Removing confusion is vital and takes work. Taking the time to gain clarity regularly on the following is beneficial:

• Knowing your self: discovering one’s purpose, sensitivities, body, emotions
• Knowing your life: awareness of the people in it: the time that they take; their abilities, goals and interests; awareness of your responsibilities towards your-
• self and others
• Having a mantra or image that addresses your most common reason for ‘losing your cool’
• Creating a vision board of your values, limits, beliefs, etc.
• Working on a yearly plan addressing all areas of your life
• Identifying a yearly direction that addresses most of the yearly plan (eg. increasing sleep could address lack of clarity, impatience, time wasting)
• Identifying the help you need in the form you need it (eg. gym, holidays, friends, role models, experts)
• Behaving with kindness and empathy towards yourself
• The relationship you have with yourself: hearing your inner dialogue re how you feel and what objective internal or external actions could help you
• Understanding your needs and figuring out how to get them met.