Can you trust yourself? Or do you have doubts when you have to make an important decision in life? Do you know what your strengths and weaknesses are? Do you know what is really important for yourself in a difficult situation? Do you know what is important to you when making a difficult decision? What ways are there to increase self-awareness? The better self-awareness is developed, the better behavior can be adapted.
Benefit
What is the benefit of developing your self-awareness? If you have sufficiently developed your self-awareness, you will be able to:
- Better make difficult decisions,
- To trust yourself completely,
- Keeping good intentions,
- Maintain new behavior
- Knowing which changes in your life work for you,
- To know what change you need in your life,
- To get the best out of yourself,
- To get the best out of your life.
Personality
What is self-awareness? Self-awareness is that you are aware of yourself: you are your own personality. Self-awareness is part of your emotional maturity. Whatever decision you have to make in life, through sufficient self-awareness you know that you can trust yourself.
Yourself
What do you know about yourself? Do you know enough about yourself, so that when you make a difficult decision in your life, you know what is really important to you in this situation? Know more about yourself such as:
- What are your strong points?
- What are your weaknesses?
- What are your motivations in life?
- What norms and values do you apply in life?
- What character traits characterize you?
- What are you good at?
- What are you less good at?
- Who are you?
- Why are you the way you are?
Difficult
It is sometimes difficult to understand yourself. Why is it important to know more about yourself? The more you know about yourself, the more you can trust yourself. For example:
- Do you find it difficult to be ignored? Why is it difficult?
- Do you feel uncomfortable around successful people? Why don’t you feel comfortable? Lack of experience? Or do you have doubts about your own qualifications?
- You describe a problem in detail, but you are reluctant to make a decision. Why is that?
- You are very light-hearted about the many changes at work, while it is clear that these changes are keeping you busy. Why are you being so light-hearted?
- Why do you hesitate to become a self-employed entrepreneur when you have all the qualifications? Afraid of being successful?
Influence
By knowing ourselves better and understanding ourselves better, you are able to better determine what your own influence is in a particular situation. The better you know yourself, the more confidence you have and the better you can handle a difficult situation.
To develop
How do you develop self-awareness? By the following steps:
- Personality Profile . Determine your personality profile by experts. You can work with the Enneagram, DISC, Myers Briggs. Always let an expert explain the outcome, your profile!
- Feedback . Receive honest and sincere feedback from important people in your life, from people whose opinions you respect. Please note that this is a feedback from these people’s perception. Decide for yourself what you want to do with this information. The added value is in the feedback.
- Keep a diary or learning diary. Write regularly about your daily experiences, thoughts and reflections. Experience your own behavior and experiences. This journaling can be a powerful learning tool to both increase and develop your self-awareness.
- Books . Collect and read as much information as possible about practical psychology and human behavior. Choose topics that interest you and are easy to read. Reading is a good means of self-reflection. The new topics increase your ability to increase self-awareness.