Title: 10 Simple Ways to Improve Your Self-Awareness [With Examples]
Headings: 10 Simple Ways to Improve Your Self-Awareness [With Examples]
10 Simple Ways to Improve Your Self-Awareness [With Examples]
Table of Contents
What is self-awareness?
What are the benefits of self-awareness?
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10 examples of how to increase self-awareness
1. Pay attention to what bothers you about other people
2. Meditate on your mind
3. Read high-quality fiction
4. Identify your emotional kryptonite
5. Draw a timeline of your life
6. Ask for feedback (and take it well)
7. Do some micro-travel
8. Learn a new skill
9. Identify cognitive distortions
10. Make time to clarify your values
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Content: If you want to improve your relationships, start by trying to become more self-aware. Improved moods. Our mood and how we tend to feel hour-to-hour is largely dependent on how we choose to think and behave. When we improve our awareness of the relationship between thoughts, behavior, and emotion, it becomes easier to regulate our feelings and moods. Clearer thinking and better decision-making. Poor decision-making often comes from muddled thinking and strong emotional reactions. When we become more aware of our habits of thought and feeling, we can more easily distinguish between short term impulses or desires and long term values and goals. More effective communication. Achieving a clearer sense of what you believe and what you really want makes it far easier to communicate in any aspect of life, whether it’s with a spouse, manager at work, or best friend. The better we know ourselves, the easier it is to communicate assertively, to be honest about what we would like and respectful of the wishes of others.