Daily Dose Of Self-Assessment And Reflection
You do not just live your life the way you like in an "anyhow" manner and do what you like simply because you feel you can do it. At the end of the day, will such action be worth it? Well, you may not know until you have reflected on yourself and taken an assessment of your life. This is why self-reflection and self-assessment is very important and should be done daily in order to make for personal growth. If you do not know why something has happened or why something has refused to happen, you may not be able to make the required changes.
To reflect on yourself simple means to assess yourself in relation to your thoughts, actions, character, attitude, behaviour, etc, in a very objective manner, to know if you are on the right track. I have come to realise that if you take time to look at the way you do things and assess yourself based on it, it will help you to make better decisions. One of the major reasons why people continue in their errors is because they do not even know they are progressing in errors. How will you know that what you are doing is wrong if you have to considered the outcome, your intentions, the effects, the consequences, etc. All these come as a result of self-assessment.
A daily practice of assessing oneself is what will make you to pause a while even in the midst of your busyness to consider how your life is going. Each day you wake up and live, it should be an addition to you. In fact, each passing day should leave you better than the previous. So if it is not happening, then you need to take out time for personal introspection and evaluation. You need to evaluate yourself from time to time so as to know the progress you are making in life. This is the same reason that after you have received lectures in the school for a semester, at the end, you will be given an exam so as to evaluate if you have learnt anything. In the same way, you need to constantly evaluate yourself to know if you are doing well in your actions, thoughts, etc.
One of the things that happens when you evaluate yourself is that you will become more aware of your environment. For you to effectively know where you are, you have to know who you are. You may be doing something in a wrong way for long and you may think that it is the right way. But after considering the effects, consequences, and outcome of success actions, you will understand that there is a need to change. The is why I believe that the truth which someone tells their own self sincerely is among the greatest truths that will be told to them.
One of the benefits of self-assessment and reflection is that it enhances your attitude of gratitude. If you think that things are not working for you, just take a moment to think well and then reflect on yourself and on life, you will see that you are blessed. When you take a look at all you have achieved so far, even if you are still expectant of other successes, you will see reasons for gratitude. It only takes a sincere reflection for you to see that there are many good things about life that is worth celebrating instead of focusing only on what you think is not working. Intense self-evaluation will definitely lead in-depth appreciation and gratitude.
The last benefit of daily assessing yourself and of course, seeing life from a more positive perspective, is that it will lead to more happiness. The more you see that you are doing well, the happier you will become. Do not allow what others think or their opinion about life to make you to look down on yourself. After all, everyone has their own different track and as such, what applies to them may not also apply to you. Remember that you are in this world as an individual, so you should focus on your own life and you will see how beautiful it is.
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