This is a guest post from Tyler Hansel, a writer in residence at the University of Georgia, who is currently teaching a course on “The Power of Self-Awareness.
There are two types of people who study The Power of Self-Awareness: people who are already self-aware, and people who are self-aware but are still in the wrong place. One of the best ways to learn to be self-aware is to start with the first step in most self-awareness programs: identify your goals.
The first step is to get a clear picture of yourself. By that I mean a clear picture of your goals, of who you are, and what you want to accomplish. For most people the picture in their head is all the wrong stuff, but it is also often a very bad picture. It is not a snapshot of their current self-awareness.
Not all of us have a clear picture of ourselves. Some of us are stuck somewhere in the middle, having a vague sense of who we are and what we want to do but not actually knowing what that is.
In this article I’m going to talk about what a person needs before they can start making changes to their personal behavior. The first step in starting any sort of change is to be honest with yourself. If you don’t know who you are what’s wrong with you, or that you want to do the things you’re doing, you’re not going to be able to do change.
The first step to change is to be honest with yourself. When a person becomes uneducated about their own behaviors, they start to believe that changing them is going to be easy. They start to believe that they can change their own behaviors. When this happens, they start to believe that they can change their own lives. When this is happening, it can be very unhealthy. Because youve not taken responsibility for what you are, you start to believe that your actions will fix the problem.
So the first step to change is to have the courage to see what your actions have done to you. Instead of going on autopilot, you need to stop and think. You need to take responsibility for what you are and what you want to do.
And that takes courage. You have to be willing to face your own choices, to admit that they are wrong, and to start making them right. Because if you change your mind about what you want to do, you will have no control over what you do.
Yes, your actions will fix the problem. The problem is you are unwilling to see what you have done to yourself. It may sound corny, but the first step to fixing yourself is to start seeing what you’re doing to you. This is where the courage to change comes in. The second step is to admit that you have done something you are ashamed of. You may never admit it, but you have to. You are only human.
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