SELF-AWARENESS
SELF-AWARENESS Having a clear perception of your personality, including strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions.
WHO AM I?
To have selfawareness Where you focus your attention, your emotions, reactions, personality and behaviour determine where you go in life.
Having a clear understanding of your thought and, behaviour patterns helps you understand other people. This ability to empathize facilitates better personal and professional relationships.
VALUES
Values
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Things that you believe are important in the way
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They determine your priorities, and, deep down, they're probably the measures you use to tell if your life is turning out the way you want it to.
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When the things that you do and the way you behave match your values, life is usually good – you're satisfied and content.
you live and work.
But when these don't align with your personal values, that's when things feel... wrong. This can be a real source of unhappiness.
How values help us?
• Discover what is truly important to you.
• Good decision making • Happiness
DEFINING YOUR VALUES
1. Identify the times when you were happiest
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What were you doing?
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Were you with other people? Who?
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What other factors contributed to your happiness?
2. Identify the times when you were most proud
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Why were you proud?
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Did other people share your pride? Who?
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What other factors contributed to your feelings of pride?
3. Identify the times when you were most fulfilled and satisfied
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What need or desire was fulfilled?
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How and why did the experience give your life meaning?
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What other factors contributed to your feelings of fulfilment?
4. Determine your top values, based on your experiences of happiness, pride, and fulfilment
Why is each experience truly important and memorable?
Accountability Accuracy Achievement Adventurousness Altruism Ambition Assertiveness Balance Being the best Belonging Boldness Calmness Carefulness Challenge Cheerfulness Clear-mindedness Commitment Community Compassion Competitiveness Consistency
Contentment Efficiency Continuous Improvement Elegance Contribution Empathy Control Enjoyment Cooperation Enthusiasm Correctness Equality Courtesy Excellence Creativity Excitement Curiosity Expertise Decisiveness Exploration Democracy Expressiveness Dependability Fidelity Determination Fitness Devoutness Fluency Diligence Focus Discipline Freedom Discretion Fun Diversity Generosity Dynamism Goodness Economy Grace Effectiveness Growth
Happiness Hard Work Health Helping Society Holiness Honesty Honour Humility Independence Ingenuity Inner Harmony Inquisitiveness Insightfulness Intelligence Intellectual Status Intuition Joy Justice Leadership Legacy Love
Obedience Openness Order Originality Patriotism Perfection Piety Positivity Practicality Preparedness Professionalism Prudence Quality-orientation Reliability Resourcefulness Restraint Results-oriented Rigor Security Self-actualization Self-control
Selflessness Self-reliance Sensitivity Serenity Service Shrewdness Simplicity Soundness Speed Spontaneity Stability Strategic Strength Structure Success Support Teamwork Temperance Thankfulness Thoroughness Thoughtfulness
Trustworthiness Truth-seeking Understanding Uniqueness Unity Usefulness Vision Vitality
Are people rational or irrational?
Irrational
SELF-AWARENESS