150+ Questions for Self-Awareness: Get the Clarity You Need to Live Your Best Life... Starting Now!

By Dana Morningstar

The quality of your life depends largely on the degree of self-awareness that you have. If your life isn't running as smoothly as you'd like, then perhaps taking a few steps back and asking yourself some thought-provoking questions will help. This book includes over 150 questions organized by different facets of your life: personal, emotional, p

• Language: English
• Publisher: Morningstar Media
• Release date: Jul 16, 2019
• ISBN: 9781953420060

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Introduction

What is self-awareness, and why is it so important?

Self-awareness is the conscious knowledge of our inner world of thoughts, opinions, motives, preferences, character, likes, dislikes, feelings, wants, and needs. The result of this awareness is the ability to truly know who we are, what we like, what we dislike, what is nourishing, what is draining, and when something causes us emotional or physical pain. Two large parts of self-awareness include emotional literacy and emotional intelligence. Emotional literacy involves knowing how we feel, and emotional intelligence is the ability to navigate our emotions, and the emotional environment of others. In short, knowing how we feel is important, but knowing what to do with those feelings is equally important. It’s sort of like the saying goes about the difference between knowledge and wisdom: knowledge is knowing that tomatoes are a fruit, but wisdom is knowing not to put them in a fruit salad.

The importance of self-awareness is perhaps best understood as the GPS system that helps guide us along the journey of life. Without self-awareness, we can still start the car, and use the gas pedal and brakes, but we have no idea as to where we are going. Driving a car without knowing where we are going, much like living life without self-awareness will lead to us continually being off track, and if we did get to our destination, then it was out of sheer luck.

We need a healthy level of self-awareness to make decisions that are in alignment with who we are, and we need a healthy level of emotional intelligence to express ourselves and relate to others appropriately. Without this level of insight, we will continually struggle with trusting our judgment and decisions, and instead, look towards others to tell us what to do, who we are, and how we feel. The result of assuming others’ views of us are correct is