Are you starting to see how having a greater sense of self-awareness
is going to help you to level up in your leadership and really to be
able to take on those leadership positions with ease and poise and
composure?
If that's you, then in this video, I'm going to share with you four
very simple ways on how to improve your level of self-awareness so
that you can achieve these outcomes and lead effectively.
So, first of all, what is self-awareness?
We hear this a lot in the news, in the media, social media, especially
in all over the internet, we hear this term self-awareness and there
may be a million and different one different definitions of
self-awareness, but I want to give you one distinction about it so
that you can have clarity, because if we don't have a distinction
about something it's really difficult to set a goal towards it, if we
don't know what it looks like.
So when it come to self awareness, what it is is a state of mind.
It's a state of mind having self-awareness being self-aware is a state
of mind, and it's in that state of mind, where we have consciousness.
We are conscious of our personality.
We're conscious of our characteristics and our traits.
But on the flip side, we're also conscious of our motivations for
certain behaviors.
We're also conscious of our beliefs and our world views.
We're also very conscious of our personal philosophies.
And if you really reflect on your personal, personal philosophies on
your world views and your beliefs as well, these are the things that
drive your decisions.
And these are the things that drive your behaviors in moment by
moment, and also generally as well.
So as you can appreciate from this distinction about self awareness,
once you do have a greater sense of self-awareness, it really does
affect how you experience yourself.
So why is it so important to experience yourself in a different way?
Well, we all understand why it's important to experience other
people's in certain ways, because if you have a negative experience
with someone else that affects what your relationship is, and the same
thing is true with how you have experiences of yourself, how do you
have these experiences?
What are they like?
Are they, are they inspiring to you?
Are they fulfilling to you?
And that really affects your relationship with self.
So that's why it's important to really decide what is the experience
you want to have with yourself.
And therefore it is a reflection of how you view yourself as well and
how your opinion of yourself.
So in this video, I'm going to give you four simple ways.
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So I'm going to give you the ABCs, the ABCs on improving
self-awareness.
So every one of my points, the four simple ways we'll start with ABCD.
So the first point is point number a a is to ask awareness inducing
questions, awareness inducing questions.
What do I mean by that?
These are the unasked questions of our life.
We're so busy and we've been programmed by the school system that
we're going to come up with the right answers.
We've been programmed to look for the solutions, to be able to answer
questions, come up with the right answer as well.
And we've been programmed like this ever since a very young age in
school.
The well, while it is intelligent, it can be very smart to come up
with the right answer.
It is genius to be able to come up with the right questions and we are
not taught in school or at work.
We're not taught how to ask great questions.
We're not taught how to ask the unasked questions.
So therefore, when you are able to unmask these unasked questions
across all domains of your life, then this is where it really opened
up your mind to be more expansive at understanding who you are and
what drives you.
What motivates you, what truly that you value.
And this gives you a greater sense of self-awareness.
If you think about it, we're so focused on doing things.
We're we become human doings.
We're so focused on doing things we're so busy at getting our
to-do list checked off.
We're so busy at doing that we don't spend a lot of time at all on the
who aspect of it.
We are spending a lot of time on doing and achieving and
accomplishing, but what about who we are, who we are, who we become,
and it's impossible to be able to do the things that are necessary.
It's not possible to be able to do the things that are important
either without becoming the person who can do them.
So that's why it's important to be able to ask these awareness
inducing questions.
Because once you ask these questions and you're able to go through the
reflective awareness process of it, it expands your awareness of self.
It changes your experience of self, and therefore you become a lot
more conscious of the things that drive you.
And therefore you can influence yourself in positive ways.
So if you're somebody who's really serious around, how do I ask myself
these inducing questions, awareness inducing questions?
And you're really serious about how do I become the person I need to
become.
I know the value of it, but I just don't know the steps.
If that is you, and you want these outcomes for your life, because you
want to be a better leader because you want to be a better parent, or
maybe because you want to be a better friend.
If that is you and you want to be empowered in your life, in these
aspects and have meaningful relationships as well, then I invite you
to come to my classes.
Every single week, this is where I host and I teach you all aspects
of how to have greater sense of self-awareness, how to empower
yourself in all of these domains.
But more importantly, how do you ask these questions?
And remember, questions are your answers.
And whenever you ask a question, it really does determine the outcome
that you can produce in your life as well.
When you ask a different question, your brain goes into seeking mode.
And when you seek an answer to a certain question, the question you
ask, if it's not a quality question, it gives you a non-quality answer
as well.
So the quality of our life and the outcomes we produce in our
relationships are reflecting a reflection of the quality of questions
we ask ourselves.
And we ask along the way.
So in below this video is a description and there's a link in the, in
the, the first link in the description below.
And that is really an application.
And this is where it's just an exploration.
You'll get on a call with either myself or someone from my team.
And we're going to explore whether or not this is the right fit for
you.
And if I could truly help you with what you're looking for.
So if it is the right fit, you know, then we invite you in and this is
where every week you can develop the skillset every week, you can hone
and refine your self-awareness.
But more importantly, you can empower yourself to higher levels of
leadership.
This is ABCD.
And then we're now on point letter B, so B is to balance your
perspective about yourself.
So when it comes to our own self perspectives, oftentimes we have a
one-sided perspective and we have an expectation towards perfection.
We have an expectation towards our performance.
We have expectations towards our intelligence.
We have expectations towards how we can create support among along the
way and how we can attract acceptance of ideas and acceptance of
ourselves.
And this is a one-sided perspective because when it comes to you, you
are more than just being accepted.
You are more than just being able to perform.
You are more than just being able to produce certain outcomes for your
organizations, for your teams.
So when you balance out your perspective, this is what allows you to
be objective, absent this balance of perspective, we have a very
biased view on ourselves.
We have biased expectations.
We have biased views on ourselves, and that can really affect our
self-esteem and our self worth.
But when you truly balance out your perspectives, this is where you
see the wholeness of who you are and the completeness of who you are.
And this is where you can be objective at where you're at.
And at the same time, this is where you have yourself worth.
So that is point B to balance your perspectives on yourself.
Point letter C, is to choose your inspiring problems.
Most people go through life and their career and their relationships.
They let problems show up in their life.
They let problems come show up, and then they deal with them.
But what if I told you that you don't have to wait for problems to
appear?
Because if you don't take empowerment, if you don't take control over
the problems that come into your life, then problems will come into
your life unexpectedly, but you have the empowerment to choose what
problems you desire to have.
And if you were, it would be wise if you were to choose problems that
are inspiring to you, problems that are very fulfilling to you to
solve.
And when you are on the way to inspiring problems, filling your days
at solving these inspiring problems, what happens is that your
self-awareness will eventually increase along the way, because you're
going to be naturally inspired to solve those problems.
You're going to be naturally fulfilled at solving those problems.
And you're going to work hard at it because it is aligned with your
highest values.
So when you choose inspiring problems, what's going to happen is
you're going to see each problem will have a seed of opportunity as
well.
And when you see that seed of opportunity, you're naturally driven to
work at it.
You have resilience along the way.
You're not going to go to a predict, procrastinate on it, and you're
going to be good at it because this is something you will be naturally
inspired to do.
And you'll have the resilience, the perseverance, and your
self-awareness increases as well.
Point letter D so a was to ask empowerment and awareness inducing
questions.
B was to balance your perspectives.
C was to choose inspiring problems.
And point letter D is to determine your values.
Your values are very close to you.
They are very close to your identity.
Your values are true to you and your life demonstrates what your
values are.
You can't help it, but you will live in accordance to your highest
values.
You'll be inspired towards your highest values and you will make
actions and decisions according to your highest values.
And your values are not what you think they should be.
Your values are not what you think you should be doing.
And definitely not what others tell you, you should be doing, your
values come from within.
So when you determine what your values genuinely are, not what you
think they should be, not what you hope they could be, but what they
genuinely are and your life is demonstrating it.
This is what allows you to have the highest level of self-awareness.
Because now you know what's truly inspiring to you when you uncover
your values.
This is now you know what is truly, truly fulfilling to you.
And now, you know what, if you work in this area that you can have,
self-worth increases your self worth.
And this is also the path of confidence, the path towards greater
self-confidence.
And as along the way, you're practicing the points, A, B, C, D as
well, and accordingly, you're making steps, striving towards solving
problems that are inspiring to you in alignment with your highest
values, because you are aware of them.
So this is really what creates the deepest level of reflective
awareness.
So you start with self-awareness and as you go along the way you have
what's called reflective awareness, and this is where you are truly
present, and you are your authentic self.
So these are the four simple ways to increase and improve your
self-awareness.
And I have a video coming up next.
So this is on how do you know yourself?
How do you get to know your true self?
And as a result of getting to know your true self, this is how you can
be authentically you and lead from your authentic self.
So that video is coming up right after this stay tuned.
And I will see you there.