Awareness Meaning

Self-Awareness and Taking Action to Love Yourself

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As you’ve probably guessed from experience, loving yourself is about building self-awareness, doing things that lead to positive outcomes, and continuously improving yourself. An additional action you can take to learn how to love yourself is to find out who you are.

Set aside some time, without interruptions, to find out who you are. Ask yourself some self-discovery questions. What is my passion in life? What are the things I do well? What are the areas I can improve? What is my part in creating great relationships?

The process of loving ourselves comes from increasing self-awareness, understanding who we are, and working through the things that block our ability to love ourselves. For example: If you have difficulty committing in a relationship it may stem from something inside you that blocks you from accepting or giving love. If you identify what is blocking you it suddenly gives you a lot of power to change what you are doing.

Self-love is about practicing positive behaviors and experiencing the joy that comes from learning about yourself. What will you do to develop self-awareness and learn to love yourself?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Helps You Do Instead of Wish

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I’ve noticed over the years that a lot of people who lack self-awareness think wishing is the same as doing; they expect that if they just hope something happens, it will. Many people also live in a state of denial, where they pretend things are a certain way when they’re really not. There’s nothing wrong with wishing for wonderful things to happen, it’s just that results only come from living in reality and taking concrete action.

Part of self-awareness is having the ability to see how your actions in the present affect your future. Success rarely happens happens in life without ongoing, tangible efforts to make your wishes come true. I love providing life guidance for people who value self-awareness because they are already working on identifying who they are, where they want to go, and how they’re going to achieve their goals. They fulfill their aspirations by actually doing stuff.

The key to living a happy life is to have dreams and also take steps to make them come true. What will you do to develop self-awareness and actually do things instead of wishing they would happen?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Helps You Dream Big

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Self-awareness helps you dream big because, when you know yourself deep inside and understand your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, you’re able to move your life in any direction you wish.

If you’ve ever wanted to achieve something you’ve probably noticed that you get the results that you work on. If you have a small goal you tend to work toward that, if you have a larger vision you tend to move toward it.

A great way to accomplish almost anything is to start with a dream, a specific thing you would like to see happen or that excites you. The dream will guide all the actions to follow. Think about the following questions as you build self-awareness and pursue your dream:

1. What would I love to do, what is my dream?

2. What are the reasons this dream is important to me?

3. What small action can I take today to make my dream come true?

If you dream big you are constantly moving toward expansive and exciting horizons. It doesn’t mean that all you do are grand, sweeping thing, it just requires that you work toward something that really helps you stretch and grow as a person.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and dream big?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Aware People Are Unique and Wonderful

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Life is richer and more fulfilling when there are many voices sharing their particular points of view, it creates a beautiful song with many tones and cadences. As you build your self-awareness, you will come to realize how unique and wonderful you are and how much of a difference it makes when you share your authentic self with the world.

There is no one else like you in the world because they don’t have your unique combination of life experience and perspective. Nobody feels, thinks, and behaves exactly like you; which makes you a precious gift.

One of the reasons I enjoy connecting with people who value self-awareness is that they are open to sharing their inner workings with the outside world. It’s liberating to find your own voice and say what you want to say because no one else can possibly do it like you. Every day is a new opportunity to discover who you really are deep down inside and live your life in way that brings you (and others) great joy and fulfillment.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and celebrate how unique and wonderful you are?

Cheers,

Guy

Advantages of Self-Awareness

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I’m often asked what are the advantages of self-awareness. It’s almost impossible to overestimate the impact self-awareness can have on someone’s life, here are some of the advantages I’ve noticed through years of working with people and organizations over the years:

  • An ability to understand one’s own thoughts, feelings, and actions and manage them positively.
  • Understanding why other people think, feel, and act the way they do.
  • Ability to empathize and practice compassion toward others.
  • Identifying your strengths and areas for improvement.
  • Living your life more authentically because you understand who you really are deep inside.
  • Thinking and behaving more positively because you’ve worked through your stuff.
  • Being more open to new information, experiences, and change.
  • Choosing positive friends and significant others.
  • Being a better leader at work because you’re not working out your issues on others.
  • Feeling more balanced and together.
  • A sense of deeper understanding of yourself and your path in life.
  • A more meaningful and fulfilling life.

There’s no mystery to self-awareness, it’s simply a tool that helps you know so much about yourself that you literally become a happier, more effective human being which, in turn, positively affects you and the people around you. When you possess self-awareness you tap into a stream of consciousness and knowledge that helps you treat yourself and others better, as well as allowing you to make the world a better place. What would you add to this list?

Cheers,
Guy

Self-Awareness Helps You Rewire Your Brain

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Rewiring your brain is a big part of self-awareness. It means taking a look at the beliefs you’ve carried for many years and are programmed into your thought process. Take a look at the things you believe that don’t help you succeed. Move past those negative messages by replacing them with productive, helpful alternatives.

Our brains are full of all kinds of erroneous information. Self-awareness helps you get in touch with and understand why you think the way you do and why it leads to certain outcomes. For example: If you don’t really love yourself deep inside you might believe that you’ll never succeed in life or have anyone love you or treat you well. You can guess what direction those thoughts will lead you in. The trick is to replace the negative thoughts with positive ones like: you’re worth loving, you can be successful, and you deserve to be treated well.

Every time you have a negative thought you get to choose whether you replace it with a positive one. This gives you an amazing amount of power to move your thinking in any direction you desire. What will you do to develop self-awareness and rewire your brain?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Helps You Love Yourself

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Have you ever met people who say they love themselves but seem angry at the world or always in the middle of some kind of chaos? The general coachline for someone who loves herself is that she becomes more balanced, more accepting, kinder and more happy.

Learning how to love ourselves begins with self-awareness. Do you really love yourself? A good way of finding out is to evaluate whether you do things that help or hurt you in life. List the things that you allow to happen that are uplifting and then a list of the ones that bring you down. Do you have more things in your life that make you feel great or a larger number of disappointments? If you have a significant number of negative items on your list, don’t worry, this just an exercise to give you an idea of what to work on first. Look at your list and pick one thing from the negative side that you want to work on, the one that jumps out at you the most. Congratulate yourself because you have now started the process of working on loving yourself through building up your self-awareness.

Cheers,

Guy

The Self-Awareness Guy