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Self-Aware People Do One Small Thing at a Time

A major self-awareness building concept is that you don’t have to do everything at once or achieve all your goals immediately. One of the most effective ways to create change in your life is to do one small thing at a time. Each small action gives you the opportunity to celebrate and evaluate how you’re doing. It’s the cumulative effect of all your efforts over time that will lead to success.

Take a moment to think of something you want to achieve in life. Now think of one small thing you can do to make it happen. The point is not to complicate things or overwhelm yourself with too many tasks at once. Pick one manageable thing to do, complete it, then repeat the process.

Consistently taking action in small increments will get you closer to actually doing whatever you want to do in life. Remember that it’s the process that matters, every step you take teaches you something and makes you stronger.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and do small things to make your dreams come true?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Helps You Rewire Your Brain

April 3, 2023 / The Self-Awareness Guy / Self and Self-Awareness, Self-Awareness, Self-Consciousness / A Self-Awareness, Awareness Meaning, Personal Awareness, Self-Awareness Examples

Rewiring your brain is a big part of self-awareness. It means taking a look at the beliefs you’ve carried for many years and are programmed into your thought process. Take a look at the things you believe that don’t help you succeed. Move past those negative messages by replacing them with productive, helpful alternatives.

Our brains are full of all kinds of erroneous information. Self-awareness helps you get in touch with and understand why you think the way you do and why it leads to certain outcomes. For example: If you don’t really love yourself deep inside you might believe that you’ll never succeed in life or have anyone love you or treat you well. You can guess what direction those thoughts will lead you in. The trick is to replace the negative thoughts with positive ones like: you’re worth loving, you can be successful, and you deserve to be treated well.

Every time you have a negative thought you get to choose whether you replace it with a positive one. This gives you an amazing amount of power to move your thinking in any direction you desire. What will you do to develop self-awareness and rewire your brain?

Cheers,

Guy

Your Self-Awareness Plan

April 3, 2023 / The Self-Awareness Guy / Self and Self-Awareness, Self-Awareness / A Self-Awareness, Examples of Self-Awareness, Personal Awareness, Self-Aware

When you create a self-awareness plan it’s important to remember to keep it manageable. You’re far more likely to follow a plan that’s practical and achievable rather than a huge, daunting document that scares you from the very beginning. Here are some ideas to help you develop an achievable self-awareness plan.

Define what area of your life you’d like to focus on.
Brainstorm things you can do to address that particular area.
Pick one brainstorming item and take action.
Evaluate what happens and either go back to step one or pick another brainstorm item.
Repeat the process.

A lot of people get stuck in life because they take on too much at once rather than focusing their energy on one area. Try the process we’ve talked about here and check your progress after one month, three months and six months. You’ll be happy with the results if you stick with it.

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Helps You Love Yourself

April 3, 2023 / The Self-Awareness Guy / Self and Self-Awareness, Self-Consciousness / A Self-Awareness, Awareness Meaning, Examples of Self-Awareness, Lacking Self-Awareness, Personal Awareness

Have you ever met people who say they love themselves but seem angry at the world or always in the middle of some kind of chaos? The general coachline for someone who loves herself is that she becomes more balanced, more accepting, kinder and more happy.

Learning how to love ourselves begins with self-awareness. Do you really love yourself? A good way of finding out is to evaluate whether you do things that help or hurt you in life. List the things that you allow to happen that are uplifting and then a list of the ones that bring you down. Do you have more things in your life that make you feel great or a larger number of disappointments? If you have a significant number of negative items on your list, don’t worry, this just an exercise to give you an idea of what to work on first. Look at your list and pick one thing from the negative side that you want to work on, the one that jumps out at you the most. Congratulate yourself because you have now started the process of working on loving yourself through building up your self-awareness.

Cheers,

Guy

How to Be Happy? Self-Awareness

April 1, 2023 / The Self-Awareness Guy / Self and Self-Awareness / A Self-Awareness, Awareness Meaning, Personal Awareness, Self-Aware

My clients frequently ask me how to be happy. Over the years I’ve noticed that a common characteristic of people who are happy is having a strong awareness of who we are and where we are going. Self-awareness is a deep understanding of who we are. It literally impacts how we treat ourselves and others and what kind of life we live. Let me give you a real world example to illustrate how important it is to get to know yourself.

Person A says he is a happy go lucky person that always is having a great time. He has a lot of friends and says he’s confident and an optimist. He lives a life that looks great to everyone on the outside but, when he has to think about it, Person A is deeply unhappy. He has unresolved issues in his life that are so difficult that he refuses to look at them. So person A appears happy on the outside but inside he is constantly struggling to ignore and cast aside the demons he carries. This type of person is not living a life of self-awareness because he won’t even begin the process of understanding who he is in order to move forward. He chooses instead to live a live of superficial happiness based on appearances.

Person B, on the other hand, also has issues that hurt him deeply and made him unhappy. He also appears happy to the outside world but his happiness comes from a very different place. Person B decided years ago to look at the things that brought him pain. He worked very hard to acknowledge his past and create a plan to move beyond the hurt. When person B is alone he feels genuinely happy because he has actually moved past the challenges in his past. This type of happiness is far more genuine because the person has literally worked through the things that made them unhappy. His happiness is real because it’s based on his deep self-awareness based on facing his hurts.

Genuine happiness comes from deep inside us. It is a level of existence that we achieve only when we work through the challenges from our past. I’m not suggesting that we live in the past but rather that we acknowledge the things that hurt us earlier in life and then develop a plan to move forward. People get caught up in the idea that they have to live in pain if they look at the difficult issues in their life when it really provides an opportunity to go beyond those issues and grow in positive ways. Imagine your life without those nagging things that hold you back. Think about how successful you would be if you didn’t have those voices trying to keep you from succeeding.

Everyone deserves to live a happy life, one where we’re genuinely fulfilled and content. Those who are truly happy have left the burdens of the past behind. Think about it as the difference between living your life with the burden of carrying a giant monkey on your back and never getting rid of it versus letting it go and living a much lighter and energized existence. You will truly enjoy living from a place of authentic happiness free from the worries of the past. It is achievable for everyone but it takes conscious effort and work. Once you do the work the rewards are amazing.

Self-awareness is not about being selfish or self-indulgent, it’s about understanding who you are and constantly working on becoming the best person you can be. You get to be the best you possible and you get to live a life of fulfillment rather than just getting by. Those who choose to be aware of whom they really are enjoy the benefits of living a genuinely happy life.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and be happy?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Trusting Your Inner Voice

April 1, 2023 / The Self-Awareness Guy / Self and Self-Awareness, Self-Awareness, Self-Consciousness / A Self-Awareness, Examples of Self-Awareness, Personal Awareness, Self-Awareness Examples, Self-Knowledge, What Is Self-Awareness

Nothing is a beautiful as the voice inside you. Pay attention to it and you’ll live a life of great self-awareness, success and happiness. Ignore it and you’ll move in a very different direction. Your inner voice is that part of you that tells you what you really want to do in life and who you are deep inside.

Self-awareness means paying attention to your inner voice as it guides you toward living authentically and making your dreams come true. Here are some questions you can ask yourself to begin discovering your true path:

If I could choose any career in life what would it be?
What is the talent I possess that I could use to bring joy into my life?
What message(s) is my inner voice sending me?
How would my life be different if I listened to my inner voice?
What will I commit to doing today to achieve what my inner voice tells me to?

As you answer these questions you’ll begin thinking more deeply about the things you find meaningful and fulfilling. Imagine living your life based on what you want to do rather than settling for whatever comes your way or what other people tell you to do. What will you do to listen to your inner voice?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Moving Your Life in the Direction You Choose

April 1, 2023 / The Self-Awareness Guy / Self and Self-Awareness, Self-Awareness, Self-Consciousness / A Self-Awareness, Personal Awareness, Self-Awareness Examples, Self-Knowledge

A big part of self-awareness is knowing yourself well enough to consciously move your life in any direction you choose. The way you behave each day predicts the results you will get, whether you succeed or stagnate. Here are some practical things you can do to start your journey:

1. Focus on the thing you want to happen, this is your goal.
2. Determine three actions you can take to achieve that specific goal.
3. Pick one action and start following through on it today.
4. When you’ve achieved one goal, move on to the next.
5. Take time to celebrate yourself and your accomplishment.

The purposeful act of following through and taking action trains your mind to take on challenges. When you achieve a goal it gives you strength and courage to keep moving forward in life, you begin to see the power you have over your circumstances, and it also increases your self-awareness.

The key to success in life is going from the thinking phase to the doing part. Try working through the five steps we’ve outlined and keep doing it until you succeed. Along the way you will be practicing the skills necessary to move your life in any direction you choose.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and move your life forward positively?

Cheers,

Guy