Are You at the Positive Side of Personal Awareness?

Know­ing your­self is impor­tant.  Hav­ing known that per­sonal aware­ness, being the Me fac­tor con­tributes to per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity, now let’s take a deeper a look at why per­sonal aware­ness is a key fac­tor to per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity.  We begin with the pos­i­tive per­sonal aware­ness com­bi­na­tion from what we men­tioned in Boost­ing Your Per­sonal Aware­ness by Know­ing Your­self.    Recall the four per­sonal aware­ness quad­rants? “I know what I can do”, “I know what I can­not do”, “I do not know what I can do” and “I do not know what I can­not do”?

Mix­ing and match­ing them, you get the fol­low­ing combination.

1. “I know what I can do” & “I know what I can­not do” – Certainty
2. “I know what I can do” & “I do not know what I can­not do” – Boldness
3. “I know what I can­not do” & “I do not know what I can do” – Pessimistic
4. “I do know what I can do” & “I do not know what I can­not do” – Hopeless

Let us look at the com­bi­na­tions of pos­i­tive awareness.

“I know what I can do” & “I know what I can­not do”

Given a task, the indi­vid­ual will plan out what to do base on his abil­i­ties and expe­ri­ences.  He knows how to “get there”.  He is cer­tain of the out­come.  This is defined by “I know what I can do”.  Fur­ther to that, he draws the lim­its that he is sup­posed to work in.  This is defined by “I know what I can­not do”.  Know­ing what he can­not do, he knows that he needs to be resource­ful in order to get the piece of work done.  It may be through search­ing through the net­work of names he has or tar­geted top­ics in his research.

This is ideal in get­ting work done.  He knows how to man­age.  The cir­cum­stance he wants to be in that will be advan­ta­geous to him.  The knowl­edge of the cer­tainty out­come will get him com­mit­ting to sub-tasks which even­tu­ally lead to the com­ple­tion of the main task.  Per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity achieved at a mod­est level.

“I know what I can do” & “I do not know what I can­not do”

You will have at least one of these indi­vid­u­als in your life. This indi­vid­ual is bold and dar­ing.   He is a for­ward dri­ven per­son with hind­sight of his past expe­ri­ences.  Dic­tated by “I know what I can do”.  He knows he CAN do it.  He knows he can suc­ceed and will not fail.  He does not allow lim­its to be drawn around his given task.  With­out the aware­ness of “I do not know what I can­not do” he do not know where his lim­its are. He only con­sid­ers obsta­cles as a chal­lenge to bring him for­ward to his next goal.

This is ideal in excelling from the aver­age.  The sky’s the limit.  He only wants “win”.  The bold­ness and atti­tude will allow him to over­come all obsta­cles and even­tu­ally lead him to excel in his field of work.  Per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity achieved at the peak level.

Both are pos­i­tive com­bi­na­tion of per­sonal aware­ness.  The indi­vid­u­als of both com­bi­na­tion have one thing in com­mon, pos­i­tive think­ing.  They are for­ward look­ing and cer­tain of their out­come.  They do not say “no”.  Per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity begins with Me say­ing “yes”.  Their think­ing mech­a­nism only per­mits the suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of the task (say­ing to “yes”).    With this “yes” atti­tude, the indi­vid­ual is able to over­come obsta­cles and achieve their goals (com­ple­tion of tasks), result­ing in pro­duc­tiv­ity, a per­sonal one.

Do you have any resem­blances of the pos­i­tive per­sonal awareness?

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