{"id":616,"date":"2010-01-14T15:16:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T20:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/?p=616"},"modified":"2015-12-29T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T16:17:29","slug":"self-mastery-tip-enhance-your-awarenessattentionmindfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/616\/self-mastery-tip-enhance-your-awarenessattentionmindfulness","title":{"rendered":"Self-Mastery Tip: Enhance Your Awareness\/Attention\/&#8221;Mindfulness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being more aware of what is happening within oneself, others and the surrounding environment can have a great impact on Self-Mastery.\u00a0 The more you know about what influences you and how it does so, the more influence you will gain over your own thoughts, feelings and behaviors.\u00a0 Blocks to personal and professional growth are much easier to overcome when we experience more awareness of ourselves, others and the environments in which we live and work.<\/p>\n<p>There are many ways in which to enhance awareness, including the following:<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Noticing thoughts, feelings and behaviors that you appreciate and those that you do not. <\/strong>Sometimes self-awareness is blocked by a desire to &#8220;not have&#8221; certain experiences.\u00a0 Many change experts agree that the first step in changing certain aspects of ourselves or our experience is to be aware of them (or &#8220;own them&#8221;).\u00a0\u00a0We can enhance such awareness by simply noticing aspects of\u00a0ourselves that we you do not want to own or acknowledge, such as being short-tempered from time to time, having a large ego or simply struggling to take accountability when we make mistakes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Journaling about your thoughts, feelings and behaviors.<\/strong> People are often surprised at how much impact writing or talking about themselves can have on awareness.\u00a0\u00a0Even writing about just a few genuine\u00a0thoughts and feelings in relation to 1-2 of the most impactful experiences of the day can help us become more aware of what is happening inside and outside of ourselves.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Participating in awareness-enhancing exercises.<\/strong> There are many experiences that help people becomes more aware of what is happening within them, with others and in their environment.\u00a0 Sign up for an interesting course, read a book by a credible author and\/or talk with someone who helps you expand your awareness regularly.\u00a0 Making a commitment to expand our awareness on a regular basis can bring about truly amazing results if we stick with this commitment over the long haul.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>NOTE TO THOSE USING THE MISSION FULFILLMENT SYSTEM:<\/strong> You can facilitate your awareness by adding a new Objective to your system by using the &#8220;Add New Item&#8221; link (for example, &#8220;Increase my awareness&#8221;).\u00a0 You can then develop a SMART Goal related to that new Objective by using the &#8220;Add Subitem&#8221; link to the far right of the new Objective (for example, &#8220;Make a list of\u00a012 experiences that could enhance my self-awareness in meaningful ways and participate in one per month.&#8221;).<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>FOR THOSE WHO ARE NOT ON THE MISSION FULFILLMENT SYSTEM: <\/strong><a href=\"..\/..\/tracking_execution.php\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to for more information and <a href=\"..\/..\/contact.php\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> to sign up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>FINAL NOTE:<\/strong> If you were linked to this article by a video or email, please return to that link and proceed with any other instructions that you deem helpful.\u00a0\u00a0For more Execution Excellence tips and tools visit our site at: <a href=\"..\/..\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.excellenceuniversity.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being more aware of what is happening within oneself, others and the surrounding environment can have a great impact on Self-Mastery.\u00a0 The more you know about what influences you and how it does so, the more influence you will gain over your own thoughts, feelings and behaviors.\u00a0 Blocks to personal and professional growth are much [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":619,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}