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Self awareness

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Self awareness is simply being conscious of your strengths while acknowledging what you still have yet to learn. Includes admitting when you don't have the answers and owning up to mistakes, which can sometimes be painful. But we also cannot deny the fact that whether we acknowledge our weaknesses or not, everyone still sees them. Self awareness is extremely challenging as it is difficult to see in you what others see so easily. To gain more insights into this, there are four type of self. Open self: What others know about you and which you know too; Blind self: What others see about you which you can't see; Hidden self: What others don't know about you, but you do aka ur secrets. Unknown self : What others don't know about you and neither do you. We all have blind spots and if we can learn what they are, we become better leaders. Therefore knowing more of your Open self and shrinking our Blind self and Unknown self - enabling us to be in control of yourself.

Smile

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The pressure that I have to take for the past two weeks has made me feel so exhausted. You'll be wondering whether you can keep up or not. The load is too much and you feel like there's no enough time. (My supervisor is out of town and I have to kinda cover for him)-Fuh...plus all the mistakes that I have made, makes me wondering what will happen next..Makes me realize what's going on here?..What went wrong?..Can I keep up with the fast-paced environment where mistakes are not tolerable?..I need a plan..One considerate colleague tell me :- Don't be sad, if you sad you won't be smiling and it's a pity.I just smile back to him.. I'm not a person who likes to fake a smile. That's why when I see a fake smile, I wonder why do they even bother to smile when we can see it is fake... We meet a lot of people but the worst kind of people is the one who never understands you. Somebody who simply just make their own assumptions about us without trying to consider o