What Is Self-Awareness

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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

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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 Writing Your Story - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Writing Your Story

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When you have self-awareness you’re able to consciously write your story instead of being subject to the experiences in your past or the limitations you’ve placed on yourself. At any moment in your existence, you can change your narrative but it requires being wide awake and ready to welcome change and growth into your life. Here are some ideas to help you begin writing your story:

  • Get to know who you really are deep down inside.
  • Be willing to live your life as the real you.
  • Have the courage to let go of the voices in your head that hold you back.
  • Welcome the opportunity to heal your past wounds.
  • Be open to changing past behavior patterns that don’t work.
  • Be creative, there are no limits to the story you can create.
  • Don’t worry about outcomes or whether people will like your story.
  • Be authentic and honor who you really are.
  • Live a life of conscious happiness and fulfillment.

The more you know yourself, the better able you’ll be to live your life on purpose. You get to choose when you start and what you work on. What story will you write?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Taking Action - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Taking Action

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A major element of self-awareness is understanding what motivates you and actually doing things to create positive movement in your life. I’ve consulted for and trained a lot of people over the years and I’ve noticed that there is often a disconnect between what they say they want to do and what they actually do. People mean well but very often they don’t know how to follow through to reach their goals. The missing ingredient is taking action.

In order to do anything in life it’s important to actually do stuff. If all you do is think about things, you’ll live a great imaginary life but not get a lot done in the physical world. Achievements don’t just appear out of thin air, they require deliberate and conscious effort. You have to actually move from thinking about things in your head to doing things in the outside world.

People who value self-awareness tend to understand the process of working hard each day to get to know themselves better and continue moving in the direction of their dreams. What are your thoughts on taking action?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Making Things More Difficult for Others - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Making Things More Difficult for Others

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One of the characteristics of someone who lacks self-awareness is making things more difficult for others. When you don’t know yourself well, you can’t pull back far enough to realize how your behavior affects other people so you might do things like:

  • Treat people poorly.
  • Behave without empathy.
  • Think the whole world should bend to your point of view.
  • Frequently create situations that damage other people.
  • Do things that make others work harder.
  • Create a pattern of negative interactions and relationships.
  • Complicate things to gain power or control.
  • Make unrealistic demands.
  • Act as a gatekeeper.
  • Fail to take responsibility for your actions.

The antidote to these behaviors is to get to know yourself on a deeper level and become genuinely comfortable with who you are. The happier you are, the less stress you’ll create for others because you won’t be working out your personal issues on them. What will you do to make things less difficult for others?

Cheers,

Guy

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