How to Truly Know Yourself
The Foundation of Sovereign Leadership
Most people live their entire lives without ever really meeting themselves.
They play roles. They wear masks. They bend to expectations. They avoid their own inner world by burying themselves in work, distractions, or relationships.
But here’s the truth: if you don’t know yourself, you’ll never communicate with clarity, lead with authority, or live with alignment.
So how do you actually get to know yourself?
Not in theory. Not with another self-help cliché. But in practice.
Below are the principles I’ve battle-tested through my own transformation and built into my framework of sovereignty.
1. Fasting & Time-Restricted Eating: Learning to Sit With Yourself
When you strip away food and external stimulation, you meet the raw edge of yourself. Hunger, cravings, emotions, impatience they all rise to the surface.
Fasting is more than a health protocol. It’s a mirror. It forces you to confront impulses you usually drown out with consumption. By sitting in that space, you begin to separate the voice of your higher self from the noise of your urges.
Ask yourself: Who am I without my coping mechanisms?
2. Prayer & Meditation: Building Inner Stillness
The world is loud. Leadership is louder. If you don’t cultivate silence, you’ll drown in other people’s voices.
Prayer and meditation are the practices that re-center you. They create space between stimulus and response. They connect you to something higher than yourself, which paradoxically allows you to finally hear yourself.
Practice: 15 minutes a day of stillness, no agenda, no performance, just presence.
3. Sleep & Recovery: Listening to Your Body’s Truth
Your body speaks. Most ignore it until it breaks.
Sleep and recovery teach you where you’re out of alignment. Anxiety, burnout, emotional reactivity, they’re not random. They’re signals. By respecting your body’s need for rhythm, rest, and recovery, you learn the language of your own nervous system.
Truth: If you can’t lead your body, you can’t lead a team.
4. Macronutrients & Nutrition: Fuel as Frequency
What you put into your body is what you project into the world.
The wrong foods cloud your energy, distort your moods, and block your ability to think clearly. The right foods create stability, clarity, and sustained energy.
Self-knowledge begins with noticing how fuel changes your state. Most people never slow down long enough to see the connection.
Test: Track how different foods affect your clarity, energy, and recovery.
5. Exercise & Movement: Meeting Yourself in Motion
Movement strips away excuses. When you train your body, you come face-to-face with your limits.
The voice that tells you to quit early is the same voice that holds you back in business and relationships. The voice that pushes through is the one you want to amplify.
By moving daily, you not only sculpt your body, you train your spirit.
Frame: Movement isn’t fitness. It’s self-discovery.
6. Communication & Relationships: The Mirror of Others
The way you show up in relationships reveals the truth about how you relate to yourself.
Do you avoid conflict or address it directly? Do you gossip and triangulate, or do you go to the source? Do you listen to understand, or do you defend your ego?
Every interaction is feedback. The more honest you are in relationships, the more honest you become with yourself.
Reminder: The quality of your relationships is a reflection of your inner clarity.
7. Goal Setting & Planning: Designing With Precision
Knowing yourself isn’t just emotional work. It’s structural.
When you set aligned goals and create intentional rhythms, you discover what you really value. Your calendar is a mirror of your soul. If your days are filled with distractions, you’re avoiding yourself. If they’re built around your priorities, you’re living in sovereignty.
Action: Audit your time. Where does it go? Does it reflect who you really are?
The Sovereign Path
Self-knowledge isn’t a one-time revelation. It’s a daily discipline.
By fasting, praying, sleeping, eating clean, moving, communicating directly, and planning intentionally, you build a life that tells you the truth about yourself.
And once you know yourself, you can finally lead, not from ego, but from sovereignty.
Because the greatest danger to any leader, team, or organization isn’t competition.
It’s disconnection from the self.
📅 Join Me Live
On October 2nd at 6:00 p.m. Eastern, I’m hosting a VIP virtual book launch event for my new book From Survival to Sovereignty.
During the short event, you will get immediate access to the book and the 7 Rhythms of Sovereignty so you can immediately apply these rhythm’s to your life and leadership.
👉 Register here to get VIP Access to the BOOK Launch
Don’t miss it — the path to sovereign leadership starts with knowing yourself.
