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8 Benefits of Self-Awareness
When you increase your self-awareness, the ability to recognize the right problem becomes more apparent.
Recently, The Daily Coach conducted a seminar on how to assess teams and organizations’ functionality and progress.
We believe having the right culture in place means asking the right questions, then accurately determining the problems.
One of the key steps to assessment must come from within. As the leader, to solve any problem, big or small, we must be self-aware.
But what does being self-aware actually mean?
Leaders who display a high level of self-awareness can recognize how others see them. They understand their strength and weaknesses, and most importantly, possess the ability to tune into their feelings, thoughts and actions.
People with high levels of self-awareness can:
Recognize their strengths and challenges
Understand and talk about their needs and feelings
Recognize other people’s needs and feelings
See how their behavior affects others
Develop a growth mindset and learn from their mistakes
Author Anthony DeMello goes even deeper into understanding our ability to be aware. In his book “Awareness,” he lays out the benefits of becoming a person with a high degree of self-awareness.
You have to be willing to wake up, to challenge every belief. In the world we currently inhabit, we are feed boatloads of information daily, some right, some wrong, most to steer us in a direction. When we are “aware” we challenge the data.
The wise guru never tries to wake anybody up. When we are aware, we live a life without trying to control others, only ourself.
Clarity of perception leads to accuracy of response. The best part of the book. Understanding perception, allows us to understand the best way to handle a problem.
Life is not the problem. You are the problem. Once you can dissociate, peace and happiness is on the other side.
You see things not as they are, but as you are. When you change, everything changes
When the heart and mind are unobstructed, you become aware and this leads to removing envy, and greed from your life.
You become happy by moment to moment contact with reality—nothing can alter your thoughts; you have a better understanding of the people you encounter.
The ability for self-observation is a superpower. To be truly happy. You don’t have to do anything, simply remove the association with “me” and with the feelings that incurs. The true “I” is the observer, not the me.
When you increase your self-awareness, the ability to recognize the right problem becomes more apparent.
Once we have that clarity, the solutions are then easier to find.