What Is Self-Awareness

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10 Self-Awareness Examples - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

10 Self-Awareness Examples

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People often ask me to give them examples of self-awareness, here are ten:

  1. You recognize your strengths.
  2. You’re able to identify your areas for improvement and actively work on them.
  3. Your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors move you in a positive direction.
  4. You’re comfortable around other people’s emotions, even when they’re intense.
  5. You are always working on understanding yourself better and living consciously.
  6. You actively seek help to resolve the hurts from your past.
  7. You understand how your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors affect not only you, but also others.
  8. You are able to manage your self-talk and distinguish between reality and fiction.
  9. You are comfortable socially.
  10. You are pursuing a life that reflects who you really are deep down inside.

Developing self-awareness doesn’t just happen by reading a book or attending a workshop, it’s a process of working on yourself and understanding how you function and how it affects you and the world around you. What are you doing to increase your self-awareness?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Is about You - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness Is about You

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It’s hard to experience self-awareness if you decide you don’t want to work on it. You have a lot of power to decide what you’re willing to do. You can move forward confidently or you can put up obstacles. The only person who chooses whether you grow and succeed is you.

Take some time to think of the areas in your life you’d like to improve and what would make you feel happy and balanced. Then it’s up to you to determine where you want to start and what you’re willing to do. The key in self-awareness is to live authentically and take action on the things that will help you live a genuine life.

Cheers,

Guy

 

Why Is Self-Awareness Important? - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Why Is Self-Awareness Important?

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Why is self-awareness important? Here are some lovely reasons:

  • You get to live life as yourself.
  • You can pursue your dreams.
  • You honor yourself every day.
  • You look within for answers.
  • You live a more fulfilling life.
  • You are in touch with your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors.
  • You understand why you do stuff.
  • You enjoy positive relationships.
  • You’re able to move in a positive direction.
  • You live consciously instead of reacting to everything that comes your way.
  • You understand your strengths and areas for improvement.
  • You’re constantly growing.
  • You treat yourself and others well.
  • You genuinely like yourself.

Self-awareness is of vital importance because it’s like the difference between being able to breathe or not. When you possess self-awareness you can enjoy who you are and live a deeply rewarding life. What would you add to this list?

Cheers,

Guy

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

Self-Awareness and Hope

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Self-awareness gives you hope because you’re able to live proactively and consciously rather than enduring whatever comes your way. If you don’t know yourself very well you might see the world as a vast, unknown, scary entity that has total control over you, which might lead you to say things like:

  • Life is hard and it will always be.
  • I have no opportunities.
  • I can only rely on myself.
  • Things will never change.

Fortunately, you have a lot of control over your thoughts, feelings and behaviors and you can view even the most difficult situations from whatever perspective you choose. For example, you could convert the statements above to ones that indicate you understand how much power you have:

  • Life may be hard at times but I can decide to move forward positively.
  • I’m going to look for the opportunities in this situation.
  • I know I can rely on myself but I can also connect with others.
  • I can make change happen.

Each of these sets of examples represents a different worldview: One is based on the assumption that the world is harsh and negative and the other suggests that you can affect your environment even if things are difficult. When you understand yourself really well, you shift from living passively to choosing how you experience the world. What will you do to increase your hopefulness through self-awareness?

Cheers,

Guy

10 Signs You Practice Self-Awareness - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

10 Signs You Practice Self-Awareness

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It’s easy to tell who values self-awareness because they behave in ways that are uplifting for them and the people around them. Here are ten signs that you practice self-awareness:

  1. You know where you end and others begin.
  2. You behave positively toward yourself and others.
  3. You have compassion and empathy for others.
  4. You are able to see other people’s points of view.
  5. You keep your personal stuff out of your interactions with others.
  6. You heal your own hurts.
  7. You know who you really are deep inside.
  8. You live authentically.
  9. You help yourself and others grow and succeed.
  10. You get up each morning and think, feel and behave like the real you.

If you do these things habitually, you’re a person who possesses healthy self-awareness. If you don’t, no worries, just pick one area to strengthen and practice until you become good at it. The key to building self-awareness is to always be cognizant of what you’re doing and whether you’re living positively and genuinely. What will you do to keep building self-awareness?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Means Getting to Know Yourself Well - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

Self-Awareness Means Getting to Know Yourself Well

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Self-awareness is the process of getting to know yourself well. The more you know who you are deep inside, the better chance you have of coaching your life in a positive direction. As you build your self-awareness you:

  • Discover how your thoughts affect your progress in life.
  • Learn how to think positively and take action.
  • Learn how to deal with your feelings.
  • Resolve difficult issues in your life.
  • Heal your hurts.
  • Listen to your inner voice.
  • Live consciously and authentically.
  • Be the real you.

The more self-awareness you build, the more likely you are to live a deeply fulfilling and meaningful life because you’ll be tapping into your innermost strengths, talents and abilities. Getting to know yourself means that you comprehend who you are and why you do the things you do.

Cheers,

Guy

15 Signs of Self-Awareness - On Developing Self-Awareness and Being Self-Aware

15 Signs of Self-Awareness

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Here are fifteen signs that a person has self-awareness:

  • Understand themselves better.
  • Behave proactively instead of reactively.
  • Connect more meaningfully with others.
  • Feel more at ease with themselves.
  • Have worked through past hurts.
  • Behave positively.
  • Pursue their dreams.
  • Enjoy positive relationships.
  • Treat others with kindness and compassion.
  • Have less conflict in their lives.
  • Understand where they end and others begin.
  • Have healthy boundaries.
  • Do things to help others.
  • Make the world a better place.
  • Live life based on their true selves.

You’ll know you’re around someone with self-awareness because they are following their dreams and do things in a way that bring joy to themselves and others. What would you add to this list?

Cheers,

Guy

The Self-Awareness Guy