The job description for self-awareness

Self-awareness has a role. It serves a purpose in your life and for your life. But what is that purpose? If you had to write a job description for self-awareness, what would you write?

Test yourself and write out that description before you continue reading.

The purpose of self-awareness is to:

• build a healthy relationship with yourself.
• keep you in a healthy relationship with the environment around you.
• show you the factors affecting your quality of life.
• show you misalignment within yourself.
• show you risks and opportunities in the environment.
• inform your immediate decisions and long-term direction.
• feed your self-confidence.
• push you into self-disciplined action.

It’s not the role of self-awareness to:

• freeze you in analysis.
• highlight your flaws and mistakes.
• hide your talents and strengths.
• push you into self-judgment.
• turn you into a self-critic.
• undermine your self-confidence.
• lock you in a self-imposed prison.
• trap you in a habitual cycle of anxiety, disappointment, and regret.

If self-awareness is going to do its job and play a valuable role in your life, then you should understand what that role is.
The next question is whether you’re using it correctly for the role it’s intended to play.

Event + Response = Outcome. Do the work.