Self-Aware

Self-Awareness Helps You Be Happy

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Imagine living a life where you possess self-awareness and think and act in ways that bring you deep joy and fulfillment. When you understand yourself deep inside, you’re more likely to enjoy who you are and experience the world positively. Here are ten things you can do starting right now to be happy:

  1. Forgive yourself and others.
  2. Do meaningful work that reflects your real passions.
  3. Let go of the need for things to turn out a certain way.
  4. Make sure what you say matches what you do.
  5. Treat yourself and others with kindness.
  6. Help others, including people you don’t know.
  7. Praise someone.
  8. Give someone a hug.
  9. Tell someone you love him or her, tell yourself too.
  10. Heal your hurts.

When you do these things you’ll be connecting on a more meaningful level with yourself and others as well as building self-awareness. The trick is to consciously do positive things every day that lead you toward happiness. The more you do it, the better you’ll feel.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and be happy?

Cheers,

Guy

What Does It Mean to Be Self-Aware?

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What does it mean to be self-aware? Here are some of the characteristics of people who possess self-awareness:

  • They have the ability to deal with their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors and channel them in positive ways.
  • They know who they are deep inside and work each day to live their dreams.
  • They can deal positively with other people’s emotions, thinking, and behaviors.
  • They are genuinely happy because they are themselves.
  • They are on their true path in life.
  • They are psychologically healthy.
  • They treat themselves and others well.
  • The enjoy positive relationships.
  • They have less conflict and strife in their lives.
  • They live proactively rather than reactively.
  • They feel more at peace inside.

Being self-aware simply means that you’re mindful of who you are, how you treat yourself and others, how you deal with challenges, and how you interact with your environment. Self-aware people live happier, more fulfilling lives because they’ve done the work necessary to arrive at a place of calm. What would you add to this list?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Finding Your Meaning of Life

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When you build your self-awareness, you’re better able to find your meaning of life because you’re more in touch with how to manage your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors, and how they affect your life.

People often tell me about their goals and aspirations followed by all the reasons why they can’t do anything about them. Frequently the only thing stopping people from doing what they want to is their self-imposed limitations.

The meaning of life is pretty much whatever you decide it is for you. You have immense power to move your life in any direction you want it to. Try the following today:

1. Think of something you really love doing.
2. Plan a way to fit this thing into your life.
3. Continue doing it.

Make sure you act in ways that get you closer to your dreams. For example: If you love art do everything in your power to pursue the interest. This could mean taking an art class, going to museums, creating your own art or talking to artists. The idea is to always develop your self-awareness and do things you love.

Once you start this movement toward doing things you love you will live life more meaningfully. I always encourage people to do the things that bring them joy. In this way, we live more fulfilling lives. What will you do to increase your self-awareness and find meaning in your life?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Ego

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As you build self-awareness you realize that your ego is simply who you think you are, not who you really are. The key to living a deep, meaningful and fulfilling life is to get in touch with the authentic you by:

  • Being willing to explore yourself and define who you actually are.
  • Identifying what you do well and what areas of your life would benefit from some additional strengthening.
  • Being candid about the hurts you carry and actively working on healing them.
  • Getting rid of the negative voices in your head.
  • Interrupting the patterns that make you unhappy.
  • Letting go of the things you’ve made up about yourself in favor of revealing the real person inside.
  • Reaching a point where you’re so healthy and balanced that you treat yourself and others wonderfully.
  • Connecting with everyone and everything else in the universe.
  • Living consciously rather than reactively.
  • Living as the real you with no filters or masks.

It takes courage, mindfulness and deliberate effort to say goodbye to your ego and live life as who you genuinely are. What will you do to increase your self-awareness and decrease the influence of your ego?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Being Successful

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If you possess self-awareness and think you will succeed, you tend to succeed because you take action and you move in circles that are beneficial to you. Even though people understand this concept intellectually they often get stuck in, “I can’t succeed,” mode. It’s perfectly normal to feel like you’ll never break through or achieve your goals but you can have a great impact on how your life moves by simply thinking successfully.

Try thinking about the following things the next time you feel like you are lacking success:

1. What do I want to succeed at?

2. What am I doing today to achieve my goal?

3. What baggage can I shed so I can begin working on my goal?

4. What is one step I can do today to succeed?

5. How will I know if I’ve succeeded?

6. What will I do to enjoy and celebrate my success?

7. What do I need to do to continue thinking successfully?

Try working through these seven questions and focusing your energy on building your self-awareness and being successful. So much of your success depends on how you view what you do in your day to day life. If you always focus on what’s going wrong you’ll tend to move in that direction. If you take the time to celebrate the little things you do along the way, you’ll build a positive reservoir that will help you move forward.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and invite success into your life?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Helps You Take Action

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Have you ever met someone with big dreams but who never does anything about them? Frequently, the only thing that separates those who succeed from those who stay stuck is the ability to build self-awareness and take action. It sounds obvious but action is a key element in helping us move forward in life. Many individuals remain in the planning or idea phases of life, living with vague hopes that someday they will achieve something.

I’ll let you in on a secret: The people who succeed move their ideas from abstract to concrete by taking action. How does one do it? Here’s another amazing secret: You actually have to do stuff to succeed. The great thing is that you can begin this process at any time. Increasing self-awareness and taking action feels great and it yields positive results because we are actually taking charge of our lives.

Think about the difference between the person who dreams all day and the one who dreams but also does something to make them come true. Here are a couple ideas that will help you move toward action.

1. Think about something you would love to achieve.
2. Come up with five ideas that might help you start working on it.
3. Pick the idea that makes the most sense to you.
4. Take action and do it. Set a short-term date by when you will finish it.

Nothing happens without actually doing something. What will you do to develop self-awareness and take action on today?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and Facing Difficult Issues

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If you possess a high level of self-awareness, you’re probably used to facing difficult issues head on. Many people fall into the trap of pretending that things are going well or avoiding challenging situations at all costs, which leads to constantly having to suppress unresolved issues and trying to fill the resulting void. Here are some things to think about if you’re hesitant to deal with dilemmas:

  • You can handle any issue in your life.
  • You don’t have to take everything on at once.
  • You don’t have to repeat the patterns in your past.
  • You can change.
  • You can move in a positive direction any time you choose.
  • You can take one small step today toward dealing with the issue.
  • You can keep taking small steps.
  • You can adjust your approach as needed.

The only way to truly grow as a person is to consciously decide to stop doing things that don’t work. Building self-awareness means getting to know yourself well at every level and having the courage to resolve thorny situations. Anyone can avoid challenges, what will you do to face your issues directly?

Cheers,

Guy

The Self-Awareness Guy