Examples of Self-Awareness

What Does a Self-Awareness Consultant Do? - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

What Does a Self-Awareness Consultant Do?

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A self-awareness consultant helps you look inside yourself and find the answers that work for you in any given situation. Self-awareness consulting can help you overcome the challenges in your life head on and develop a plan to move forward successfully.

A self-awareness consultant can help you:

1. Figure out what is the issue you are facing.

2. Develop a plan to fix a problem you face.

3. Build on your strengths and abilities.

4. Achieve your goals and dreams.

5. Feel good about yourself.

6. Build your self esteem.

7. Celebrate the great things about you.

8. Live the life you want to live.

9. Share your talents with the world.

10. Find excitement in your life.

11. Build fulfilling relationships.

12. Fix the problems that have been nagging you.

13. Move forward in life.

14. Actually plan your success.

Think of a self-awareness consultant as a person who will listen to you unconditionally and helps you celebrate who you really are. Please feel free to contact me if you are ready to look inside and find the answers you always knew were there. I look forward to hearing from you.

Cheers,

Guy

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8 Benefits of Self-Awareness - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

8 Benefits of Self-Awareness

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As you develop self-awareness, you’ll increase your ability to consciously move your life in any direction you want rather than fumbling around letting things happen to you. Here are eight benefits of self-awareness:

  • You get to take an honest look at yourself.
  • You can evaluate what you do well and what needs adjusting.
  • You can keep what works and get rid of what doesn’t.
  • You can heal your emotional hurts.
  • You become healthy inside and outside.
  • You learn how to treat yourself and others well.
  • You feel, think, and behave in positive ways.
  • You genuinely love yourself.

Imagine what your life would be like if you did these things. Self-awareness is beneficial because it emphasizes getting to know yourself on a deeper level and living life as the authentic you. You get to let go of all the junk that isn’t real and just be yourself. What would you add to this list?

Cheers,

Guy

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

Self-Awareness and Ego

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As you build self-awareness you realize that your ego is simply who you think you are, not who you really are. The key to living a deep, meaningful and fulfilling life is to get in touch with the authentic you by:

  • Being willing to explore yourself and define who you actually are.
  • Identifying what you do well and what areas of your life would benefit from some additional strengthening.
  • Being candid about the hurts you carry and actively working on healing them.
  • Getting rid of the negative voices in your head.
  • Interrupting the patterns that make you unhappy.
  • Letting go of the things you’ve made up about yourself in favor of revealing the real person inside.
  • Reaching a point where you’re so healthy and balanced that you treat yourself and others wonderfully.
  • Connecting with everyone and everything else in the universe.
  • Living consciously rather than reactively.
  • Living as the real you with no filters or masks.

It takes courage, mindfulness and deliberate effort to say goodbye to your ego and live life as who you genuinely are. What will you do to increase your self-awareness and decrease the influence of your ego?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Helps You Look at the Difficult Things - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness Helps You Look at the Difficult Things

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A major part of self-awareness is to take a careful look at the difficult things in your life. This can include things you have a hard time doing or past events that bring up uncomfortable memories. The more you work on resolving issues in your past, the better able you’ll be to grow and succeed.

Here are some examples of difficult things you might want to look at to improve your self-awareness and help you live a more meaningful and rewarding life:

  • The hurts from your past.
  • Negative family issues you haven’t resolved.
  • Emotions, thoughts, and behaviors that hold you back.
  • Things you would change about yourself.
  • Actions you would take to live a better life.
  • How you treat yourself and others.
  • Finding meaning and guidance within instead of externally.
  • Making amends for negative behavior.
  • Doing things to make the world a better place.
  • Admitting mistakes.

A big part of self-awareness is being able to take a candid look at yourself, celebrate the positive things, and change the negative ones. It requires courage and conscious attention but, when you do it, you’ll be laying the foundation to live a much better life.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and look at the difficult things?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Facing Difficult Issues - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Facing Difficult Issues

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If you possess a high level of self-awareness, you’re probably used to facing difficult issues head on. Many people fall into the trap of pretending that things are going well or avoiding challenging situations at all costs, which leads to constantly having to suppress unresolved issues and trying to fill the resulting void. Here are some things to think about if you’re hesitant to deal with dilemmas:

  • You can handle any issue in your life.
  • You don’t have to take everything on at once.
  • You don’t have to repeat the patterns in your past.
  • You can change.
  • You can move in a positive direction any time you choose.
  • You can take one small step today toward dealing with the issue.
  • You can keep taking small steps.
  • You can adjust your approach as needed.

The only way to truly grow as a person is to consciously decide to stop doing things that don’t work. Building self-awareness means getting to know yourself well at every level and having the courage to resolve thorny situations. Anyone can avoid challenges, what will you do to face your issues directly?

Cheers,

Guy

10 Ways Self-Awareness Can Improve Your Life - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

10 Ways Self-Awareness Can Improve Your Life

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The whole point of getting to know yourself is to move past reacting unconsciously to whatever comes your way to being mindful of what you’re feeling, thinking, and doing. Here are ten ways self-awareness can improve your personal and professional life:

  1. You’re able to feel the entire range of your emotions and deal with them positively.
  2. You understand yourself well and are genuinely comfortable with who you are; not just pretending you are so you don’t look weak.
  3. You’ve worked out the negative issues from your childhood and formative years.
  4. You have a consistent pattern of thinking and behavior where all the areas of your life relate well to each other and aren’t in conflict.
  5. You do things that help make the world a better place, not just that benefit you and the people in your immediate social and professional circles.
  6. You’re able to empathize with other people; their joys, struggles, and day-to-day lives.
  7. You feel so good about yourself that other people aren’t a threat and you don’t have a need to compete with them or defeat them in any way.
  8. You build other people up instead of tearing them down.
  9. You feel like your life has a deeper meaning that comes from within you, not from the outside.
  10. You live life as the real you; following your dreams and doing what you really want to do in life.

When you possess self-awareness you’ll be actively working on issues like these at all times and continually discovering more about yourself. The goal is simple: Live a happy life, spread good vibes, and make the world a better place for as many people as possible. How has self-awareness improved your life?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and the Tough Love Myth - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and the Tough Love Myth

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When you have a high level of self-awareness you tend to stay away from treating other people harshly, as in the so-called “Tough Love” approach to parenting, leadership or any other interaction where you’re trying to correct someone else’s undesirable or out of control behavior. Tough Love is practiced by millions and looks like this:

  • Inability to empathize with the other person’s situation.
  • Unnecessarily harsh or punitive approach to correcting behavior.
  • Resorting to punishment as first option.
  • Not connecting meaningfully with the other person.
  • Lack of listening.
  • Lack of patience.
  • Short-term thinking versus a long-term strategy.
  • Relying on ultimatums.
  • Dictatorial, telling someone what to do from the outside.

The perplexing thing about Tough Love is that there are so many other, more positive, ways to treat people, for example:

  • Empathizing with the other person.
  • Finding other options besides harsh behavior or punishment.
  • Negotiation and collaboration before punishment.
  • Building positive relationships.
  • Listening often and actively.
  • Being patient.
  • Interacting with people to build healthy, long-term relationships.
  • Realizing that change is an ongoing process.
  • Trusting and encouraging people to come up with their own solutions.

It’s really easy to make someone’s life miserable by punishing them, but it takes much more imagination and skill to encourage them to gain the insight necessary to overcome an obstacle. When you possess self-awareness, you have a choice as to how you interact with others regardless of how difficult their behavior or situation is: You can be kind, empathic, and resourceful, or rigid and draconian. Which approach will you choose?

Cheers,

Guy

The Self-Awareness Guy