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 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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