I typically start journaling in the morning and finish it up at night, adding insights as they come to me throughout the day. First thing yesterday morning, I wrote at the top of the page a statement that I meant to immediately expand on,
To undergo self-development, you must have self-awareness.
Later that morning, I wrote about some things unrelated to the topic I had chosen, and then the whole day was incredibly busy in these huge coaching groups that I assist with. The groups were finishing up multiple weeks of a deep dive into their personal results of various psychometric assessments that they had taken, and at the very end of many hours of this conversation with 180 people, someone says in the last 10 minutes, “With this knowledge of myself, now I can improve myself in real and meaningful ways.”
This alone is not noteworthy — I am a transformational coach who spent the day neck-deep in developmental coaching — it was bound to come up. Maybe it is actually surprising that I didn’t notice it more throughout my day.
But last night, to wind down, my hubby and I sat down to watch TV — “The Book of Boba Fett” — and [not really a spoiler] the Mandalorian Armorer says, “Persistence without insight will lead to the same outcome.”
The importance of knowledge/insight/awareness to positive change is so fundamental that I cannot escape it even in a galaxy far, far away. 🌟