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Self-Awareness and Increasing Self-Esteem - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Increasing Self-Esteem

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Self-awareness is linked to increasing self-esteem because, when you understand your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, you’re able to perform an accurate assessment of who you really are and take action accordingly.

Here are some self-awareness building ideas to help you increase your self-esteem:

  • Do one thing at a time instead of everything all at once.
  • Trust your instincts.
  • Surround yourself with people who support your growth.
  • Celebrate your achievements as you go along.
  • Be true to yourself and do things you love.
  • Don’t let others hold you back.
  • Live your life, not someone else’s.
  • Practice completing tasks.
  • The more you practice the more confident you’ll be.
  • Let people know what you need.
  • Find out who you really are.
  • Share your talents and abilities with the world.
  • Learn how to say no.

The key element in how to increase your self-esteem is living your life with self-awareness. Think and behave consciously and positively and you’ll move in a favorable direction. You may encounter obstacles and challenges but you’ll be building your self-esteem by continuing to take action and believe in yourself.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and increase your self-esteem?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Means Living Authentically - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness Means Living Authentically

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When you possess self-awareness you live authentically, which means that you do things like:

  • Look at yourself honestly, openly and continuously.
  • Strive to understand who you are deep inside.
  • Think, feel and behave like the real you.
  • Realize how your actions affect you and others.
  • Think and behave in ways that make you and others happy.
  • Understand the interrelations between people.
  • Behave with kindness and empathy.
  • You’re genuinely happy with yourself.
  • Actively heal your hurts.
  • You’re willing to work on any area of your life that needs strengthening.
  • You’re committed to learning about yourself, others and the world at large and continue growing.
  • Let go of fear.
  • Look below the surface.
  • Live your dreams.

When you do these types of things you tap into who you are as a person deep inside. The key to living a happy, fulfilling life is to be true to yourself and live in a way that brings you meaning. What will you do to live authentically?

Cheers,

Guy

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

Selective Self-Awareness

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The path to self-awareness is populated by many individuals who claim to know and understand themselves but do things like:

  • Treat people poorly.
  • Work out their personal issues on others.
  • Don’t understand why they think, feel and behave the way they do.
  • Are mesmerized or infatuated by the concept of self-awareness but reluctant to take a deeper look at themselves.
  • Are stuck thinking and behaving the way they always have.
  • Live life unconsciously.
  • Are healthy in one part of their lives but profoundly damaged in others.
  • The various parts of their personality don’t interact well.
  • The have unhealed hurts and unresolved issues but conveniently ignore them.

When you possess genuine self-awareness you understand yourself on a deeper level and live a life of balance and compassion because you know your strengths and areas for improvement and are constantly working on being the most balanced and healthy you possible. You’re whole overall, not just in bits and pieces. What will you do to move past selective self-awareness?

Cheers,

Guy

If You're Self-Aware, You Already Have the Answers Inside - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

If You’re Self-Aware, You Already Have the Answers Inside

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Deep inside you live the answers to the questions you have about life. Many people who lack self-awareness spend their entire lives ignoring these inner thoughts, but those who listen to them benefit from following a life of great fulfillment. The reason that we have the answers inside of us is that we are born with certain hopes, dreams and talents that are unique to each of us. Nobody else in the world has these talents and only we can provide the subtle variation and specialization of these particular gifts. On the receiving end are people who are ready to connect with us and use our talents because it makes sense to them.

When you look within you for the answer to life’s questions you begin to connect with who you really are, increase your self-awareness, and live a life of less effort and strain. Following the voice inside you allows you to live comfortably because you are following the path that makes sense to you. The next time you are looking for answers from someone else consider the following questions:

  • What does my inner voice say I should do?
  • Does this answer reflect who I really am inside?
  • Am I blocking the true answer in any way?
  • What small step can I take today to follow up on this answer?

Learn to trust your inner voice and you begin the process of validating yourself. We each have the answers to what we need in life inside us. It is our choice whether we listen.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and look for the answers within?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Leads to Emotional Intelligence - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness Leads to Emotional Intelligence

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When you have a high level of self-awareness you naturally build up your emotional intelligence because you’re able to:

  • Feel your full range of emotions.
  • Think of emotions as a natural part of life.
  • Be in touch with the four basic emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, and fear.
  • Be comfortable when other people show their emotions.
  • Value and appreciate being touchy-feely.
  • Heal your own emotional wounds.
  • Be conscious of your emotions instead of letting them rule you unconsciously.
  • Use your emotions to move toward positive results.
  • Use your emotions to build a better world.

A huge part of self-awareness is being so comfortable with your emotions that you do positive things for yourself and others. So many problems occur because people don’t have any emotional intelligence, imagine what the world would be like if people knew what to do with their sadness, anger, and fear. Self-awareness leads to emotional intelligence because once you know yourself well, you naturally are comfortable with the amazing range of emotions that are part of you.

Cheers,

Guy

Why Are People Not Self-Aware? - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Why Are People Not Self-Aware?

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Why are people not self-aware? Because they’ve never been taught how to be or had an example in their lives of how to do it. When you’ve never been exposed to something, your likelihood of knowing anything about it is nil. In my experience, the vast majority of people have only the most basic self-awareness; they understand that they’re alive and that they want certain things but not much beyond that. The key to developing deeper self-awareness is to do things like the following:

  • Discover who you really are deep inside and follow your true path in life.
  • Heal your hurts so they won’t affect how you treat yourself and others.
  • Learn how your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors affect you and others and do everything in your power to move them in a positive experience.
  • Be comfortable in your own skin.
  • Be truly happy because you’re living a kind, honest, deeply fulfilling life from your very core.
  • Treat people with empathy and compassion.
  • Make the world a better place.

Self-awareness doesn’t just happen, it requires moving past the basics of simply existing to living a life of consciousness and deliberateness. You’ll know you’re self-aware when you no longer just barely make it through each day but rather live with great joy, kindness, and fulfillment.

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Fear of Emotions - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Fear of Emotions

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When you have self-awareness, you’re probably more comfortable with your emotions than most people. Much of our culture is based on a fear of emotions, except for the approved ones: anger and fake happiness. We worship the strong silent type who doesn’t say much or the sports hero who just goes out and does his thing in a physical way. The challenge with not acknowledging the full range of human emotions is that you stay stuck at a certain point of your development, and you still experience them whether you want to or not.

People who possess self-awareness understand that life is brimming with swirling feelings and that we all have vast reservoirs of emotion and pathos. I’ve consistently noticed over years of training and consulting for others that the strongest people aren’t those who pretend to be strong by acting stoic or aloof, it’s the ones who face the full range of human emotions head-on rather than trying to pretend they don’t exist.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and welcome emotions?

Cheers,

Guy

The Self-Awareness Guy