Self Awareness And Personal Growth

What do you want? If someone is to ask you this question right now, are you able to genuinely answer it? Do you know yourself enough, to have a clear picture of what would bring fulfillment in your life? The reason why most people don’t know what they want is because they don’t know themselves and they let outside factors determine, what they may or may not have. Myles Munroe says most people are so focused on dating others that they forget to date themselves. One of the reasons why most people are stuck in jobs they hate and fail to tell you what they would rather be doing is because they never took time to understand themselves and what they would like to, instead they let life determine what they do. It does not need rocket science to show you that if you fail to plan for your life somebody else will, and guess what it might not be favorable for you. We get to see this happen in our daily lives. I struggled with this area in my life, and I am still work in progress.

Self – Awareness is the answer to most of life’s challenges and is important to your personal growth. From his book, 15 Laws of Growth John Maxwell writes about the law of Awareness, “You must know yourself to grow yourself” Personal development is about becoming better. How do you improve if you have no/little knowledge of where you are right now? No one can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. The process of growth allows you to know yourself. You need to know yourself to grow yourself, at the same time growth allows you to know yourself!!

To achieve any lasting change in any area of your life, the first step is awareness, the second is acceptance. Lack of awareness can cost you the most valuable asset you got time!!!. Almost every man wastes part of his life in an attempt to display qualities which he does not possess. Strive to be part of that small percent of those who know themselves and get the best out of life.

Self – Awareness is simply having a clear perception of your personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. It is considered as a strong mechanism of self-control. Psychologist Daniel Coleman defines it as knowing one’s internal states, preferences, resources, and intuitions. Here are some of the few benefits of self-awareness. 

Benefits of Self Awareness   

• Improves your confidence
• Makes decision making easy
• Gives you a clear vision of what you what to achieve
• Helps you create healthy boundaries
• Helps you build healthy relationships

Challenge yourself to date you, That’s right to take time to know yourself and you will experience a massive change in your relationships, finances, career and any other area of life.

#Do Life Big#Become the best version of you!

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