Saturday, September 02, 2006

Star Reachers

Self Understanding

Throughout his book, The Art of Happiness At Work, His Holiness, The Dalai Lama, has stressed the importance of our attitude as a key factor in shaping our satisfaction at work. He now shifts his attention to yet another key factor - self-awareness and self-understanding. A lot of reasearch has been done into the reasons why some people are happy at work and others are not. The findings all point to self-understanding and self-awareness as a key principle to achieving more satisfaction at work.

You can become more self-aware or understand yourself by:

1. Understanding that there are many levels of self-awareness or self-understanding.
2. Having a sense of self that is grounded in reality will help you to increase your self-awareness and understanding.
3. Be aware that there is an initmate connection between how we see ourselves and how we tend to relate to others and the world.
4. How we see ourselves also affects how we tend to react to a given situation.
5. Identify your strengths and "special talents or gifts" and make a conscious effort to use them at work. When you do so, it will reshape your attitude and help you to discover a higher purpose or meaning to your work.
6. Stubbornness, excessive pride, arrogance, an excessive low opinion of self, and an agitated state of mind are all obstacles for greater self-understanding and awareness.

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