Self-Aware

Self-Awareness and Going Beyond

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Self-awareness means going beyond your comfort zone and connecting with who you are deep inside instead of living superficially. It’s easy to become used to thinking and behaving a certain way, especially when things are going well. If you’re continuously building self-awareness, you understand that there is no such thing as living statically. Life is an ongoing evolution where you naturally grow and change along the way. Going beyond means you do thing like the following:

  • You don’t get stuck defending negative behaviors.
  • You actively work on healing the hurts from your past.
  • You seek new information and ideas.
  • You’re open to new ways of doing things.
  • You’re comfortable with change.
  • You think and behave in ways that benefit you and others.
  • You live life as the real you.

If you do these types of things, you know how great it feels to learn about yourself and expand your horizons. Building self-awareness isn’t always easy, but it is consistently rewarding because you get to live a genuine and authentic life. What will you do to keep going beyond the average?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Helps Reduce Fear of Rejection

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Self-awareness helps reduce fear of rejection because, when you understand your emotions, thoughts, and behaviors well, you’re able to make decisions based on a healthier perception of yourself and others.

An important element of self-awareness is to understand how your fears influence your path in life. Fear of rejection can keep you from doing many meaningful things like:

  • Being yourself.
  • Speaking your mind.
  • Making friends.
  • Dating.
  • Writing poetry.
  • Being creative.
  • Following your own path.

The key to living happily is to realize that there will always be people who don’t get what you do or who you are, but that it doesn’t matter. You’re valuable as you are and you bring amazing gifts and talents to the table. So what if you get rejected, you’re still your wonderful self.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and reduce your fear of rejection?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness Helps You Not Give Up

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Self-awareness helps you not give up because, when you know yourself deep inside and understand why you feel, think, and behave the way you do, you’re better able to believe in yourself and move forward confidently even in the face of obstacles.

As you try to increase your self-awareness you may find that you don’t progress at the speed you want to. Don’t worry, a natural part of creating change in your life is to keep practicing. Even when you feel like giving up, keep doing small things to move your life forward. Over time you’ll build up your strength and ability to do what you want to do.

Everyone has moments when they fell like they’re failures or will never succeed. The trick is to replace negative emotions, thoughts, and actions with positive ones that will help you get where you want to go. Remember that you’re a valuable person who deserves to keep moving forward.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and not give up?

Cheers,

Guy

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

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 Helps Resolve Unresolved Issues

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For people who lack self-awareness, it’s difficult to even contemplate resolving unresolved issues. It’s a huge challenge to look at ourselves and acknowledge the deep, dark secrets and traumas that guide us or even hold us back in life but it’s a major part of building self-awareness.

I used to live a life where I would do anything but resolve my issues and the results were predictably horrible. I would react to anything and everything based on my inner hurts and make a mess of things without even trying. I had very limited coping skills for any kind of challenging situation and my interpersonal relationship skills were a shambles.

As I’ve continued to work on increasing my self-awareness and resolving my past pain, I’ve become more balanced and happy. I now can think before I act instead of flailing in distress. I much prefer being able to make calm, conscious decisions instead of letting life just happen to me.

What will you do to develop self-awareness and resolve your unresolved issues?

Cheers,

Guy

Self-Awareness and the Five Steps to Success

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Many people I consult with, and who lack self-awareness, ask me if there is a secret to success. There really isn’t a secret, it just requires purposeful action, which means that we are fully conscious and have thought about every action that we take. We don’t leave things to chance except when appropriate and we consciously do things to improve our self-awareness and keep working on the issues in our lives that require attention.

Think of success in terms of practical things you can do to move in whatever direction you want. The following steps will help you achieve what you want in life but there is one caveat: you have to take action.

  1. Define what success means to you.
  2. Break your definition into parts and give each one a clear name. These become your goals.
  3. Select one goal you want to work on.
  4. Brainstorm different tasks that will help you achieve your goal.
  5. Pick one task and follow it through to completion.

Use these five steps to keep progressing. Success is based on continuous movement and action. With each action you complete, you become stronger and more successful. Don’t worry too much about what goal you choose or what action to take, it is the act of doing things that creates the change in your life.

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

Cheers,

Guy

The Self-Awareness Guy