Examples of Self-Awareness

What Self-Awareness Isn't - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

What Self-Awareness Isn’t

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A lot of people think self-awareness happens simply by saying you have it. This leads to people insisting that they understand themselves well while leaving a trail of destruction wherever they go. Here are some examples of what self-awareness isn’t:

  • Saying you do one thing and then doing another.
  • Having various parts of your life in conflict.
  • Saying you care about people but treating certain ones poorly.
  • Insisting you’re happy and balanced when you have a lot of unfinished inner business to deal with.
  • You say you love yourself but you do things that hurt you.
  • Thinking and behaving in ways that hurt others.
  • Saying that other people don’t have self-awareness and then doing things that demonstrate you don’t.

Getting to know yourself well is an ongoing process where you comprehend why you think and do certain things and continuously move your life in a positive direction. You become so comfortable with yourself that you treat others with great care and compassion because you’re deeply happy inside. What will you do to keep building self-awareness?

Cheers,

Guy

Self Awareness and Saying I'm Sorry - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self Awareness and Saying I’m Sorry

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The ability to say, “I’m sorry,” is a big part of self-awareness. Countless misunderstandings and conflicts arise because people are unwilling to back down or admit that they made a mistake. The irony is that, in trying to avoid being wrong, people make the situation worse. When something goes awry, it’s much more productive to think in these types of terms:

  • There’s nothing wrong with making a mistake.
  • You don’t have to be right all the time to be a good person.
  • It’s positive to take the other person’s feelings into account.
  • You can learn and grow by examining what you did.
  • You don’t have to win.
  • You don’t have to save face.
  • Admitting you made a mistake is a positive sign of self-awareness.
  • You take responsibility for your actions and how they affect others.
  • You’re healthy enough to not have to dominate or control others.

Saying, “I’m sorry,” doesn’t mean that you let people step all over you, it’s simply an acknowledgement that you’re willing and able to reflect on what you did and work on improving the situation. Self-awareness allows you to step back, evaluate your thoughts and behaviors, take responsibility, and make corrections. What will you do to say, “I’m sorry,” more freely?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Can Help You Completely Change Your Life - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness Can Help You Completely Change Your Life

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Self-awareness can help you completely change your life because it allows you to take an honest look at yourself and make adjustments based on who you really are deep down inside. Here are some practical steps you can take that will help you change your life:

  1. Think of the thing you want to change.
  2. Think of three things you can do to achieve what you want.
  3. Pick one of those items and start taking action to make it come true.
  4. Check in with yourself to see how you’re progressing. If you’re not seeing results, pick another item and work on it.
  5. Once you’ve achieved what you want, start the process again from the beginning.
  6. Celebrate your accomplishments in a positive way.

The purposeful act of choosing to do something and then following through helps you achieve whatever you want. It’s the act of taking action that, over time, helps you become an entirely different person.

The key to changing completely in life is to move from wishing it would happen to actually doing stuff that will make it come true. Try these steps today on any goal you want to achieve and follow through until it happens. Along the way you will be experiencing change.

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Creating Change in Your Life - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Creating Change in Your Life

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Self-awareness is a major part of creating change in your life because, when you are in touch with your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, you’re able to consciously move in any direction you wish.

Anyone at any time can make a deliberate decision to change their life. We literally can move our life in any direction we want to. For example: If I decide I want to be an artist today (even if I am not one) I can do specific things to achieve that goal. I could take a class, call some artists, visit some galleries, buy some art supplies, paint a picture, and the list goes on and on. The only thing stopping me is the voice inside my head that tells me I can’t do it. This is the voice that tells me that I will never achieve that, that I should be sensible, that I can’t take a risk, that people will judge me, that my dreams are stupid and that I might as well give up.

This programming is powerful but can be overcome by following these basic steps:

1. Close your eyes and think about what you are telling yourself that stops you.
2. Close your eyes and think back to the first time you heard that message from someone.
3. Picture how your life would be without that message. Develop a short phrase that describes that feeling. For example, “I can be an artist because it’s who I am.”
4. Write down the phrase you come up with.
5. When you wake up in the morning and before you go to bed read the phrase and experience the good feelings that come with it. Repeat for a month and longer.

We play messages in our brains over and over that keep us from being self-aware and doing things we love. Following these basic five steps gives us a chance to introduce a new way of seeing ourselves. Practice it over time (at least a month) to make sure your brain believes in your new way of thinking. If you don’t practice, it won’t stick. Once you’ve shifted your thinking you can move on to a new goal.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and create change in your life?

Cheers,

Guy

7 Self-Awareness Examples - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

7 Self-Awareness Examples

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Here are seven self-awareness examples:

  • Self-awareness is the ability to understand how your thoughts and behaviors affect you and others.
  • Self-awareness is being able to deal positively with all your emotions.
  • Self-awareness means you’re working on healing your inner hurts.
  • Self-awareness means you believe that you can learn and grow.
  • Self-awareness means you see the possibilities in life beyond what you’re currently doing.
  • Self-awareness is the ability to understand yourself so well that you feel healthy and balanced at the deepest levels of your consciousness.
  • Self-awareness means living in a way that brings you joy and does the same for those around you.

Self-awareness isn’t some nebulous, unattainable concept, it simply means that you understand your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors well enough to treat yourself and the people around you well. Try working on any of the items we’ve listed here and you’ll start feeling what it’s like to be self-aware.

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Building Trust - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Building Trust

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Building trust in your personal or professional life requires increasing your self-awareness so you can feel great about yourself and encourage others to do the same. A lot of leaders and individuals walk through life or their workplaces wondering why they can’t trust people or why others won’t trust them. A lack of trust means that the person involved hesitates to get close to anyone because he or she is afraid of being hurt or doesn’t know how to build positive relationships. Here are some practical ways to build trust:

  • Do what you say you’re going to do.
  • Avoid saying one thing and doing another.
  • Behave with kindness and compassion.
  • Be there to help people.
  • Communicate openly.
  • Avoid rumors, gossip and secrets.
  • Listen to people.
  • Trust the other person first.
  • Be open to considering others’ points of view.
  • Have confidence in people’s talents and abilities.
  • Let people shine.

Trust is about you, you either believe it can happen or you don’t. Your thoughts and actions will determine whether you encourage people to be themselves and let them do their thing or continue to think and show them that they’re untrustworthy. You can move in a positive direction any time you choose by healing the parts of you that create the mistrust and behaving in ways that show others that you genuinely and unconditionally value them. How will you trust more?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Honesty - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Honesty

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If you’ve been building your self-awareness over time, you realize how important honesty is to becoming a well-rounded, happy, healthy human being. Personal growth means you’re committed to taking a candid, honest look at your thinking, feelings and behaviors and making positive changes. If you start from a position of trying to hide who you really are or pretending you’re someone else, you’ll likely avoid looking at the areas that could really benefit from some attention. A more effective approach is to decide to improve yourself each day so you can live an open, genuinely fulfilling life without having to cover things up.

A lot of people create unnecessary difficulties in their lives because they refuse to honestly appraise what they think, feel and do. They exist day to day compensating for or tiptoeing around issues that hold them back instead of dealing with them directly and taking action to improve the situation long-term. Self-aware individuals understand that self-examination is a vital, necessary part of personal development. As you live your life, think of the things you do well and the things that hold you back. Work hard to heal the issues in your past that prevent you from completely enjoying your life. Experience the joy that comes from letting go of the things that don’t work and become the healthiest you possible. What will you do to be honest with yourself?

Cheers,

Guy

The Self-Awareness Guy