Inform Yourself

SELF AWARENESS AND SUCCESS!

What is self awareness? Webster’s distionary defines self awareness as “an awareness of one’s own personality or individuality”. What are they really saying and how does this relate to success?

Let’s start by breaking down each component of the Webster’s definition. Personality is the complex characteristics that distinguish you from everyone else in the world. Your personality is the totality of all of your behavioral and emotional characteristics. These are your unique distinctive traits and characteristics.

Your individuality is your total character unique to you that distinguishes you from all others. Your individuality is those traits that make each one of us unique.

To become more self aware you must first willing to be totally open and honest with yourself. The above definitions don’t say this but it is implied. In order to have superior self awareness you must be willing to accept those characteristics about yourself that you may make you uncomfortable. To become self aware, you must focus on you noting of all your unique characteristics, behaviors, and emotions. Those that you enjoy and are comfortable with are your strengths. Those that you are less comfortable with or do not enjoy are your weaknesses. Make a complete list of all of your strengths and weaknesses.

Once you accept and understand your strengths and weaknesses, you are miles ahead of the majority of the population in moving towards success. Most people are uncomfortable admitting their weaknesses. This is unfortunate because the better you understand them the greater your opportunity for success.

In order to achieve success, you must define exactly what success means to you. We each have our own unique definitions for success. Some examples of how we all define success differently is noted in the fact that some people are driven by materialistic things, some strive for more social causes, others are driven by the quest for knowledge, and still others are driven by some combination some or all of the above.

So now you have the two key ingredients to achieving true success. You have increased self awareness and your unique definition of success.

So how do you use your self awareness to achieve success? First, identify which of your unique characteristics you need to utilize in order to achieve your definition of success. Take note if the characteristics you need to utilize are strengths or weaknesses. Ideally you will want to maximize the use of your strengths and supplement these with continued development of your identified areas for improvement. The more you can utilize your strengths the faster you will achieve your success.

Next, continue developing those areas you identified which are necessary for you to achieve your success. Develop them so you become a master of these strengths. You want people to identify you as a genius in these areas. Develop those areas which you noted are weaknesses but are necessary for you to achieve your success. This is critical in order for you to achieve your success.

Finally, take action towards your success. You now understand your uniqueness’s, true definition of success, and what you need to do in order to achieve your success.

True self awareness is the complete understanding of yourself, your strengths and weaknesses and how they relate to your definition of success. You should now understand which of your characteristics are most important in achieving your success. The more self aware you are the more likely you are to achieve your success.

"Be willing to be uncomfortable. Be comfortable being uncomfortable. It may get tough, but it is a small price to ay for living a dream." Peter McWilliams

The more self aware and willing to be uncomfortable you are, the greater your probability of success.