Personal 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 Self-Love - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Self-Love

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Self-awareness leads to self-love because, when you understand your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, you are able to celebrate the wonderful things about you and improve the areas that need attention.

If you’re looking for someone who really cares about you, you need look no further than inside yourself. You’re the only person who can love you and answer the questions you have. A lot of people spend their entire lives looking for some outside entity to love, comfort, and take care of them. It’s natural to want to put all the difficulties in your life in someone else’s hands but it doesn’t help you resolve your own issues or be truly happy.

Try asking yourself these questions to start building your self-love:

  • What do I love about myself?
  • What are five things I do well?
  • What is my passion in life?
  • In what ways do I make the world a better place?
  • What are five things that are great about my personality?
  • What are some things I do to take care of myself?
  • What is one thing I can do today to love myself?

When you ask yourself questions like these, you begin the process of caring for yourself which, in turn, will help you to build self-awareness and attract healthy people into your life. Finding a caring person begins with you, you are the one who will love you like no one else can.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and practice self-love?

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 Leads to Believing in Yourself - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness Leads to Believing in Yourself

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When you possess self-awareness, you trust yourself to be your own guide through life. So many people put all their energy into believing in someone else or some abstract entity that they spend their entire lives neglecting their own inner voices.

The key to living a profoundly meaningful life is to stop looking outside for answers and turn inward instead. You have every answer you need inside you right at this very moment. They may sometimes be hidden somewhere in the recesses of your mind, but they’re in there, and all you have to do is be willing to put in the effort to find them.

Believing in yourself means that you take an honest, candid look at the person you are, keep what’s positive and change what isn’t. This process requires considerable courage because you have to look at the issues you normally try to avoid. Fortunately, after you do the hard work and build up your self-awareness, you’ll be rewarded with being able to let go of the things that hold you back and live authentically.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and believe in yourself?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Helps You Do Your Thing - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness Helps You Do Your Thing

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Having self-awareness means that you’re able to decide what you want to do with your life based on who you are deep inside. It’s sometimes hard to do your thing when there are so many people and messages telling you not to. Every day, an enthusiastic teen tells her parents what she wants to do with her life and they advise her that she should focus on something more practical; or an adult tells his friends about his dreams and they make fun of him.

If you pay attention to what other people say you should do, or how they define who you are, then you’ll never follow your own path. The key to living a genuinely happy life is to be the real you no matter what anyone says. Do what you love doing each day and enjoy how it makes you feel and who it helps you become.

I love connecting with people who value self-awareness because they’re willing to be vulnerable and show the world their true selves. What will you do to develop self-awareness and do your thing?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Going beyond the Family - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Going beyond the Family

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People who possess self-awareness tend to chart their own courses instead of following rules imposed by outside influences, including their families. A lot of individuals are bound by a sense that they have to adhere to family rules and expectations, but I’ve often noticed that they often live more fulfilled lives when they follow their own inner voices.

Yes, the family is an important social structure that can provide a sense of meaning and belonging, but it is a human construct that has held countless people back. How many people have had to live their lives a certain way because their family tells them to? How many people have had their dreams extinguished because well-meaning family members suggested they follow a certain path? Far too many.

A major reason people are profoundly miserable in life is that they pretend that they enjoy doing what others tell them to do. Trying to be someone we’re not is always a recipe for disaster because the only way we can be truly happy is to do what we love to do, in a way we love doing it, for the reasons we find meaningful. This kind of courageous self-determination often goes against the rules and expectations of our families, but it is the only path toward true fulfillment.

At its very core, being happy means having the self-awareness to be who you really are: an individual who does his or her own thing regardless of what any other person or group says. What will you do to develop self-awareness and go beyond the family?

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

The Self-Awareness Guy