Becoming More Aware Of Your Awareness

Perhaps the most critical element to living the incredible, impactful, fulfilling life you know you’re capable of is awareness.

And that's because our lives are shaped by the actions we take. Consciously and unconsciously, we do things that interact with the world and thus, shape it. 

Undesirable results in your health, finances, and relationships are the byproduct of making poor choices or failing to make good ones. Or similarly you make positive shifts to your life when you take new, aligned, empowered actions that open up new possibilities and prime the road to success.

None of us want suffering, hardship, or disappointment in our lives - yet that’s what many of us experience. And it’s simply because we aren’t doing things that create improved and more favorable realities.

Our lives have perfectly calibrated to the types and levels of the actions we take.

This is where awareness comes in. Many of us live in deep cycles of action or inaction that continue to manifest into the same unwanted results. We stay stuck in those cycles for far too long because we don’t have the awareness to know what we’re doing to cause it. 

But with awareness you’re given the opportunity to choose something else. You can see what you’ve been blind to, understand the causes that create the effect, and disrupt the pattern by deciding to do something different. 

And the thing about awareness is - it’s always available to us. When we pause to reflect, diagnose, pick apart, and understand, we discover so many details that were hiding in plain sight. They were always there, perfectly explaining the shortcomings or missed opportunities you’ve been experiencing.

This is one of the reasons why cultivating more awareness in your life is among the most recommended practices in personal development. If we don’t have it, we can’t do anything to change it, and we’re at the mercy of how things are. But with it, we are empowered to shape our lives how we want them.

With that, the work is never done. As humans we are designed with limited awareness. We only have 5 senses to experience the world and one perspective that we see the world through. Embracing that truth is my encouragement to you today - become more aware of your limited awareness.

Here are a few ideas for how to do that: 

What about your beliefs and worldviews are causing you to interpret a situation a certain way?

What tendencies and preferences are affecting the way you show up to things?

What boundary is getting crossed, or intention isn’t getting fulfilled, that is causing you to tolerate a version of life that’s short of what you see for yourself?

With awareness you can detect the pattern and then breakthrough it to create something better.