Self awareness = self confidence
Self awareness journey : Day 1
What does it mean to understand yourself? It means acknowledging your weaknesses and your strengths. How many of us know how we think, learn, the way we perceive time, the way we manage energy,
How many of us know our most productive time of the day and when we need to stop and take a break?
How many of us know where are we right now, and where do we want to be in our work/career/goals/businesses? — well, I didn’t.
And by knowing, I mean acknowledging, a deep understanding of those things, not being afraid to admit it, and accepting it. If you still haven’t got the answers, that’s totally okay, that is why you’re here. We’re gonna find it along this journey together, and will hopefully have the confidence to answer them regardless of what the question will be.
Self-awareness isn’t one truth, it’s a delicate balance of two distinct, even competing, viewpoints. — Tasha Eurich
Now after understanding the importance of self-awareness, we need to work on our story and our mindset.
Have you ever gone through an awful experience and you wouldn’t wanna see anyone getting through that pain but at the same time it’s the moment when you had your breakthrough because you can’t take it anymore and just had to do it?
Can you remember what triggered you to have those breakthroughs, what made it possible, what made it a must, and how did your life change? Take the time to stop reading and think about it.
If you realize, life is always happening FOR you, and not TO you. And when you look back, you may rather be thankful for those painful days. Now, what if you change those awful stories into a blessing that triggered you to just step up and do it for yourself. It may be bitter medicine, but the patient needed it.
I’m gonna give you an example. Steve Jobs said that by the time he was fired from Apple, it freed him to the most creative period in his life. He made two successful companies during the next five years — NeXT and Pixar — and even married his wife. Apple bought NeXT and he found his way back to Apple. The technology they developed was at the heart of Apple’s renaissance and the rest is history.
Another example is my true story. I had a hard time during my high school days. I spent 3 years learning something I knew I wouldn’t wanna do in the future. That affects my personality too, I was drawing lines, closing myself, and didn’t want to open up to anyone. The pandemic just made it worst, since I had to prepare for my college entrance exam. I was always someone who needs somebody else to study with, and corona made my study even harder because I can’t meet anyone. Looking back, I wouldn’t wanna see anyone going the same path as I did. But those beautifully painful days, led me to a realization that I need to live my life without regrets. I started doing what I love and one of them is studying Korean. After that, I started going to a Korean class where I met this amazing mentor of mine. Today, I was able to find myself here writing this, in a journey of finding who I am, what do I value, and the rest will also be history.
You see, none of these things wouldn’t have happened if Steve Jobs wasn’t fired from a company he found, or if I took the right major in high school, or if the pandemic didn’t exist.
For things to get better, you need to get better. For things to change, you need to change. And it always starts with your mindset. Change your story, change your life. Change your mindset, change your life. It is not an easy process, and we will fail along the way. But if we don’t stop, and do it constantly enough, we might ride your ticket to success.
