01/24/2025
wykyk. no pun intended.
With self awareness comes choice.
We often act on autopilot, driven by habits, emotions, and routines. These are underpinned by thoughts, behaviours, values, and beliefs - a part of us. However, when you're self-aware, you can identify patterns and with that, evaluate whether these patterns serve you and your goals.
5 tips to self-awareness:
1. See yourself. It could through journaling, recording, a coach - find a way to mirror back your words, behaviours, and thoughts. If you can't see it, you can't reflect on it.
2. Take time to reflect. Seek to understand what you're seeing about yourself.
3. Pause, don't analyze. Understanding and analyzing are two different actions (and verbs). There is nothing you need to do, yet, except understand what you're learning about yourself.
4. Hold judgment. This is who you are. You simply are. This statement is also about acceptance.
5. Hold space for yourself. This could be allowing the emotions to emerge (in a safe space), meditating, allowing a quiet moment, honoring yourself, be in free flow with yourself. Give yourself permission to feel all of you.
Explore more on learning how to be self-aware in the book: Hello (World) ME.
