Developing Self Awareness

Self awareness is the ability to perceive your own traits, feelings, and behaviors; in other words, to know yourself.

Awareness is the first step in the creation process. As you become more self aware, you better understand why you feel what you feel and why you behave as you behave. Otherwise, you continue to be “caught up” in your internal dramas and beliefs, letting unknown thought processes determine your feelings and actions.

As you come to recognize your personality, strengths, weaknesses, likes, and dislikes, you become more effective at communication and interpersonal relations, and you develop empathy for others.

I've put together articles on various topics useful in developing self awareness:

Creating Change with EFT
EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a psychological acupressure therapy you can use to create personal change by tapping on specified points along your energy meridians.

Creating a Personal Development Plan
Guidelines for creating a personal development plan that will help you achieve your potential.

Overcoming Procrastination
Why are you procrastinating? Tips for ending procrastination.

Using Affirmations
Affirmations are brief, positive statements developed to help you reprogram parts of your subconscious.

Developing a Great Attitude
Much of your success is determined by your attitude.

Using Creative Thinking
Creative thinking focuses on exploring ideas, generating possibilities, and looking for many right answers.

Using Creative Visualization
Creative visualization is the art of using mental energy to transform and improve your life.

Becoming a Person of Integrity
Integrity is the quality that locks in your values and causes you to live consistent with them.

Tapping into Your Intuition
Intuition accesses an inner guidance that knows the way.

The Power of Journaling
Journaling captures your thoughts and feelings on paper, letting you work with your thoughts in new ways.

Secrets of Meditation and Tips for Better Meditation
Insights into the meditation process. Success in meditating is not the result of any one single factor but depends on sustained and systematic effort over time. Learn a Chakra Meditation.

Spiritual Growth Tips
Spiritual growth is the process of inner awakening, and becoming conscious of our inner being.

How to Make "Self-Improvement" Work Every Time!

Guide to Self Improvement Ebooks

Resources for Self Awareness and Self Help Skills

Tired of all the goal-setting, visualizations, and affirmations? The DNA of Success by Jack Zufelt may be what you are looking for. Zufelt believes that goal setting not only does NOT work but it's negative and self-destructive for you.