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When you are on a quest to improve yourself, it is only right that you take a step back once in a while and look at how you’ve progressed thus far. Hard work and dedication deserve proper attention.The problem is: When you do that, you will sometimes find that you can’t figure out what to work on next. You know that you’re not “there” yet, but you’re unsure as to how to proceed. This doesn’t always happen, but I guarantee that if you keep at it long enough, it will happen eventually.
What to do?
The best thing to try is to simply start probing at any edges that you haven’t been to in a while. This will be a little difficult because the areas that we’re looking at are half-buried by your conscious mind. Look in the shadowy areas. Have a fear of public speaking? Have a rage trigger that you haven’t cleared out yet? How about that project you have been on the verge of starting for the last year? Nevermind the project: What has been stopping you? Is there something that you’ve been meaning to start up but you’re getting inner resistance of some kind?
As soon as you “pick up the scent”, follow it until you have found the source of the problem. Then (and this bit is important) Write. It. Down. If you don’t write it down, your mind will reflexively bury it again, and you will remember that it was something, but you won’t be able to remember what it was or exactly how you found it in the first place.
When most people start working on self-development, it is a matter of putting out fires. Eventually, it becomes not a matter of putting out fires, but sniffing for smoke…. and then put out the fire 
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