“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” ― Abraham Maslow
Our awareness is truly the key to greatness. It is our awareness more than our effort that gets the results. Awareness is the key ingredient to success. If you have it, develop it further; If you lack it, seek it.
Are you aware of how much of your time, in the twenty-four hours, do you deliberately spend just with yourself?
Do things that you do in the twenty-four hours really advance your course and lead to ideal self?
Are you aware of what you really need and what you need to sacrifice for your dreams to come true? Knowing what you must give up to achieve your dreams is already half the journey towards achieving them.
If, however, your answer to these above questions is NO! Then, you have some serious homework to do and very quickly.
Before you can work so hard on things, you firstly need to work on yourself by gaining self-awareness, this is getting the basics right. Self-awareness won’t stop you from making mistakes, but it will allow you to learn from them. Self-awareness allows you to step out of your mind and observe it in action.
If you lack self-awareness, you can’t change. Why should you? As far as you are concerned, you are doing everything right.
There’s really no shame in not knowing; the shame, however, lies in not finding out. Reading books, attending workshops and classes as well as investing in a professional coach and mentor will help you see critical things you’ve long been blinded to. The world has long been waiting for you, now it’s your time to shine!
Veli Ndaba is a leadership and Insightful Speaker, Life-Coach and Neuro- Linguistic Programming Practitioner, Author of three books (You Are Born to Win, Your Dream is Calling You and SWITCH ON!), Newspaper Columnist and Entrepreneur. To book him to help you and your team unleash your greatness, contact him on veli@velindaba.com, www.velindaba.com and 083 304 9773