Awareness Meaning

7 Examples of the Importance of Self-Awareness

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Self-awareness is an important tool to help you succeed at a higher level. When you understand yourself well, you live your life consciously rather than just letting it happen to you. Here are seven examples of the importance of self-awareness:

  • You can connect more easily with other people.
  • You treat people with kindness and compassion and have them do the same for you.
  • You follow your true path in life.
  • You build a career you love based on your natural talents and abilities.
  • You live authentically and openly.
  • You resolve your inner issues so they don’t get in the way of your progress.
  • You can be yourself at all times instead of pretending to be someone else.

Imagine if you did all these things, think of the positive impact it would have on your life. When you build self-awareness, you give yourself the opportunity to enjoy who you really are and experience things at an entirely different level. What would you add to this list?

Cheers,

Guy

 

Self-Awareness and Living Your Dream Life

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Did you know you can start living your dream life today? You don’t have to settle for whatever comes your way when you choose to use self-awareness to look deep inside yourself and identify what your passion is in life. Here are some questions you can ask yourself to start making your dreams come true:

  • What are my innate talents and abilities?
  • What is one thing that brings me great joy in life and reflects who I am deep inside?
  • What is the thing I love doing so much that time flies by?
  • If I could choose any one thing to do in life, what would it be?
  • What ideas do I have to incorporate more of this thing into my life?
  • What single action am I willing to take today to move in the direction of my dreams?

Think about questions like these to clarify what you really want to do and how you’ll start the process. Living your dream life means building self-awareness about who you are and what path you want to take. Once you understand yourself well you’ll be able to incorporate more and more of what you love into your life.

There will be pitfalls along the way and it will take time and effort to create your dream situation but, if  you’re willing to keep looking at yourself and taking small steps, you’ll live much more authentically. Remember that you don’t have to make everything happen at once, just keep moving forward consciously.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and start living your dream life?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Increasing the Love in Your Life

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When you possess self-awareness, you deeply understand and are able to positively manage your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. This sense of well-being allows you to let more love into you life, as in loving yourself and others.

Love is a wonderful part of self-awareness. Imagine your life filled with many kinds of love including:

  • Love for yourself.
  • Love for and from others.
  • Love for your career.
  • Love for the planet and all its creatures.
  • Love for life.

Replacing the feelings of fear and anger in your life with love allows you to feel great about yourself and others. Your life moves in entirely different ways, wonderful opportunities and experiences open up to you, full of joy and fulfillment. Love can literally change your life if you let it in. What will you do to develop self-awareness and invite love into your life?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Aware Parents Know How to Talk with Their Kids

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Many parents who lack self-awareness forget the cardinal rule of talking with children: listen to them. We get so caught up in coaching and directing their behavior or protecting them that we forget that they are people. The single most important key to talking with your kids is listening.

How to Listen

  1. Don’t talk.
  2. Don’t judge.
  3. Invite your child to talk about anything her or she wants with no repercussions.
  4. No commenting or editorializing allowed from you. No stories about when you were their age.
  5. Invite them to keep talking to you anytime they want.
  6. The only things you are allowed to say are, “Tell me more,” “I understand,” and “Thank you for talking with me,” or “I love you.” Try nodding and smiling as ways to invite them to talk more.
  7. Try to avoid applying your beliefs to what they say.
  8. Thank them and tell them you love them. Then say nothing else.

Practice these skills over time (at least one month, or longer) and always remember to tell your child you love them and that you are open to listening to them. If they don’t want to talk, respect their wishes and let them know that you are there when they are ready. When they do finally trust you, they will open up and then you can apply the ideas above. Once you’ve established and modeled that you can listen they may even invite you to offer your wisdom. They have to believe that you care enough to listen to them first.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and listen to your kids?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Coloring outside the Lines

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When you possess self-awareness you’re able to do your own thing instead of being swayed by others. Countless well-meaning parents, teachers, friends, bosses, and institutions crush our spirits by telling us to avoid coloring outside the lines. The say things like: fit in, don’t make waves, be like us, don’t be too different. Unfortunately, conforming to rules is the exact opposite of being creative, where there are no limits.

Coloring outside the lines is the very essence of being your own person. You can do anything you want without worrying about the rules other people put in place to stifle your creativity. You get to live each day as the real you and do the things that bring you joy and fulfillment rather than conforming to what someone else says you should do.

A big part of self-awareness is following your own inner voice. You decide where you go, what you do, and how you do it. There are no rules, just the ones that you create.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and color outside the lines?

Cheers,

Guy

10 Ways to Achieve Self-Awareness

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Here are ten ways to achieve self-awareness:

  1. Resolve to move beyond living superficially and decide that you want to take a deeper look at yourself.
  2. Set aside regular time to think about who you are as a person.
  3. Identify your talents and celebrate the things you do well.
  4. Identify the areas you need to improve and work on improving them.
  5. Identify the hurts from your past that need healing and work on healing them.
  6. Decide what really brings you joy in life, your passions, and take action each day to live based on these ideals.
  7. Think and do things that bring you meaning.
  8. Think and do things that extend beyond you and help as many other people as possible.
  9. Think, feel and behave positively.
  10. Continue learning and growing in your mind and in the physical world.

Building self-awareness isn’t a short-term endeavor, it requires ongoing, deliberate and mindful action. You don’t have to do everything at once, just pick one area you would like to build on and begin your journey.

Cheers,
Guy

Self-Aware Leaders Know How to Get Unstuck

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Have you ever been stuck on some workplace problem or situation with no solution or options in sight? Leaders are expected to come up with brilliant ideas to keep their organizations moving but what often happens is that they lack self-awareness and unilaterally devise what they think is a wonderful strategy only to find that their employees hate, don’t understand, or aren’t on board with it. Everyone stays stuck rather than moving forward.

So how can you create a strategy that people genuinely like and support? Many leaders who lack self-awareness get stuck worrying about minute details and possible repercussions instead of focusing on the bigger picture. Every time you’re stuck is a great opportunity to tap into the amazing brainpower of your team. That’s right, why not consider working with your employees to collaboratively create a vision for getting unstuck? It’s invigorating to have a greater number of people at the table working collaboratively to develop new ideas. It also will help take some of the pressure off you.

The next time you’re feeling stuck, start shifting your thinking toward self-awareness and how things might look if you were moving in a different direction. Ask yourself and your team these key questions to get the process started:

  1. What is keeping us stuck?
  2. What is the first area we need to look at that is keeping us stuck?
  3. What is the most innovative and different way we can deal with the issue at hand?
  4. How does our new approach differ from our old approach?
  5. How will we know if the new approach works?

The answers to these questions will help you and your team begin the process of seeing things in a different light. Then you can jointly create a plan to move forward. Sometimes all it takes to move in a more positive direction is being open to working collaboratively with your employees and asking for their amazing ideas.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and get unstuck?

Cheers,

Guy

The Self-Awareness Guy