Self-Consciousness

Advantages of Self-Awareness - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Advantages of Self-Awareness

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I’m often asked what are the advantages of self-awareness. It’s almost impossible to overestimate the impact self-awareness can have on someone’s life, here are some of the advantages I’ve noticed through years of working with people and organizations over the years:

  • An ability to understand one’s own thoughts, feelings, and actions and manage them positively.
  • Understanding why other people think, feel, and act the way they do.
  • Ability to empathize and practice compassion toward others.
  • Identifying your strengths and areas for improvement.
  • Living your life more authentically because you understand who you really are deep inside.
  • Thinking and behaving more positively because you’ve worked through your stuff.
  • Being more open to new information, experiences, and change.
  • Choosing positive friends and significant others.
  • Being a better leader at work because you’re not working out your issues on others.
  • Feeling more balanced and together.
  • A sense of deeper understanding of yourself and your path in life.
  • A more meaningful and fulfilling life.

There’s no mystery to self-awareness, it’s simply a tool that helps you know so much about yourself that you literally become a happier, more effective human being which, in turn, positively affects you and the people around you. When you possess self-awareness you tap into a stream of consciousness and knowledge that helps you treat yourself and others better, as well as allowing you to make the world a better place. What would you add to this list?

Cheers,
Guy

Self-Awareness and Building Healthy Relationships - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Building Healthy Relationships

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One of the biggest self-awareness challenges is building healthy relationships. As you go through life you’ll have many choices about what kind of people you attract. Here are a few ideas to help you take care of yourself:

  • Be yourself.
  • Heal your inner hurts.
  • Know yourself well, both your strengths and areas for improvement.
  • Follow a path in life that is meaningful to you.
  • Find people who share your interests.
  • Associate with people who treat you well and value who you are.
  • Live a great life and you’ll attract people who appreciate what you’re doing.
  • Don’t settle.

It’s important to treat yourself well in all your relationships. You’re a valuable person who deserves to be around people who help you grow and succeed. The trick to enjoying positive relationships is to look deep inside yourself, heal your hurts, and continue to improve who you are as a person. The more well-adjusted you are, the better your relationships will be.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and build healthy relationships?

Cheers,

Guy

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Self-Aware People Do One Small Thing at a Time

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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

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Self-Awareness Helps You Rewire Your Brain

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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

Self-Awareness Helps You Love Yourself - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness Helps You Love Yourself

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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

Lack of Self-Awareness Is the Root of All Problems in the World - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Lack of Self-Awareness Is the Root of All Problems in the World

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The root of all the problems in the world is people’s inability to deal with emotions. Individuals who have self-awareness are able to identify what they’re feeling, the emotion that drives it, and channel their actions in a positive direction, people who aren’t comfortable dealing with emotions often do things like:

  • Hurt themselves or others.
  • Lash out in anger.
  • Go numb because they don’t want to feel anything.
  • Watch as horrible things happen to others.
  • Seek revenge or retribution.
  • Wish awful things to happen to others.
  • Create roadblocks and make life difficult for others.
  • Become withdrawn or depressed.
  • Sabotage themselves or others.
  • Turn to drugs and alcohol to escape what they’re feeling.
  • Be aggressive toward others to protect their soft insides.
  • Refuse to connect meaningfully with others because it might expose them to feeling something.
  • Accept negative relationships as normal.
  • Accept violence and chaos as normal.
  • Live in fear.

It’s not that people want to do these things, it’s just that their families, friends, societies, and they themselves have grown to believe that this is the only available option. What they may not realize is that they don’t have to live this way, they can actually build self-awareness, get in touch with their emotions, and do things like:

  • Treat themselves and others well.
  • Focus on being joyful.
  • Actively work on experiencing what’s going on inside them.
  • Help other people.
  • Forgive.
  • Wish for good things to happen to others.
  • Make life easier for others.
  • Step out of their shell.
  • Do things to help themselves and others succeed.
  • Experience what’s inside themselves and seek counseling for anything that’s leading them in a negative direction.
  • Be caring toward others.
  • Let people into their lives and show their real selves.
  • Strive to build positive relationships.
  • See kindness and peace as normal.
  • Live with courage.

For every negative approach to dealing with emotions there is a positive counterpart. The key to creating a better world is for people to have the self-awareness to realize when they’re feeling something, identify the emotion beneath it, and deal with it in a positive way. As human beings, we’ve become very skilled at coping with emotions (and the way they make us feel) in profoundly negative ways. The irony is that we can move in a positive direction any time we choose and build a world that benefits everyone.

By the way, if you’re thinking that this type of approach is unrealistic or impossible, you’re behaving like the people in the first list. In order to create a more emotionally healthy world, it’s important to first acknowledge that something is askew and then take conscious steps to move down a different path.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and deal positively with your emotions?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Trusting Your Inner Voice - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Trusting Your Inner Voice

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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:

  1. If I could choose any career in life what would it be?
  2. What is the talent I possess that I could use to bring joy into my life?
  3. What message(s) is my inner voice sending me?
  4. How would my life be different if I listened to my inner voice?
  5. 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

The Self-Awareness Guy