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.
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