Examples of Self-Awareness Archives – Page 10 of 45

Self-Awareness Facilitates Team Building and Reduces Conflict in the Workplace

November 12, 2023 - The Self-Awareness Guy

Conflict in the workplace can be painful and sap your energy. My clients who lack self-awareness often ask me what to do about a employee who they can’t get along with or people who are in constant conflict. It can be tricky to deal with workplace conflict because most organizations don’t have strategies beyond reprimands and other punishments.

Our workplaces are often places where we give people a free pass to hurt each other because we lack the self-awareness to do anything else. We like to think we know how to deal with conflict but we end up enduring feuds that last years.

So how can you reduce conflict in your workplace and increase self-awareness? Here’s a couple of ideas to think about:

1. Develop a strategy to deal with conflict. Set up clear goals, expectations and parameters and ask for input from leadership and staff.

2. Inform everyone that this is the new way of doing things and train them to make sure everyone is on the same page.

3. Inform your workplace that you have resources in place to help people work things out.

4. Work with your leaders and employees to give them the skills to resolve their own conflicts.

5. Set the example and consistently behave in a way that reduces conflict.

6. Develop an ongoing conflict resolution training program and participate actively in it.

7. Expect resistance to your new ideas about conflict. Things will settle in once you train people and they get a chance to practice the new skills.

Healthy workplaces help their leaders and employees resolve their own conflicts in peaceful and lasting ways. As a leader, you set the example for how conflict is viewed and dealt with in your organization. You can start designing a conflict resolution program today that will help you create a workplace where people get along and aren’t at each other’s throats all the time.

What will you do to develop self-awareness, build stronger teams, and reduce conflict in your workplace?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Your Perspective

November 7, 2023 - The Self-Awareness Guy

Perspective affects everything you do in life. For example: A person in Bangladesh living in complete poverty can be very happy while a person in an affluent neighborhood in the United States can be miserable. Your level of self-awareness affects your perspective on life because, when you’re comfortable with your thoughts, feelings and behaviors, you’re able to maintain a positive outlook.

Perspective is the way you see the world based on your self-awareness and personal experiences. If you filter out the positive, you tend to focus on the things that aren’t going well. If you filter out the negative, you’re better able to see the beneficial side of things. A great example of perspective is found in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Tiny Tim doesn’t have use of his legs but he doesn’t wallow in self pity, he forges on and is a source of strength for his family.

You’re faced with important choices throughout your life. At any moment you can choose your perspective and that will lead you down a certain path. Try this simple exercise: The next time you feel you can’t overcome an obstacle, consciously tell yourself, “I can handle this,” or some other positive affirmation. This will help you shift from a negative to a positive perspective.

It’s amazing what can happen when you choose a perspective that gives you the power to move forward rather than staying stuck. What will you do to view the world from a positive perspective?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Healing Your Hurts

November 2, 2023 - The Self-Awareness Guy

Self-awareness helps you begin healing your hurts by encouraging you to take a conscious look at the things that bring you discomfort in life and that need some attention. Many people walk through life carrying some unresolved pain that keeps them from being a genuinely happy, expansive person. It’s impossible to live fully or authentically if you allow certain memories to hold you back. The good news is that you can use self-awareness to examine who you are and deal with the challenges from your past.

Healing your hurts isn’t easy because you have to revisit parts of your life that may be unpleasant. The key to successfully moving past the pain is to acknowledge it’s there and do everything in your power to resolve it and move past it. Once you understand and deal with the thoughts and emotions related to difficult issues, you provide yourself a new opportunity to live based on the wonderful things about you rather than being held back by the pain. What will you do to use self-awareness to start healing your hurts?

Cheers,

Guy

Characteristics of a Self-Aware Person

October 28, 2023 - The Self-Awareness Guy

The key to self-awareness is to understand how your thoughts, emotions and behaviors affect you and others so that you can live a deeply meaningful, fulfilling life without the junk that gets in the way of being effective, balanced or happy. Here are some of the characteristics of a self-aware person:

You’re willing to look at yourself honestly.
You let go of what doesn’t work.
You celebrate the things you do well.
You understand how your behaviors affect others.
You work on being as healthy as possible.
You work on living a life of balance instead of extremes.
You say you’re happy only when you really are.
You continue taking steps to understand yourself.
You allow yourself to be vulnerable.
You keep learning about yourself.
You work toward achieving enlightenment.
You’re comfortable with being touchy-feely.
You work on resolving the psychological issues that hold you back.
You feel your emotions.
You live your life authentically.
You take steps every day to make your dreams come true.

Imagine if you did things like these and how your life would be impacted. Remember that you don’t have to do everything at once, pick one thing you’d like to work on and practice it until it becomes second nature, then move on to the next. Over time, you’ll become a more self-aware person.

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Inner Peace

October 28, 2023 - The Self-Awareness Guy

When you possess a high level of self-awareness you also experience inner peace because, when you know yourself well, you let go of a lot of the noise that gets in the way of feeling great about yourself and living the life you want to. Here are some ways self-awareness leads to inner peace:

You actively work on healing your hurts so you can feel better about yourself.
You look deep inside and discover who you really are and then live your life accordingly.
You become familiar with the things you do well and the things you need to improve so you can be a more effective person.
You let go of superficial concerns and focus on the things that really matter.
You attract healthier relationships because you’re healthier.
Each day become an opportunity to learn and grow.
You feel a sense of calm inside because you are more in tune with who you are.
You do kind things for yourself and others.
You make the world a better place for yourself and others.
Your life is more fulfilling and joyful.

A lot of people never achieve inner peace because they forget to look within. Self-awareness allow you to intimately understand who you are and live life as the real you. When you wake up each day able to enjoy being yourself, your whole existence changes.

Cheers,

Guy

How to Be Self-Aware

October 23, 2023 - The Self-Awareness Guy

Here are some tips on how to be self-aware:

Understand how your emotions affect you and others.
Understand how your thinking affects you and others.
Understand how your behaviors affect you and others.
Do something each day to heal the hurts from your past.
Understand where you end and others begin.
Get rid of the emotions, thoughts, and behaviors that affect you and others negatively.
Work on being the real you.
Work on being genuinely happy, not just pretending you are.
Be the most kind and compassionate person you can be.
Do the things you really love doing.

Having self-awareness means that you deeply know how your emotions, thoughts, and actions affect you and the people around you. When you’re self-aware, you’re able to manage yourself in such a way that you live a happy, fulfilling, balanced life. It’s the difference between living consciously and stumbling through life reacting to everything.

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Envisioning Your Future

October 18, 2023 - The Self-Awareness Guy

A lot of people stumble along their self-awareness journey because they forget to visualize what they want to achieve. The key to successful personal development is to be able to envision yourself as being the person you want to be. Take some time to picture what your goal is; what it feels like; what you see; what’s happening around you. Let go of negative thoughts that tell you can’t do it or other noise that only gets in the way. Picture success and you’ll head in that direction.

You might find it helpful to consider the following ideas to help you build your self-awareness and vision:

Look deep inside yourself and identify what you really want to do in life.
Pick one thing to start working on.
Do one small thing each day to work toward your goal.
Keep doing small things until you feel like you’ve reached your goal.
When you reach your goal, evaluate what you did well and what you would improve.
Start the process over again.

Picturing your future doesn’t require some magic insight, all you have to do is take action each day to move in the direction of your dreams. Remember that it’s the act of continuously doing small things that will get you where you want to be. Along the way you’ll learn and grow and become more self-aware.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and envision your future?

Cheers,

Guy