world to me.
It is through my senses and my body that I experience the world.
It is through my mind that I am able to learn and understand my experiences.
It is through my experience that I gain wisdom and personal growth.
It is through my personal growth that I learn to take good care of myself.
When I take good care of myself, I am able to be a better person for other people; I am most able to serve and relate to other people with personal excellence.
I am the most important person to myself because this is how I am able have relationships with all the other wonderful people in my life!
I think one of the most important person in my life is my Mom. She had sacrifice so much for us. She worked and loved us the way she can and I will always be grateful for all of the things she had taught us about life. :D
My son is the most important person in the world to me. He has brought more genuine love, warmth and caring to my world than anyone ever has. I haven’t always been there in recent years as I once was and always told him/thought for sure I would and it has taken a toll on his light. He is still a true joy but I need to get my life in order not only for my own sake, but because he has no one else to set an example for him – and unfortunately, I know all to well what that is like. He never stopped being important to me, but I was dragged away but what life threw at me, He has the most beautiful genuine smile and the greatest sense of humor. He is very caring and considerate. He is intelligent and gifted. And so much more. I want to be all that to him again.
I love my mum so much! I can´t driscribe her with words, she is just perfect. She´s always been there for me no matter what happened, she has given me freedom and support, she let me live my life and I thank her so much for that. She is always thinking of me, she always remembers if I have an exam or something important and calls me or leaves a message wishing me good luck. I can talk to her about anything and she always gives me good advice.
Mom, I love you so much!!
The most important person in the world is I. I cannot see how anything in this world would matter if I am not the most important person in my life. How can I manage making any one person, a priority if I am not the MOST important person in my life? I am my biggest critic. My biggest fan. My own best friend. It’s me first so than I may take great care of those that matter most to me.
Reading your post reminded me of a saying that I heard a long time ago.
“Never make anyone your priority if they are only seeing you as an option” ~Unknown
You see to have that well under control.
Thanks! I hope so. I am continuing to grow and learn every single day. We all learn by trial right?
This is a very difficult question for me. I’ve had to think a lot about this… the answer is still not very clear.
My first shortlist would be my husband, my daughter, my son and my mother. They each have a very special role in my life, but it feels difficult to choose one over the other. My father who died 11 years back is still very much present in my life, and is my inspiration and my role model. In many difficult situations, I still think about him and how he would deal with it, and I imagine the advice he would give.
And also, as many people have already said, there is ME. I work hard at improving me, spending long hours studying, reading, on self improvement – all for a better me – definitely ME is important as well.
But to choose one only ?? I’ve imagined all of us in a life-death situation – who would I save first? Definitely not Me. By elimination, I’m left with my two kids. I will not be able to choose between any one of them….both of them are too important to me.
Wow Ish….I liked your imagination of life-death situation….obviously being a mother your kids will be the most important to you. :)
May God shower the life of your kids with Happiness and Success!
Quite frankly, I am not sure if I have met THAT important person yet. For the time being thought, I am going to go with my mom. She has taken care of me for such a long time. No one else is even close enough to be considered as important as her. Until that special someone comes on board, my mom will be second to none. For that, I am grateful.
This question is probably the most difficult for me to answer. I have, in my whole life, never met an enemy. When I meet someone they are my friend until they give me reason to not be my friend and then they are not my enemy, just some who chose to not be in my life any more, this does not make them an enemy, just no longer a personal friend.
My husband Randy is very important to me because he makes me better than I could be by myself. He gives me the strength to move forward, try new things, believe in my abilities. He is my cheerleader as it were. We have a very unique relationship and I know that I am loved by him with no questions, regardless of my mood, choices, family, etc.
My sons, Michael James and Seth Calvin are very important to me. They were a blessing and a gift from God to me in my youth. They have grown to be good men and they will continue to be great men for an eternity, if only in my heart.
My Dad is a great man and very important to me. But the Dad I knew prior to my mother’s death no longer exists in my life. He died with her that day. His body remains but the man I knew no longer resides within his heart, at least to my understanding. I have never lost a spouse that I spent 40+ years with so maybe this emotional change was necessary for him to move forward and not physically die with her. But I truly miss my Dad.
My Mom was a great lady, but she is no longer in my life. My memory is different from her reality and I have over the past 3 years lost much. She, in reality, was hard on me. She demanded that I act certain ways and there were many things that I did not get to do as a teen that my friends got to do. But then I look at many of the people that I hung around with in my teen years and I realize that maybe Momma was not so wrong after all. Because of curfews I was not getting into the trouble they were, because of rules to follow I was not tearing up someone’s yard with my 4 wheel drive vehicle, because of Momma I have good values and I treat others as I would like them to treat those I love the most.
My granddaughter (s) Melissa Jane and Dawneisha Dally and my grandson James Michael are also important to me. They are very important in my life. They leave a legacy for me in the future. They are a part of me that will continue to go forward into the world and regardless of my non-existence they exist so therefore so do I.
There are so many friends in my life that have made such a difference in who I was at the time that they were active in my life that it is important to me to note their importance in my life. It may have only been for a short time but without their influence I would not be who I am today nor would I be working on who I am becoming.
Everyone we meet, be it in real life or in our virtual world that has become so much a part of our lives in this day and age, affect us somehow. We gain from them a little more of an understanding and desire to improve the who we know we are. A like on a Facebook post from someone we have never actually met, a comment to a blog that we did not expect for anyone to read, a smile from a stranger in a store that we have seen many times yet never acknowledge, anything that another does that touches us in some/any way is important to us because it becomes a part of who we are thereby making that person important in our lives and moving us closer to our ideal self. I can also acknowledge those that have moved me from my ideal self because of the things they have done/said to/about me. However, these events/happenings also move me toward my ideal self in that they make me examine and evaluate those individuals as a part of my life and make the necessary changes to improve the individuals that are active in my life.
After all this writing, I have re-read this and have come to the conclusion that the most important person(s) in my life is me, myself, and I. If I can love me I can allow others to love me, If I am happy within my self than I see that those around me are also happier. How I feel, act, and think are expressions of all those who are important in my life. Does that seem selfish, it feels that way. But then this is a journey of self evaluation and examination, learning more about who I am and who I am meant to be in this life. Gaining an understanding……hmmm.
I have answered this question time ago, since I was 5 to be correct. My most important people in the world are my brothers. When I was 5 i was having a very hard time, even thought i did had an excellent childhood, and I found strength only when my twin brother come to life :). When they come to life i put my self a purpose, a very big one for a child of 5. I promised that I would never allow them to pass such a hard time like I was passing and that I would always protect them and helped them and made the impassible for them to have everything that they wanted. It worked both ways, I gave myself strength to move foreword, and my brothers found a sister that would give the world for them.
I’m blessed to have a large, loving extended family and a lot of dear friends, but the single most important person to me is my fiance. It’s kind of amazing because we didn’t even know each other three years ago. We just have such a strong connection, spend all hours of every day together and are 100 percent supportive of each other.
It’s like I’ve finally found the person who fits perfectly with me. Beyond our wonderful romantic compatibility, we are perfectly suited to be life partners. I never really understood this concept before, even though I watched my parents live it. My own marriage- though it was good in many ways- had too much tension in it for us to be on the same page about where we were going and how we were going to do it.
It’s so different with my fiance. We trust each other completely, and I don’t have to worry that the decisions he makes won’t be good for both of us. By the same token, he’s foremost in my mind when I decide anything. We have complete love and respect for each other as people, so we each value the other’s opinion and advice. Frankly, it’s a relief to be with someone I can so rely on to look out for me and who I know will do the right thing for both of us.
For far too short a time my mother was the most important person in my life. She shaped me, molded me, made me an independent, spirited, adventurous, thinking person. and how I wished she’d been able to stay with me for many more years, but that was not to be. so in the process I tried very hard to instill the same qualities in my children and I think I succeeded. After my mom, I think I’d have to agree with some of the other posts and say myself because I’m the only person I have to live with my entire life. everything and everyone else is transitory.
I have four people that are very important to me: my grandfather, mother, father and brother. I thought about this question during the whole day and came to the conclusion that, even thou I love them all the same way and find them all equally important to me, my mother was the person that DESERVES the title of “The Person Most Important To Me in the World”.
She is not only my role model but she was also the one that was always besides me through my worst times and supported me in everything she could, even if that meant she had to make many sacrifices to do so. For good or for worse she always loved me unconditionally. And I know this is something that, will never change =^.^=
But even having reached this conclusion I can’t stop thinking about my grandfather… I guess that even thou I know my mother is my most important person in the world I feel that deep down my grandfather holds a place in my heart that I don’t believe anyone else does. Each time I see him my whole world seems to become brighter and I can’t help but smile and give him a big hug =3 I swear that if heaven exists my grandfather most certainly deserves to enter.
Like I said in the beginning it was incredibly hard for me to decide who I should choose because I believe these people are all equally VERY important to me. My amazing mother, my adored grandfather, my daddy <3 and my little brother in arms! =^^=
I look eagerly anticipate each new question and hope there is a set time each day I can read it!
In my family we have 5 members :
Mother
Father
My Wife and
My son
I love all of them. My family is incomplete, if anyone of them is missing.All are Most important for me. Hence I can say that all are IMP for me.
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