Every man experiences a moment of reckoning at some point in their lives.

The moment where everything you are and everything you have been becomes clear and you instantly realize what you should do from then on.

From that moment, everything becomes much more serious to your eyes.

You will hold onto your responsibilities and take care of them to the best of your capabilities. You will know your purpose and do everything you can to realize your vision of the world.

But what happens before that moment?

I once learned an important lesson that essentially turned me into the man I am now. In this blog post, I want to share that lesson with you.

In the words of the great Jordan Peterson, “You should be humble enough to understand that if you can’t order your own life, you shouldn’t be trying to order anything more complicated than that.”

What those words mean, essentially, is that you cannot expect to change anything in the world when you don’t even have control over your own life.

If you can’t even reach your ideal self and fulfill your values on a daily basis, how do you expect to influence anything else in this world?

What’s more is that even if you try, you are only going to end up making everything worse.

You cannot change anything in this world, or let’s say change anything properly, when you haven’t even figured out your own life.

So, the first step towards achieving anything of value in this world and in the life that is given to you is to figure out yourself. Who are you? What is your purpose?

Are you willing to put everything on the line to achieve that purpose? Can you gather your will and resolve to finally do yourself justice and order everything in your life?

Because if you fail at doing that, you cannot achieve anything greater than yourself.

Coming to terms with yourself and undergoing a journey of self-discovery is absolutely essential before attempting to do anything of importance and value in this world.

Without that sense of keen judgment for the world and yourself, you cannot really deal with anything that goes beyond the threshold of what you can handle.

Without that sense of understanding and wisdom, you cannot have empathy for the things that require your attention.

Having control over your own thoughts and feeling is the most important endeavor that you could undertake in your whole life.

If you don’t, you will always remain a shadow of what you could have been. Your full potential is unlocked only when you decide to deal with matters that are most important… the matters of your personal life.

Get your own life in order and the rest of the world will soon follow!