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Why Self-Awareness Matters

Self-awareness is a critical skill to build mindset strength. By being self-aware you will find out your purpose in life. You will find out your strengths and weaknesses and how you can guide yourself in the right direction overcoming obstacles along the way.

When you’re not self-aware, you miss the small things and the bigger picture of life. This will lead to poor decision making on your future self.

How To Build Mindset Strength With Self-Awareness: It Will Unlock Your Purpose

How To Improve Your Self Awareness

Self-awareness just doesn’t come out of thin air. It’s developed over time. There are easy ways you build mental strength through self-awareness. My top 4 are;

Meditation – A study has found that the average person has 6,200 thoughts per day. That is a lot of thoughts running around in our minds. To help pick out the right thoughts that help us increase our self-awareness and find our purpose is to sit and learn to meditate. It can be uncomfortable at first but learning to quieten the mind to find the answers that move us forward is important for being self-aware of the right choices.

Planning – Without planning you are aimless. The chance of executing your goal is slim. But when you are self-aware enough to plan. You will see your execution of reaching a favourable result is huge.

Daily Feedback – To understand and review where you’re currently at in life you have to be self-aware every day to find it. Making this a habit increases your self-awareness muscle to find it easier to know what to improve on. This process helps the brain to digest the day to put it into an order of what needs to be done next.

Build Your Knowledge & Increase Your Experiences – To build self-awareness you have to develop the mind and understand the world around you better. The best way to do this is through reading and gaining experience. To mature as a person travelling the world and live and experience new cultures can do this.

This leads to a better awareness of the world and knowing everyone is going through the same things you are. But it can also be more specific where focus on gaining knowledge and experiences in an area you want more awareness in.

What’s The Benefits Of Being Self Aware

The best thing about self-awareness is that it impacts every area of your life. There are numerous benefits to being self-aware but my top 4 are as follow.

Reduces Stress – Stress is horrible for your mental health and physical health. It feels like your brain is on fire and you don’t act like your true self. Being self-aware to notice when you are stressed and how it was caused. Is a great help to overcome a stressful mind.

Improves Wellbeing – Wellbeing is important more than ever. Being self-aware of what your mind needs and when will help your mental health build the strength it needs to overcome anything. Being self-aware when I need to journal or when I need to talk to someone helps me to keep a level head and overall mental wellbeing.

Decision Making – Making the right decisions in life is crucial to having a life of purpose. Now you don’t have to get every decision right but having it in your favour more times than not is important. Being self-aware is how you attain this. It will allow you to analyse the situation and have an understanding of what needs to be done to make the right decision.

Problem Solving – Being able to problem solve is a skill that is sought after. Self-awareness allows problem-solving to be increased. Buy understanding what’s gone right and what’s gone wrong helps the process of finding solutions much easier.

How To Become Self-Aware Of Your Strengths

Becoming self-aware of your strengths will help you understand what you are good at. A book by Tom Rath called Strength Finder discusses the importance of focusing on your strengths as what unlocks your true potential.

This is true and being self-aware of what your strengths are will allow you not to focus on things you are bad at.

For me when I focus on my strengths everything becomes easier and enjoyable no matter how challenging the task is. But my weaknesses has the opposite effect. This is crucial when looking to find your purpose in life. If you’re doing something you’re not very good at or don’t enjoy. You do not stay doing it for long.

How You Will Find Your Purpose By Being Self-Aware

Finding purpose in life is a key element to building mental strength. The energy and wellbeing it gives you when you’re doing what you love are huge. Self-awareness can play a crucial part in discovering your purpose in life. Everything we have discussed above will help you on your journey to finding purpose. When you are self-aware of what you want. Then you will know that it has to be done.

Make time in your day to focus on being self-aware. Based on your habits, experiences and the knowledge you receive. This is the step to finding your purpose through self-awareness.

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A Final Word From The Future Mindset

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The Effect Limiting Beliefs Have On The Mind

Limiting beliefs comes from the mind. It could be an internal voice in your head or it could be from external sources influencing your beliefs and the view of yourself in the world.

When limiting beliefs are in control of your mind your performance, success and overall wellbeing are greatly affected. If there is no change it will literally destroy your life and rob you of a life of full potential.

The worse thing of all. Your limiting beliefs can be hidden from you. Acted out in the subconscious mind without you even noticing the effects it has on your life. That’s the scary part. This will affect your financial wealth, relationships, career progression and overall happiness.

I too had limiting beliefs around many things growing up. It’s kind of luck of the draw who your parents are, what school you go to and what country you live in. These major factors in your life can hugely determine what you will become. If you are in an environment where everyone thinks all millionaires are bad people or all people from the other village are the enemies. The chances of a child who then grows up into adulthood who still believe this is unfortunately high.

That’s why what you allow into your mind, who you hang around with and where you live is of importance for dispelling limiting thoughts.

The Three Limiting Beliefs

1. Limiting Beliefs From Your Own Mind

The most important of all limiting beliefs is how you think personally of yourself. If you believe you are not enough, won’t win at anything or be in a happy relationship. Those thoughts will create a reality you have to live with. Our very thoughts dictate what will become or close to. The power thoughts have over our lives is the difference between someone living a life of purpose or someone living a life they hate.

2. Limiting Beliefs From Others Around You

We all grow up with adults who influence our lives for good or bad. The effects of this can stay with you for a lifetime. Luckily we live in a world now where you can travel easily, gather knowledge with a click of a finger and this can hugely change your viewpoints.

I too had limiting beliefs from others growing up about many things that now I don’t believe any more thanks to new experiences and being around positive people.

You hear it all the time when adolescents are leaving school and they have a job councillor who advises them on future career paths. The career councillor who hasn’t achieved anything in their own life telling children what they can and can’t become.

Some will use it as motivation but far too many will believe this person viewpoint and consequently, will limit that person from succeeding.

Who you are around and take advice from can impact your life. Blocking out the noice of the naysayers will help you greatly in dispelling your limiting beliefs.

3. Limiting Beliefs From Society

We are inundated with constant feedback from the world around us. It’s harder than ever to distinguish what is true and what’s not. The news will have you believe that a certain race of people is bad and another is good based on their own political agender.

But limiting beliefs can affect you on a more personal level based on your race, religion and class. Overcoming these preconceived notions is crucial for your own success.

I come from a working-class background in Birmingham. If I believed what society thought my career path should be or my role in society. I would be in a completely different position from what I am today.

Societies influence can play a major role in your limiting beliefs. With our keen ability to fit in. Fitting into the wrong belief system can dramatically affect your life.

How To Silence Your Limiting Beliefs : Block Out The Noise

How To Block Out The Noice

Be careful who and what you listen to
Question everything about your own beliefs system
You can choose where you live and who you live with
Spend time with positive and open minded people
Remember you are in control of your thoughts and what you believe in

Create An Identity That Delivers

James Clear explains the importance of creating an identity. If you write, create an identity that you are a writer, if you play the guitar in your spare time create an identity that you are a musician. Creating an identity he explains is of importance when changing your belief system.

What you believe is what you will become and the habit of creating a belief system that helps you deliver the life you want is of major importance.

If you believe you are not smart enough. Create an identity of being a reader, an academic.

If you believe you can’t do something. Create an identity of a confident can-do person.

There is no surprise that many children grow up to do similar things to what their parents do, or copy what they see on TV or what teachers they have in their life.

You are not born with an identity it’s created for you from an early age. The best thing about being an adult is that you can create any identity you want. It will be challenging and uncomfortable but with time and effort, you can dispel any limiting belief for a new identity that delivers self-belief in abundance.

What’s Next For You

Learning to block out the noise of your own limiting thoughts, limiting thoughts of others and limiting thoughts of society is the first step to taking control back of your thought process. We can never control everything but being more self-aware, forging an identity and a life that easily creates self-belief. You will be on track to build your mental strength.

PLEASE COMMENT AND SHARE YOUR STORIES

Where do you think your limiting beliefs come from? I would love to hear your thoughts and your experiences. Always remember you are not alone and everything can change.

A Final Word From The Future Mindset

I hope you enjoyed today’s article How To Silence Your Limiting Beliefs: Block Out The Noise I hope the article has helped in some way. If you need extra help or any questions answered. Don’t hesitate to contact me at adam@thefuturemindset.com

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