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What Are the Benefits of Self-Awareness?

November 1, 2024 - The Self-Awareness Guy

A lot of people ask me, “What are the benefits of self-awareness?” Here are some examples:

You know yourself better, you understand your strengths and areas for improvement.
You live as the real you, not someone else.
You heal the hurts from your past.
You live consciously, following your true path in life instead of just letting things randomly happen to you.
You learn how to emphasize the positive aspects of your personality.
Your thoughts match your actions and move in a positive direction.
You live courageously instead of fearfully.
You avoid making the same mistakes over and over.
You get along well with other people and enjoy more fulfilling relationships.
You do nice things for others.
You’re open to a wide range of ideas and experiences.
You make the world a better place.
You shine.

If you think about it, self-awareness just means that you know yourself so well that you become amazingly happy and balanced, which in turn allows you to live a wonderful life.

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Aware People Treat Others Well

October 22, 2024 - The Self-Awareness Guy

A big part of self-awareness is to be so happy with yourself that it influences your interactions with others positively. It means that you’re healthy, balanced and able to treat others well. When people are unhappy they tend to put their problems on others and interact in less than optimal ways. The better you feel about yourself, the better you’ll treat others and the more positive results you’ll experience.

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Dismissing the Difficult Questions in Life

October 12, 2024 - The Self-Awareness Guy

Many people who lack self-awareness make a habit of dismissing the difficult questions in life like:

Why am I here?
Who am I?
What do I really want to do in life?
What is the meaning of life?
Why do I have to die?
What happens when I die?
What brings me deeper meaning in life?
What issues do I need to heal to live more fully?
How do I find inner peace and balance?
What kind of a person am I?
How can I help resolve the formidable issues facing humanity?

When people are confronted with daunting, complex, challenging questions that make them uncomfortable, they often stick their heads in the sand. Some individuals spend their whole lives avoiding even thinking about these issues, not realizing that it’s crucial to find the answers in order to live meaningfully and happily.

The more you know yourself, the easier it is to contemplate even the most mystifying conundrums because you can draw upon a deep reservoir of inner knowledge, understanding, and insight which allows you to think creatively and expansively. What will you do to answer the difficult questions in life?

Take care

Guy

Self-Awareness and Stepping Outside Your Comfort Zone

October 12, 2024 - The Self-Awareness Guy

When you possess a high level of self-awareness you’re able to step outside your comfort zone more easily because you understand your strengths and abilities as well as your areas for improvement. The reason so many people have a difficult time with change is that they only know how to do things one way and don’t realize that there may be other equally or more viable options available to them. Here are some tips to build your self-awareness and move in a positive direction:

Recognize that you’re uncomfortable.
Remind yourself that you can handle anything.
Remind yourself that you have options.
Make a list of positive alternatives to what you are doing right now.
Pick one of the alternatives and start working on it.
Practice your new approach until you get good at it.
If you run into another wall, repeat the process.

Discomfort often comes from not realizing that there are many other opportunities available to you. The next time you feel like you can’t do something or it’s too daunting, take a deep breath and deliberately walk yourself through this process instead of doing what you’ve always done. What will you do to begin consciously stepping outside your comfort zone?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Emotional Intelligence in Relationships

October 2, 2024 - The Self-Awareness Guy

Have you ever had a relationship that isn’t going well and you have no idea how to improve it? Do you have a pattern of relationships that are permeated with discomfort and conflict?

In order to develop self-awareness and emotional intelligence in relationships, it is vital to to start building up your ability to deal with and manage your own emotions, as well as how you relate to other people’s emotions. Here are some examples of self-awareness and emotional intelligence in relationships:

One person gets angry and the other person recognizes that there is an emotion under there and simply listens to the other person talk about it.
Something stressful is happening in the relationship and both individuals are able to identify their emotions and use them to improve the situation.
An emotion comes up and the other person doesn’t feel threatened and doesn’t react or fight back.
Both individuals in the relationship are comfortable with their own emotions and each others’.
Both individuals have empathy for the other.
Both individuals are able to reason and problem solve because they can manage their own emotions.
The relationship has a natural, calm, safe, healthy feeling.

Imagine how you would feel if the examples above were a part of your relationships. How many of these things do you currently do? Most people don’t have relationships like this because they haven’t learned how build self-awareness and use their emotions positively. Here are some ideas on how to start being self-aware, comfortable with your and other people’s emotions, and create more enjoyable relationships:

Learn to identify and name the emotion you’re feeling, and do the same for other people.
Shift from seeing your emotions as a threat or something to be avoided and start feeling them and using them to move in a positive direction.
Learn how to experience your emotions and see them as a normal part of life.
Learn how to deal with and manage your emotions so you can make positive decisions.
Stop reacting to other people, let them experience their emotions without getting in the way or making it about you.
Stop thinking that other people are trying to harm you with their emotions.
Learn how to just observe and listen when other people are experiencing an emotion. Ask open-ended questions like, “What are you feeling?” or “What’s going on?” and just be there for them.

The key to building self-awareness and emotional intelligence in relationships is to practice feeling what’s going on inside you, be there for the other person when he/she is feeling something, and then using your self-awareness and emotions to take action in a positive manner. This process requires practice but, over time, you’ll enjoy much deeper, stronger, happier relationships.

What will you do to increase the self-awareness and emotional intelligence in your relationships?

Cheers,

Guy

Choosing Safety or Self-Awareness and Courage

September 2, 2024 - The Self-Awareness Guy

Do you choose safety in life or self-awareness and courage? Your decision will have a major impact on how your life will unfold.

A lot of wonderful people don’t pursue their dreams because they’d rather feel safe than experience heartache and setbacks. Sticking your neck out and showing the world your talent, no matter what happens, is one of the most difficult things for anyone to do. It takes an amazing amount of self-awareness and courage to be who you really are and share it confidently with everyone, including critics and detractors.

If you live for safety you’ll always take the route that leads to maintaining a feeling of being comfortable, and that’s rarely a creative or fulfilling path. If you’re actively striving to make your dreams come true, you know that it can be challenging but at least you’re proving that you have the courage to keep moving forward regardless of what anyone says or any obstacle that presents itself.

The difference between safety and courage is that playing it safe keeps you stuck and unhappy, often for a lifetime. Thankfully, you can always choose to build up your self-awareness, understand your strengths and areas for improvement, and take action each day to make your dreams come true. What will you do to choose self-awareness and courage instead of safety?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Means Looking Inside Yourself

August 23, 2024 - The Self-Awareness Guy - 2 Comments

Self-awareness means looking inside yourself rather than relying on outside influences, entities, or events to make you happy in life. Countless people spend inordinate amounts of time living based on what some outside person or entity tells them to do, or reacting to whatever circumstance they find themselves in, rather than charting a course based on who they are deep inside and what they find meaningful and fulfilling. The key to being truly happy in life is being able to look inside yourself and:

Define who you really are.
Discover your true inner voice.
Determine what you really want to do in life.
Figure out what you need to do to live authentically.

When you do these things you’ll live life based on what’s inside you rather than always reacting to outside people and situations. It’s up to you whether you live life consciously or passively. What will you do to look inside yourself?

Cheers,

Guy