CONQUER YOURSELF
The process of self-awareness involves asking yourself some very difficult - but important - questions . For example :
• Socially speaking , how do you carry yourself ?
• What wrongs do you do ?
• What are your weaknesses and strengths ?
• What is it in you that hurts people ?
• What is it in you that soothes people ?
• What is it that hurts your feelings ?
• What is the motivation in your life ?
Benefits of self-awareness include being able to :
• Successfully identify what motivates you and what makes you happy
• Recognise your vulnerabilities and weaknesses ; effectively cope with them
• Turn your weaknesses into your strengths
• Empathise with others and see from their points of view
• Manage your negative emotions and anxiety
• Break unhealthy habits
• Improve your relationship with those around you
• Be confident and deal with failure effectively
• Avoid letting the past haunt you
• Recognise your own prejudices
• Avoid developing inferiority and superiority complexes
• Be adaptable
• Have a better appreciation of life and those around you
• See yourself , your abilities and calibre in the mirror of the truth
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