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Self-Awareness and Negative Beliefs - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Negative Beliefs

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When you possess a high degree of self-awareness you tend to bypass negative beliefs because you have a more complete understanding of what’s really going on inside and around you and how you can move things in a positive direction rather than staying stuck in fear, superstition, inaction or inauthenticity. Here are some ideas to help you reduce the negativity:

  • Realize that you can’t possibly control everything around you.
  • Work actively on understanding yourself on a deeper level.
  • Take action each day to do things that are meaningful to you.
  • Believe that your perception of the world doesn’t have to be negative.
  • See the big picture rather than getting mired in endless detail.
  • Focus on what’s going well.
  • Learn to redirect negative feelings and replace them with positive alternatives.

Negative people and events can’t hold you back if you don’t let them. You have many options available to you rather than despairing or giving up, what will you do to increase your self-awareness and get rid of negative beliefs?

Cheers,

Guy

Rigid Thinking Means Lack of Self-Awareness - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Rigid Thinking Means Lack of Self-Awareness

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Rigid thinking reflects a lack of self-awareness and often leads to unhappiness and imbalance, yet many people hang on to one set of thoughts and behaviors throughout their entire lives. They do this because they’re unwilling or unable to consider any other point of view other than their own, usually because they feel that something negative will happen if they consider other options. Some people genuinely believe that they’ll look weak if they change their minds, others are afraid that their carefully constructed world will come tumbling down.

It can be daunting when you realize that your former views don’t fit the situation you’re facing or that you don’t have the tools to deal with new circumstances. Thankfully, human beings are able to raise their self-awareness, change their thinking patterns and acquire new information. Here are some ideas to help you expand your thinking:

  • Actively research and read from many sources.
  • Learn about other points of view.
  • Challenge yourself to look at a situation from a different perspective.
  • Tell yourself the world won’t end if you change your thoughts.
  • Become stronger by learning new things.
  • Listen to what others say and consider their views.
  • Be optimistic that new views can be beneficial.
  • Welcome change into your life.
  • Consider thinking in a way that brings you joy.
  • Think in ways that add to your self-awareness and help you grow.
  • Identify ways to build bridges.
  • Think compassionately.

When you think openly, it helps you find a point of view that brings you genuine, deep happiness and fulfillment rather than covering up your warts or enabling you to barely make it through the day. New ideas and information can help you thrive and succeed in ways you might have not even imagined before. What will you do to improve your self-awareness and think optimistically and openly?

Cheers,

Guy

Making Sense of the World around You with Self-Awareness - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Making Sense of the World around You with Self-Awareness

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Making sense of the world around you can be a scary endeavor but self-awareness can help you do it because, when you are in touch with why you feel, think, and behave the way you do, you understand yourself, others, and the world around you better.

A lot of people look to external sources without realizing that they have all the answers they need inside. Right this moment, you possess within you the capacity to build your self-awareness and find the answers you need. If you’re trying to make sense of an often chaotic, difficult, tragic, and arbitrary world, you have the ability to do things to soothe yourself and find meaning and purpose. Try these ideas to get you on your true path:

  • Do things that build you up inside.
  • Learn how to love yourself.
  • Find answers to the difficult questions in life inside you.
  • Look internally rather than externally for answers.
  • Realize that the world doesn’t always make sense and often is chaotic and random but that you can find inner peace regardless of the situation.
  • Find your true path in life and follow it.
  • Realize that making sense of the world is a process that begins with first knowing yourself well and then applying your wisdom to everything else.
  • Turn negative situations into opportunities to learn and grow.

Trying doing one of these things and then check in with yourself, then do another. As you keep working on yourself, you’ll be building self-awareness and learn how to overcome any obstacle that comes your way. What will you do to develop your self-awareness and make sense of the world around you?

Cheers,

Guy

Using Self-Awareness to Take Care of Yourself at Work - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Using Self-Awareness to Take Care of Yourself at Work

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Self-awareness can help you take care of yourself at work. We’re not always taught how to look after ourselves at work. We pack our work lives full of activities and tasks but we don’t take the time to nurture ourselves. Building your self-awareness and taking care of yourself is important because it makes you more effective in all areas of your work experience and helps you recharge your batteries.

Try these ideas to bring some balance into your work life and smooth out some of the bumps.

  1. Stop. Take a moment during your day to do nothing and just relax. Lie down, take a nap, go for a walk or just look outside. The idea is to just stop and enjoy a slower pace.
  2. Breathe. Take deep breaths, slow and controlled. Inhale fully and exhale. Think of yourself inhaling serenity and exhaling stress.
  3. Think of something joyful and fun. Sweep aside all the garbled noise that clutters your brain and focus on thinking of something that makes you feel great.
  4. Find a way to vent. Find someone who will listen to you without interrupting and who will simply be there for you to talk about whatever you want.
  5. Celebrate yourself. Do nice things for yourself that don’t cost money. Give yourself a pat on the back and give yourself kudos for the things you’ve accomplished.

The key to taking care of yourself at work is to forget about others and focus on you. Try the ideas we’ve discussed here to introduce some calm into your work life and heal yourself. You deserve it.

What will you do to increase your self-awareness and take care of yourself at work?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Aware People Are Open-Minded - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Aware People Are Open-Minded

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People who possess self-awareness tend to be open-minded because they are able to examine, reflect upon, and even critique themselves. When you’re open-minded you do things like:

  • Examine yourself.
  • Welcome new points of view.
  • Change your mind.
  • See things from various perspectives.
  • Venture into the dark side as well as the light.
  • See each day as an opportunity to explore something.
  • Share your deeper self with the world.

If you’re closed-minded you do the opposite of these things and you live a very different kind of life. One of the reasons I love providing life guidance, workshops, and retreats for people who value self-awareness is that they are receptive to new and interesting ways of seeing things.

Cheers,

Guy

What Are the Benefits of Self-Awareness? - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

What Are the Benefits of Self-Awareness?

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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 - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Aware People Treat Others Well

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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

The Self-Awareness Guy