Knowing yourself………..

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Knowing Yourself

The last couple of years have been quite extraordinary for me.  Things have been stressful (they still are): things have changed significantly (they do that!) but the most important aspect of the whole experience is that I have had to do a lot of thinking.  I’ve been forced to consider a number of really important questions:

• What do I want (to achieve)?
• What are the things that are really important to me? … and why?
• What drives me … really?
• Why do I do what I do?

One of things that I have come to realise is that these questions are contextual – that is – they can be applied to any area of our lives.  The answers we get to each of the above questions will change depending on whether they are applied personally, (to ourselves or to our relationships) or professionally, to ourselves at work.  Exploring these questions as an individual, team or organisation can be equally beneficial.

In applying these questions to myself, I have come to understand Who I Am which has enabled me to focus on those things that I really enjoy and not worry so much about those things that detract from what I want out of life.

Practically every religious and spiritual teaching has as one of its core teachings: “Know Thyself” as it is recognised as being the root of personal fulfilment.  The significance applied to the concept of Emotional Intelligence recognises that high performance starts with Self Awareness …