Avoid the Negative Personal Awareness!

The pos­i­tive per­sonal aware­ness leads us to per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity by direct­ing pos­i­tive energy to how we think.  Empow­er­ing our minds that every­thing is “do-able” and “man­age­able”.  On the other hand, the neg­a­tive per­sonal aware­ness encloses us in a neg­a­tive whirlpool of thoughts.  Lim­it­ing the poten­tial within us or even mis­lead­ing us to the wrong objec­tives, fur­ther away from achiev­ing per­sonal productivity.

Recall back to our com­bi­na­tion from the per­sonal aware­ness quad­rants?  Pes­simism and hope­less­ness are what we want to avoid.

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” – Pessimism
4. “I do not know what I can do” & “I do not know what I can­not do” – Hopeless

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

Pic­ture this, your boss believes that you are a team lead poten­tial and assigns you man­age­ment tasks.  He is fully con­fi­dent of your abil­ity to assume the posi­tion.  How­ever, you on the other hand feel that you are not up to mark to this new title and rejected it. In the end, your boss gets annoyed after per­sis­tence offer­ing and pro­moted some­body else.  Sounds familiar?

These indi­vid­u­als can be some­times annoy­ing to the bosses or co-workers.   The exter­nal par­ties know you are up to mark.  But you insist you are inca­pable, over­see­ing what you really are wor­thy of.  The exact nature of “I do not know what I can do”.  Fur­ther to that, “I know what I can­not do” rein­forces the unwor­thi­ness of the indi­vid­ual.  How can we achieve per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity with such neg­a­tive mind set?

There is still one good thing about these indi­vid­u­als.  They have untapped poten­tials that is wait­ing for the right time to be unleashed.  There­fore, be patient with them as they are usu­ally change resis­tant too.

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

Lost sheep, lack of self-worth and hope­less are good words to define such indi­vid­u­als. This is an extreme case where we really want to get out of.  You will def­i­nitely have met one of this peo­ple in your life be it is at work or life.   They do not know what they can do, directed by “I do not know what I can do”.  “I do not know what I can­not do” fur­ther makes them blinded by such thoughts.

With such hope­less­ness, how can one achieve per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity when there is so much empti­ness to fill?  The lack of self-worth cre­ates a sit­u­a­tion where the indi­vid­ual will con­tinue to indulge in his neg­a­tive thoughts in a down­ward spi­ral man­ner.  Per­sonal pro­duc­tiv­ity will never be achieved with the indi­vid­ual in a con­stant mode of negativism.

We hope you do not fall into the neg­a­tive per­sonal aware­ness com­bi­na­tion.  If you do, all hope is not lost.  The least we start of is to recog­nise them.  Every­thing has a start­ing point and there are ways to cor­rect them and pro­ceed with the pos­i­tive per­sonal awareness.

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