Fear

How Does Self Awareness Help Us To Succeed?

By becoming more self aware, we gain these important characteristics needed for success.

Focus and Perseverance

Two major factors that determine success are focus and perseverance.  We have to be mentally focused on our goal and be in it for the long haul, no matter what.  What can ever be achieved by listening to self-doubt and switching our goals as soon as things get tough? Doubts, discomfort, and frustrations are part of any change in life, even when they are positive changes. We can’t persevere for very long when we don’t have awareness of our reactions during bumps in our journey.  What do you do when things get tough? Do you view it as a personal failure? When is it difficult to stay focused? These are important questions to ask ourselves.

Honesty and Humility

“Humility is the true key to success. Successful people lose their way at times. They often embrace and overindulge from the fruits of success. Humility halts this arrogance and self-indulging trap. Humble people share the credit and wealth, remaining focused and hungry to continue the journey of success.”

Struggles and frustrations are a normal and necessary part of life. Yet there is this lie the world tells us. That the more we look happy and successful to others, the more we actually are. So we lie to ourselves and others in attempts to hide our struggles. This focus on “image” sabotages success before we even start trying. We need to honestly ask ourselves how much our sense of self is wrapped up in status and reputation.

Is our goal important to us because of the status or reputation we think it will provide?

If so, we are setting ourselves up for failure before we even start.

This is because you will take every mistake, every hick up, and every set back as something huge and horrible and imagine the world laughing at you.

Instead, if we have a strong sense of self and a healthy view of ourselves, those same mistakes will not seem so bad.

Self Acceptance

Our views of ourselves have a lot to do with our success.  We cannot achieve more than we believe we can. So it is important that you truly, wholeheartedly explore negative beliefs about yourself that might be holding you back from success.  This will bring up the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s accepting the bad and the ugly that will increase your personal strength and resilience.

Self Efficacy

The pursuit of any goal requires deep and constant faith in your abilities.  You must believe that you have it within you to improve despite the many, MANY failures and mistakes that will come along during your path to achieving your goal. You have to have a strong sense of self to realize that you always have more to learn, but that you are capable of it with focus and effort. You need to maintain this view of yourself regardless of the scoffing, laughing, and snickering from others. You know yourself best. Sometimes you have to be your own best cheerleader.