This document outlines 5 steps to developing self-awareness: 1. Understand that you are unique and have value to offer. 2. Realize that you already possess fundamental skills for success and should start where you are. 3. View negative past experiences as events that can provide lessons rather than personalizing them. 4. Create internal motivation to push past failures through perseverance and a belief that success is possible. 5. Take action despite fear, as taking action is the only way to achieve results and facing fears can provide advantages.

1. 5 STEPS TO SELF AWARENESS
“A man with Financial Education is not good enough, neither is one with Vocational Education
nor Formal Education, a man with self awareness is good enough”
I think you are asking the same question that I am trying to decipher, from this quote. Why is
self-awareness so important that a man with it can easily access the other forms of training or
education, here is why.
1. Understand that you are ONE
Being ONE means you have a healthy image of yourself, that you are not aware of any
competition in your own reality that you are better than an average individual, that you
are one of a kind and you are here for a reason. I am far from psyching you up, if you see
yourself this way, you eventually become one.
2. That you possess the fundamental skill for success
Inasmuch as we understand the importance of self-education, we need to know that
success comes from a mix of skill. Most people get into the trouble of intending to
acquire all the skills they need before they start, but that is in reverse. Start where you
are, with what you have is the right way to go. As you go along, your ability to learn from
experience increases.
3. Bad experiences are events
A lot of people have been victims of abuse at home by their parent or guardian, place of
work by their Boss, and because of our fragile emotion, it is easier and becomes so
hurtful that we regurgitate the experience, personalize the event and worst of all, and
forget the lessons. That you have been cheated or taken advantage of is a reality, that
your person remains unaffected is a virtue that subdues the event. Always try to
differentiate what the reality of the event from your perception.
4. Create a self motivator
We cannot avoid blockades or failures, however something helps us to walk past them
and it is our reason for starting up, it is a guarantee that we would get knocked down,
staying down or standing up is a choice.. A lot of successful people at the conception of
folding up realize their lucky break was just by the corner. They couldn’t explain what
kept them, however our inner conversation of “it is not over” attitude, keeps us waiting.
In waiting, we stand, become stronger, take shots again, and that is all we need to do to
surmount the seemingly impossible.

2. 5. Action cures fear
Most people are not going to get what they want in life, wishful thinking does not
translate into results, only action gives the expected reaction in Physics; same is with
cause and effect. Fear will always be there, do the thing knowing that the worse isn’t here
to stay but temporary. Do something that frightens you in your pursuit. Stretch across
boundaries and fear in fact becomes your driving force that places you at a position of
advantage.
Emmanuel Otori is a Public Speaker, Life Coach and Trainer on Leadership,
Business and Management.
Email: emmanuelotori@zoho.com