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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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Prepare The Mind To Fail

In the world of personal development, there is an emphasis on positivity towards visualisation of your future and a focus on everything positive. The problem with this mindset is that it sounds amazing in the preparation stage, but when real life happens, failure is inevitable.

What kills peoples confidence and dreams is a lack of preparation for failure. I have too been focused on all the positives that will happen and ending up a week later confidence shot and wanting to quit. Your expectation vs reality is crucial for your success and expecting failure and planning for all possible problems is of importance.

Training the mind to prepare for failure is actually a positive mindset. It’s very different to expecting yourself to lose because one is your attitude you can control and the other is your environment and being a flawed human which you have little control over.

So when you are sitting down to plan your world domination. Prepare the mind to fail at some stage. This will mentally prepare you to overcome this challenge and not set you back by giving up at the first hurdle.

Prepare For The Plan To Go Wrong

Once you have prepared the mind of all the potential failures that might arise. You also have to prepare the mind that your plan and the strategy that you have created will fail at some point.

I have personally spent hours detailing plans for myself and my team’s success. Always when I set them I expect them to go to plan even though I know that something out of the blue will happen that I didn’t plan for.

That’s why with every plan you should do all the best practices to planning but always have space and flexibility for it to change. When planning now I have a part that says.

“What will I do when it all goes wrong.”

Then I write.

“I will remain calm and be excited to find new solutions to solve my problems.”

This very sentence allows me to be ok with failure and not let it trap me. Instead, it allows me to move forward and re-enter back on the correct path.

The best analogy I can think of is the yellow brick road. The plan is the route and the goal is the wizard at the end of the path. The deviations of the lion, tinman and scarecrow are the parts that are failure and problems that have occurred and when you solve these problems only then can you get back on your path to your goal.

Make Failure Your Friend

Failure for many of us is painful. It’s that painful you can even train the brain to be so comfortable it does anything it can to avoid failure. Failure is seen too much within society as a bad thing but this is not true in reality.

How many famous inventors failed before they invented something everyone needed. You must know artists paintings that have failed to then years later to be loved. How many actors failed audition after audition to become movie stars and how many business owners failed to then to become the richest men and women alive. You can probably think of one for each category.

Failure is important as it allows you to understand where you went wrong.

Train your mind to make failure your friend will be the most important decision you could ever make. When you don’t train your mind for failure, it will destroy you mentally, but it will guide you to success when you do train your mind for failure.

Failure was once my enemy and now it’s my friend.

How To Train The Mind For Failure To Succeed

Best Practices To Train The Mind For Failure

Expect it will happen
Treat it as a challnege
Plan for it to happen
Take time to understand your failure
When you fail understand your headed to the right destination just on the wrong path

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Has this helped you today? Does failing seem a little less scary now?

A Final Word From The Future Mindset

I hope you enjoyed today’s article How To Train The Mind For Failure To Succeed. If you need extra help or any questions answered. Don’t hesitate to contact me at adam@thefuturemindset.com

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