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

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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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5 Easy Ways To Control Your Inner Voice

What To Expect?

In today’s article, 5 easy ways to control your inner voice. The discussion will be about the power the inner voice has over us and how we can best use it. We all have an inner voice whether it’s a loud voice or a silent voice. Both can affect us the same way. By taking control of this inner voice we will find true power in life over our decision making.

What Is An Inner Voice?

An inner voice, self-talk or an internal monologue. However, you like to call it.

Is stated online as a “person’s inner voice which provides a running verbal monologue of thoughts while they are conscious. It is usually tied to a person’s sense of self”.

For sure this is true for the majority of people. For some their inner voice is not a verbal monologue but of silent thoughts that don’t pop up like a Morgan Freeman monologue. More studies need to be done on the effects this has on peoples motivation.

Until recently I only found out myself that people have an inner monologue like in films whereas I only have silent thoughts more based on feelings than dialogue.

How It Affects The Mind

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An inner voice can effectively affect how you feel. If your inner voice is self-critical this will affect your overall self-esteem and your overall decision making. The inner voice can turn a high performing person into a shadow of their former self. When the inner voice creates a vacuum of negativity and doubt. Performance, mental health and thought patterns will change.

On the other hand, if your inner voice is supporting, encouraging and confident then performance, mental health and thought patterns will be enhanced to a positive outlook.

We know within ourselves these two inner voices and how it makes us feel and how life changes because of it. Unfortunately, no one within the education system in western culture to my knowledge is teaching this and how to control our inner voice to benefit our lives.

That’s why we need to teach ourselves and the people we teach, mentor and guide through life. The effects our inner voice has on our life.

Be Wary Of The Inner Bitch Lurking

If you don’t already know. I’m a massive fan of David Goggins. His mindset is a breath of fresh air. In one of his Instagram posts. He talks about being wary of the inner bitch lurking in all of us. His inner bitch is the 300-pound former self who always lurking ready to tempt him to eat the unhealthy option, to have a day off when it gets hard.

I think this is spot on. No matter how much we improve there is always going to be an inner voice within us that wants to revert back to our comfortable self. By understanding this and knowing what part of your life your inner voice is trying to lure you back to. This is self-awareness working in action. This is how you learn when it comes out, where it’s lurking and this help you have control over your inner voice that can benefit you. But remember the inner bitch will always be lurking.

5 Easy Ways To Control Your Inner Voice

1. Exercise

A quick way to get hold of that negative inner voice is by exercising. When we exercise it releases amazing chemicals that change the way we feel and think. The lazy inner voice wants you to stay on the couch and do nothing but by just exercising straight away that inner voice will be replaced by a winning one.

2. Understand When It Comes Alive

By being self-aware it allows us to understand ourselfes we wouldn’t normally recognise. When it comes to our inner voice. There will be certain times when it comes alive more than it normally does. Is it when there’s a challenge or when trying something new. Whatever it is, knowing when it happens allows you to quieten the negative inner voice with a conscious positive inner voice that moves you forward instead of holding you back.

3. Writing

Writing is a great way to change a negative inner voice. What writing can do is put thoughts to paper and you can see whether what your thinking is true or not. Plus the writing is like muscle training for the brain. When we write we naturally become positive and our inner voice realigns into a positive inner voice.

4. Have A Performance Coach

If you find it hard to change your inner voice. Having your own performance coach can help change the way your inner voice responds. There are countless professional athletes and people running their own business who have performance coach and the reason why it allows them to their best selves all the time. Even if you’re not a sports star or CEO of a company. You can still find affordable methods to have your own performance coach with who you can touch base weekly.

5. Let It Speak Then Tell It To F**k Off

A great tip from the book The Willpower Instinct. Is that any negative thoughts you have? Don’t fight it. Just let it pass through and then tell it to move along and change the thoughts to what you want to do. This brings an improvement in self-control and the overcoming of negative thoughts. By understanding, they don’t have control over me but I do them.

Over To You

I hope you enjoyed today’s article, 5 easy ways to control your inner voice.

We all have an inner voice. But some use it to their advantage and others just let it happen to them.

Make it a habit to be in charge of your inner voice and be the guide for your future self.

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