subject: Personal Development - Increasing Self-awareness [print this page] Have you ever taken time to seriously know yourself better? There are many reasons as to why personal development is linked with increasing one's self-awareness. Knowing oneself sure has a lot of benefits and enables an individual to be successful in his or her endeavors.
Among the things which a person needs to know about himself are his goals, strengths, and weaknesses. A person's goals make up what he believes to be his primary purpose in life. Goals should be consistent with one's purpose. Identifying specific short-term and long-term goals gives a person the ability to evaluate his or her own performance. Goals show the things that a person values the most, and people who are satisfied with their lives are those who are sure about what they want and are able to get it.
Knowing one's strengths and weaknesses contributes to the creation of one's plans and strategies that are designed to achieve goals. By knowing a person's strengths and weaknesses, he could engage himself in worthwhile activities where he could actually stand out, become successful and feel good about himself. There is more to life than achieving a sense of balance; the truth is that satisfaction comes in accepting the fact that there are things that one can do well and there are things others can simply do better. The key is in developing one's own strengths. It is better to specialize and become the best in one field, than become an unknown or mediocre participant in every single activity.
