Monday, 25 January 2016

FRESH START MENTALLY: Self-awareness

Welcome back Viphilus*

My final post for our fresh-start month is about looking into our mind and becoming aware of what we see.

I have already written quite a bit about this last year and I encourage you to take a look at (perhaps again) my posts on March 23 and November 2 if you desire something more. Both of those posts are actually more comprehensive than what I’m going to do here today. Today I’m keeping it incredibly simple. All I’m suggesting is that you ask yourself five (5) deeply personal questions … but spend as much time as humanly possible on doing the research about yourself to find the answers. In the end, the more you learn, the more transformative it will be for you.

The questions are alarmingly innocuous and, well …. dis-alarming. But very wise people have literally recreated themselves when they have used these questions as powerful tools. With each question I have included a corollary question to deepen your sense of why the question might be important to you.

In your fresh-start for 2016, try taking them seriously. Ready?  OK, here we go. 


1.    What would you do if you weren’t afraid? (is the life you are living worth what you are giving up to have it?)

2.    What/who is at your centre? (what is the reason why you do what you do)?

3.    What’s the best day that you have had at work in the last 6-12 months and what made it so good (do you know how to repeat it)?

4.    What is your best practice for recovering and even building personal energy (and is it actually working for you?)

5.    If your personal beliefs, principles and convictions were suddenly declared by society to be illegal, would there be enough evidence to convict you, based on your actions alone? (do your principles and convictions serve as a personal gyroscope for your behaviour?)

None of those questions are my invention. I am sharing them with you because they were some of the key questions presented to me which helped spawn my rebirth as an engaged human being 10-12 years ago.

OK that’s it Viphilus … see you next month as I begin looking at the core truths behind Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits.

I hope to see you back next Monday.

Blessings,

Your friend, Omega Man



* Viphilus means, "lover of life"

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