Personal Awareness

Self-Awareness Consulting and Being Serious about Change - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness Consulting and Being Serious about Change

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self-awareness consulting is only effective when you’re serious about change. A lot of people go to a professional thinking that it’s a quick fix or that they have some magic formula that will instantly create success or fulfillment. The only way to live your dream life is to consciously decide to take charge of your thoughts, emotions and behaviors and move in a positive direction. self-awareness consulting can help you become happier and healthier by:

  • Offering a professional, outside perspective.
  • Providing caring support.
  • Helping you clarify your strengths and areas for improvement.
  • Building accountability.
  • Monitoring your progress.
  • Cheering you on.
  • Believing in you.
  • Helping you decide what you want to do in life.
  • Getting to know yourself on a deeper level.

For self-awareness consulting to be effective it requires a highly motivated, courageous person who is willing to look at his or her warts and make significant changes. I advise people to only consider self-awareness consulting when they are ready to take on the most difficult challenges in their lives, the stuff they don’t want to look at. Otherwise they’re setting themselves up for failure and disappointment. How serious are you about change?

I love working with creative, kind, open-minded individuals who are serious about finding out who they are, welcoming change and living authentically.

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Means Working through Your Stuff - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness Means Working through Your Stuff

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It’s important to work through your stuff even if you don’t really want to, otherwise you’ll live a reactive, unconscious life rather than building your self-awareness and enjoying being the real you.

A lot of people spend an inordinate amount of time and energy trying to avoid difficult issues instead of dealing with them openly and directly. It’s painful to look at your inner bruises but it’s the only way to heal yourself deep inside and move forward in life. When you deal with the challenges that hold you back, you open up doors of opportunity that would have been closed otherwise.

It may not be easy, but the process of increasing self-awareness and healing your hurts is the only true path to happiness. It’s like having a toothache, it will never go away until you treat it. One of the reasons I enjoy connecting with people who value self-awareness is that they often are in a place where they’re already comfortable looking deep inside, and that’s where all change begins.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and work through your stuff?

Cheers,

Guy

Simplify Your Life with Self-Awareness - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Simplify Your Life with Self-Awareness

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The more self-awareness you have, the less you complicate your life. Many people devote an enormous amount of time and energy to cover up some lie, ignore some unpleasant thing they did to someone, or avoid dealing with some difficult issue in their past. What they may not realize is that, instead of making their lives easier, they’re adding more challenges than there need to be. It takes so much effort to complicate your life that why not try something that will make you happier instead? Here are some tips to simplify your life:

  • Understand why you do the things you do.
  • Tell the truth.
  • Behave kindly.
  • Look for ways to make life easier for yourself and others.
  • Have compassion for other people.
  • Love yourself.
  • Heal your hurts.
  • Live the life you know you have inside you.
  • Show the world your true self.

When you think, feel and behave in ways that reflect the person you are deep inside, you don’t have to worry about putting on a mask or doing things that make your life more complicated. Building self-awareness means taking the time to examine the things that don’t help you succeed and replacing them with positive alternatives. What will you do to simplify your life?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Going Beyond - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Going Beyond

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Self-awareness means going beyond your comfort zone and connecting with who you are deep inside instead of living superficially. It’s easy to become used to thinking and behaving a certain way, especially when things are going well. If you’re continuously building self-awareness, you understand that there is no such thing as living statically. Life is an ongoing evolution where you naturally grow and change along the way. Going beyond means you do thing like the following:

  • You don’t get stuck defending negative behaviors.
  • You actively work on healing the hurts from your past.
  • You seek new information and ideas.
  • You’re open to new ways of doing things.
  • You’re comfortable with change.
  • You think and behave in ways that benefit you and others.
  • You live life as the real you.

If you do these types of things, you know how great it feels to learn about yourself and expand your horizons. Building self-awareness isn’t always easy, but it is consistently rewarding because you get to live a genuine and authentic life. What will you do to keep going beyond the average?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Helps Reduce Fear of Rejection - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness Helps Reduce Fear of Rejection

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Self-awareness helps reduce fear of rejection because, when you understand your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors well, you’re able to make decisions based on a healthier perception of yourself and others.

An important element of self-awareness is to understand how your fears influence your path in life. Fear of rejection can keep you from doing many meaningful things like:

  • Being yourself.
  • Speaking your mind.
  • Making friends.
  • Dating.
  • Writing poetry.
  • Being creative.
  • Following your own path.

The key to living happily is to realize that there will always be people who don’t get what you do or who you are, but that it doesn’t matter. You’re valuable as you are and you bring amazing gifts and talents to the table. So what if you get rejected, you’re still your wonderful self.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and reduce your fear of rejection?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Means Looking at Yourself - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness Means Looking at Yourself

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Self-awareness means looking at yourself because you want to live consciously instead of reacting to the things going on inside or around you. It’s very difficult to create forward momentum in your life if you’re not willing to look at your strengths and areas for improvement. Here are some questions to ask yourself to help you examine who you are:

  • What are some things you do well?
  • What are some things about yourself you would improve?
  • What does it feel like to be fulfilled?
  • What does it feel like when things don’t go so well?
  • Which of your thoughts, feelings and behaviors have led to success and which ones have led to less than positive results?
  • What one thing would you change today if you could?
  • What brings you deep joy in life?
  • What things do you find meaningful?
  • What would you be doing right now if you were living authentically?

Your answers to these questions will help you take a look at yourself and begin to understand what makes you think, feel and do the things you do. The key to self-awareness is to live consciously rather than reactively. The more you know yourself, the easier it is to live meaningfully. What will you do to take a deeper look at yourself?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Helps You Not Give Up - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness Helps You Not Give Up

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Self-awareness helps you not give up because, when you know yourself deep inside and understand why you feel, think, and behave the way you do, you’re better able to believe in yourself and move forward confidently even in the face of obstacles.

As you try to increase your self-awareness you may find that you don’t progress at the speed you want to. Don’t worry, a natural part of creating change in your life is to keep practicing. Even when you feel like giving up, keep doing small things to move your life forward. Over time you’ll build up your strength and ability to do what you want to do.

Everyone has moments when they fell like they’re failures or will never succeed. The trick is to replace negative emotions, thoughts, and actions with positive ones that will help you get where you want to go. Remember that you’re a valuable person who deserves to keep moving forward.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and not give up?

Cheers,

Guy

The Self-Awareness Guy