Self awareness is the first step in emotional intelligence and it’s certainly the first step when wanting to change things when you’re not happy with your life. Without self awareness how would you know where to start? How would you know for example:
- The truth of the current situation
- What impact fear is having on the current outcome
- What beliefs you have that may be helping or hindering you
- How your language is impacting how you’re feeling
- Whether you need to push a head or pull back
- What you get passionate about
- Whether what you get passionate about is aligned with those around you
- What you’re motivated towards (pleasure) or away from (the pain)
- Whether you’re better working with others on the changes you want to make, or
- If you’re better doing it on your own, and
- Which of mind, body, heart and soul is the best place to start.
Understanding your answers to the questions above will certainly make life easier if you’re wanting to make changes.
Alison Smith
Helping business relationships become more self aware
This blog is part of a series of blogs on making changes when life isn’t how you’d like it and perhaps includes more frustration than joy. Here’s the first in the series I wrote earlier in the week. Links above are to previous blogs to give you more insight on your answer to each question.
