Self-Awareness
Self-awareness is a vital first step in taking control of your life, creating what you want, and mastering your future. Where you choose to focus your energy, emotions, personality, and reactions determines where you will end up in life.
When you are self-aware, you can see where your thoughts and emotions are guiding you. It also allows you to take control of your actions so you can make the necessary changes to get the outcomes you desire.
This may include changes to your emotions, your behavior, or your personality. Until you achieve this, you will have a hard time making changes in the direction your life is taking you.
How to develop and increase self-awareness:
Look at yourself objectively.
Trying to see yourself as you really are can be a very difficult process, but if you make the right efforts, getting to know your real self can be extremely rewarding. When you are able to see yourself objectively, you can learn how to accept yourself and find ways to improve yourself in the future.
So, what is an easy way to get started with this?
Try to identify your current understanding by writing out your perceptions. This may be things that you think you are good at doing, or that you need to improve.
Think about things you are proud of, or any accomplishments that really stand out throughout your life.
Think about your childhood and what made you happy back then. What has changed and what has remained the same? What are the reasons for the changes?
Encourage others to be honest with you about how they feel about you, and take what they say to heart.
In the end, you will come out with a fresh new perspective on yourself and your life.
Keep a journal.
You can write about anything in your journal, even if it is not related to your goals. Recording your thoughts on paper helps to relieve your mind of those ideas, and clears it up to make space for new information and ideas.
Take some time each night to write in your journal about your thoughts and feelings, and your successes and failures for the day. This will help you grow and move forward in your achievements.
As you self-reflect, take some time to think about how you are a leader, and how people working under you likely view you. Think about what you do to help other people, and if you could possibly do more. What are your values, and what is most important to you right now?
All of these self-reflection questions will help you get a better idea of who you are and what you want out of life right now.
