Self-Awareness: Your Key to Personal Fulfillment
No one else has control over your growth and personal fulfilment but you. We were gifted with life but how we live it, value it, and make peace with it is entirely up to us.
When we are self-aware, we see ourselves as we truly are. And when we can recognize our flaws and celebrate our strengths, we are able to forgive and praise ourselves. The journey to self-awareness demands patience, humility, and most of all, love.
Are you ready to develop self-awareness? Here’s how:
Meditation and Prayer
It’s essential to your well-being to make time for personal reflection. When you find quiet to be one with self, God, and nature, your self-awareness increases. Meditation allows you know yourself as both a physical and spiritual being, connecting you with your mind, body, and spirit – all the elements that when aligned, allow you to live a fulfilling life.
Journaling
Journaling helps connect you with yourself and put you in a state of mindfulness. If your mind has a tendency to wander, sitting down and putting your thoughts on paper helps you call its attention. It demands you to engage with your thoughts.
And the more that you chronicle the events of your life, whether it’s an ordinary or significant event, you start to become very aware of who are you are by how you react to situations. As you catalogue all your personal achievements and past doubts, you recognize who you are in both moments of triumph and defeat.
Look in the Mirror
How comfortable are you looking at yourself in the mirror?
When a person suffers from a lack of self-confidence, they have difficulty looking at themselves in the mirror. They don’t like what they see. However, to live a life fulfilled, you need to make peace with the person you see in your reflection. Don’t let society shame you into believing you should look a certain way. Only you have the right to say what is wrong for you.
Make time to stand in the mirror and appreciate your reflection and the gift that you’ve been given. Look eye to eye with who you see. And smile at the person who has gotten you to where you are today.
Personal Retreat
Check into a local hotel, go out of town, or close the curtains and lock the door to your room. It doesn’t matter where you go as long as you retreat to a place where you can be alone. Unscheduled time for self-care is critical to your well-being. And it’s also one of the secrets to finding yourself by reassessing your current situation.
It’s an opportunity for you to review your core values and how they’re improving the quality of your life. A personal retreat is the perfect time for you to reflect on how to remove anything in your daily routine that may be working against your values, causing “drain.”
Accountability
Do you have a circle of trusted confidants? The beauty of having friends who are honest with you is that they see the greatness in us that we are often too humble to admit or oblivious to realize is there. They remind us of our potential without stroking our egos. They keep us in-line when we veer off-course.
Are you currently on a journey to develop self-awareness? What’s worked for you? How often do you journal? Do you say encouraging words to yourself in the mirror? I’d love to hear about it.
Dr. Yashima White Azilove
I am an international speaker, certified coach and skilled consultant with over 20 years of corporate brand communications executive experience in the media, entertainment, healthcare and financial service industries. I now use my expertise in brand communications to ELEVATE audiences, corporations, celebrity/talent and faith organizations.