Self Awareness
Self Awareness
Self awareness is the first step in any self development/improvement/coaching process, you first need to become aware of where you are.
You can’t move on to somewhere else without first knowing where you are right now. You need to be self aware to know what you need more of, less of, what you need to stop, what you need to change etc.
So how self aware are you? Which category would you put your self in?
A
B
C
D
Never really thought about it.
Friends tell me I’m always late
I think I’d say I’m organised
I know my strengths and weaknesses
I know my bad habits
I have a belief system
I know my values and live by them
I know my strengths
I know my bad habits
I am aware of my good habits
I am aware of my patterns of thinking
I know my triggers
I monitor my reactions
I am aware of negative emotions I’ve manifested
I am aware of my beliefs and how they limit me
I know my best times of day for being productive
I know if I am creative or analytical
I am aware of my hang ups
I know what motivates me
A
Start thinking about it, maybe ask some (nice) friends how they would describe you.
Ask for feedback at work, write a list of your strengths and weaknesses.
Take a psychometric/personality test.
B
Start thinking about it, maybe
Get a journal and write out a mission statement
Write a list of your values and morals
C
Keep a journal. Log how you feel each day, this can be in as much detail as you like, or maybe just a score from 0-10.
Log your regular thoughts.
add a list of the things that wind you up and consider why these things bother you?
Add to your journal your negative beliefs about yourself.
Then your positive beliefs about yourself.
If you don’t already have a coach get one, they help you explore yourself and then get to work with you to improve the parts that need improving.
D
So obviously if you’re in D you’re doing a great job, although we are always learning and picking up new processes to it’s always work in progress. Keep questioning yourself, why do you do what you do? Why do you behave in a certain way? Which of your habits are helpful and which aren’t?
If you don’t already have a coach get one, they help you explore yourself and then get to work with you to improve the parts that need improving.
Being self aware is all about knowing yourself implicitly, if you know yourself you know how to get the best out of yourself. Most of my coaching clients are very self aware as the process of coaching is based around self awareness, it’s a bit like following a map, you have to keep checking to see if you are going wrong and readjust accordingly.
James is a coaching client of mine, he came to me recently and he had noticed he had some money blocks, he had a tendency to self sabotage where earning money is concerned. He knew exactly what he was experiencing, so we could correct the issue immediately. He had a great level of self awareness as he had been in the coaching process for sometime. Had he not been self aware then there would have been lots of exploratory work to do. Some people go through life unaware of where they are going wrong, or not even aware that going wrong has anything to with them.