This document discusses self-awareness and its importance for personal development and career choice. It defines self-awareness as understanding your own personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, and emotions. Having self-awareness allows you to understand how others perceive you and to take control of your behavior. The document outlines key areas for self-awareness like personality, values, habits, needs, and emotions. It suggests that self-awareness helps with compatible career choices, performance, and satisfaction. Tips for improving self-awareness include focusing on strengths, not comparing yourself, and overcoming fear of failure.

1. SELF AWARENESS: THE
KEY TO PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT

3. What is Self Awareness?
• Self-awareness (sometimes also referred to as self-
knowledge or introspection) is about
understanding your own needs, desires, failings,
habits, and everything else that makes you tick.
• The more you know about yourself, the better you
are at adapting life changes that suit your needs.

4. • Self Awareness is having a clear perception of your
personality, including strengths, weaknesses,
thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions.
• Self Awareness allows you to understand other
people, how they perceive you, your attitude and
your responses to them in the moment.
What is Self Awareness?

5. • Self awareness is the first step in creating what you want and
mastering your life. Where you focus your attention, your
emotions, reactions, personality and behavior determine where
you go in life.
• Having self awareness allows you to see where your thoughts
and emotions are taking you. It also allows you to take control
of your emotions, behavior, and personality so you can make
changes you want.

6. Why Self Awareness?
• EVERYBODY IS A GENIUS

7. Why Self Awareness?
• Essentially, the more you pay attention to your emotions and
how you work, the better you'll understand why you do the
things you do. The more you know about your own habits, the
easier it is to improve on those habits.
• People with a high degree of social intelligence know
themselves, have the ability to build and maintain strong
mutually beneficial relationships with others, and are able to
resolve conflict in a positive manner.

8. Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)
• Extraversion (E) – Introversion (I)
• Sensing (S) – Intuiting (N)
• Thinking (T) – Feeling (F)
• Judging (J) – Perceiving (P)

9. Self Awareness and Career
Development
• Studies have shown that individuals who are self-
aware make more compatible career choices,
perform better and longer in their employment
positions, and derive more satisfaction from work.
• Choosing a career that is compatible with your
interests and motivations helps you find greater
satisfaction in your work.

10. Role of Self Awareness on our
Career Choice
• Knowing your strengths and weaknesses. Self-
awareness helps you exploit your strengths and cope
with your weaknesses. Without self-awareness, you
cannot understand your strengths and weakness,
your “super powers” versus your “kryptonite.”

11. • Skill development. Improvement projects should
normally begin with an assessment of the gap
between the current situation and the desired future
situation. Having an accurate sense of who you are
helps you decide what you should do to
improve. Often, self-awareness will reveal a skills
gap that you want to work on.

12. • Needs and Emotional Gratification. Maslow and other scholars
have identified a variety of psychological needs that drive our
behaviors such as needs for esteem, affection, belongingness,
achievement, self-actualization, power and control.
• By applying our skills to our chosen career, we derive
gratification or happiness.

13. Key Areas for Self-Awareness
• Personality. We don't normally change our personalities,
values and needs based on what we learn about ourselves. But,
an understanding of our personalities can help us find situations
in which we will thrive, and help us avoid situations in which
we will experience too much stress.
• For instance, if you are highly introverted, you should either
learn skills to cope with the demands of a sales position that
requires extravert-type behavior patterns, or you should find a
position that is more compatible with your personality

14. Key Areas for Self-Awareness
• Values. It's important that we each know and focus on our
personal values.
• During the workday, so many problems and opportunities arise
that our lists of "things to do" can easily exceed the time we
have to do them.
• When we focus on our values, we are more likely to
accomplish what we consider most important.

15. Key Areas for Self-Awareness
• Habits. Our habits are the behaviors that we repeat
routinely and often automatically.
• Although we would like to possess the habits that
help us interact effectively with and manage others,
we can probably all identify at least one of our habits
that decreases our effectiveness.

16. Key Areas for Self-Awareness
• Needs. One of the advantages of knowing which
needs exert the strongest influence on our own
behaviors is the ability to understand how they affect
our interpersonal relationships.

17. Key Areas for Self-Awareness
• Emotions. Emotional self-awareness has become a
hot topic of discussion recently because it's one of
the five facets of emotional
intelligence. Understanding your own feelings, what
causes them, and how they impact your thoughts and
actions is emotional self-awareness.

18. Self Awareness Tips for Personal
Development
• Be Grateful & Recognize Your Worth. Focus on what you
already have. Think about how others benefit from what you
do. If you improve yourself, those benefits will increase. Your
personal development is for others as well as for you.
• Give up comparing yourself to others. You are unique, with
your own special power, talents, and gifts. There is no one else
in the world just like you!

19. Self Awareness Tips for Personal
Development
• Get over your fear of failure. Whatever your desire
or need is, there is a market for it and people are
waiting for you.
• Who do you admire most? If you are struggling to
notice where your seeds of potential need to be
sown, just look around you for people you admire
and respect. If you admire someone who is
compassionate or incredibly kind for instance, it is
likely that you see something in them that is also in
you.

20. Self Awareness Tips for Personal
Development
• Admit your imperfections. Focus on your strengths,
and manage your weaknesses.
• You are worthy of success and happiness