What is the purpose of developing self-awareness?
Self-awareness is the picture you form of yourself when you articulate your strengths, weaknesses and personality traits.
If you underestimate yourself, you may set the bar too low in various tasks, so there will be no real sense of achievement if you jump it. Whereas, if you overestimate yourself, you may set the bar too high and be disappointed if you fail to complete the task set. The happy medium can be achieved by developing self-awareness.
How much do you respect yourself?
As I said, step 0 in both career and business is to be aware of yourself. The most important foundation stone, above all else, is loyalty and respect for yourself.
The tragedy is that most people do not know themselves and have nothing to be loyal to. - (Sándor Márai)
We cannot gain self-knowledge in one go, but how easy it would be if we could just introduce ourselves: - Dear Me! I would like to introduce myself.
But that's not how self-awareness works. It's not its simplicity that's the problem, but rather its frequency. Developing self-awareness is an ongoing, adventurous task. Which is not a fairytale journey, but a real story, your authentic story.
Let's go back to the question, "What is the purpose of developing self-awareness?"
We often ask ourselves why this is happening to me, and why now, when everything seemed to be going so well...???
Here is the key: a was seen.
Self-awareness, self-examination, self-image, personality shaping and development, all serve the purpose of avoiding appearances. Through the process, you will not be vulnerable to external circumstances, you will have a clearer picture of what to invest your energy in, which strengths to focus on, and what is unnecessary to focus on because you would need more time or money to develop them than, say, someone else who is strong in that particular skill. Isn't it more promising to start with a competitive advantage?
During the development of Self-awareness, you will become aware that you have good and bad sides, strengths and weaknesses, and some things you can easily change, but others require a longer learning process.
Know that you are your own resource! Marketing, sales, communication, business development are just more tools to polish your diamond, yourself!
Point zero: self-awareness
In my worldview, self-knowledge is the basis of everything, and that's the end of this article...
There is so much stimulation and temptation every day, with messages from the media offering quick learning, better salespeople, excellent storytelling, authentic branding, professional copywriting. You scratch your head and when you read their description, you know it's for you. So you pick the most attractive online training or in-person presentation and go. If online, let's say you listen. You think about it. And you just think about it... and then you get disappointed, and in the end you come to the conclusion that it was all a bad choice because speaker XY is not a good professional - that doesn't work in your profession - it's not for you - you got scammed, you didn't get what you were promised...
Yes. Almost everyone is disappointed or desperate - because they don't get the miracle they were promised. But the instructor has put his heart and soul into it. But it didn't go through, it didn't take root, it wasn't the right soil for new ideas and new methods.
Why develop self-awareness?
Why all this? Because there is no good self-awareness, or self-awareness needs to be developed even further.
Because you will be able to make decisions on your own and without outside influence. You no longer need to read the customer reviews or ask Marika. Because you will most likely know what to choose and when.
This will help you make good decisions, for example about which course to take.
With your improved self-awareness, you will be able to integrate what you learn in the courses into your own thoughts and activities. Then you will be authentic. Then dare to be yourselfbecause, you know, you're starting to figure out who you are. What's right for you, and what direction you need to go in (after all, without a goal, where are we going?!)
Secondly, it is necessary because you see failure as learningbecause you will find something to learn from rejection.
Self-knowledge is like a guide to help you in your daily life, to keep you moving forward, to keep you on track and to help you reach your goal sooner. Speaking of purpose? How can you have a good goal if you don't know yourself? You see, thirdly, you need to know yourself and develop your self-awareness in order to set your goals.
As you learn, the world around you changes, you will have a broader perspective, you will see things from a different angle, you will see opportunities, you will recognise difficulties, but you will not see them as a setback, but as a task to be solved, because through continuous self-improvement you will learn and experience what you are really capable of.
And the result of the development
There is no metric that tells you how many units you have improved. Although if you are a salesperson, you will see results in numbers. How far you've come, where you're at... But you'll also see the results when you look back over the last six months, a year - you'll be the most surprised yourself. So you can see where you are.
You look at who's with you, what new relationships you've made, what old relationships have died that no longer support your development. You see, it's already Area 4, which is affected by self-awareness roaming.
And health cannot be left out of the relationships... I know about myself and my family that we are almost unaware of the epidemic that tends to strike us, even if something gets us, we recover faster, we get through illnesses more easily. And already the 5th reason why you should take care of yourself, respect yourself, give the dormant your resource.
You are on the right track if you always see something to learn about yourself.
The beauty of this is that in developing your self-awareness, you'll also get to know different tools, you'll find out what methods are needed. Most likely these will be quite varied in different life situations, don't be afraid to try things out.
What do I mean? You could start with a safer coaching session, then some positive psychology, then some mentoring, some numerology, maybe an access bar, maybe meditation and mind control... the tools are almost endless.
The only thing you need to focus on is to keep improving yourself, take care of your soul, and give yourself space to absorb the new resources you "feed off". For example, learn time management, communication, sales, storytelling, copywriting, and whatever other professional stuff you come across:-)
Side effects of self-improvement
Mostly positive. You almost don't notice it, but you are also in contact with other people who can support you further in your development - both in business and in your personal life. But it's not just your social relationships that change, you're more balanced, happier, have fewer illnesses to deal with, because you're more balanced psychologically too. Your environment senses this and appreciates it. Try it:-)
Sometimes you may want to know where you are on your journey of self-discovery... Then seek an expert, ask for help, feel free.
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