TABLE OF CONTENT
- What is self-reflection?
- Why is self-reflection crucial for personal development?
- How to make self-reflection a part of your practice?
What is self-reflection?
We can call ‘self-reflection’ the mirror of our mind, which creates our crystal-clear image and gives detailed explanations about us. Through self-reflection, we can find out our strengths – weaknesses, our skills, what our problems and solutions are, what we have achieved or what we can achieve in the future, whether we are happy or sad, our likes and dislikes, etc. Only self-reflection can guide you in the right direction of personal development.
Why is self-reflection is crucial?
Just as we need a competent and impartial judge to run the judiciary and get justice, so we need such a judge for personal development in our lives. But the problem is that no one from outside can judge this impartially, because everyone has differences of mind, thought process, perception, beliefs, values, and physiological state, so the personal internal representation of an event at any given moment is bound to vary person to person.
It is neither possible for an outsider to understand fully what is going on in your mind and how you are thinking, nor is it possible to judge correctly. So the only impartial judge in your life is a self-reflection that will never do any injustice. The importance of self-reflection is immense to make you aware of whether you are on the right path to fulfill your goal, what are your good qualities and what are your bad qualities.
You can’t focus on personal development until you understand where you are now, how far you have come, what skills you have, and what you have done well.
Self-reflection helps you to identify what skills you need to develop, in which areas you need to develop more in your life; you can just understand whether your focus is on the right goals, and how much confidence you have.
This will help you to understand more if you are procrastinating unnecessarily, and how much persistence you need to have. Through self-reflection, you can understand whether your behavior and your actions are centered on personal development or just the opposite. Without self-reflection one cannot organize one’s thoughts, actions and self-control will never be possible.
Only self-reflection can judge perfectly – your self-identity, your current situation, whether you are doing something good, what is your rate of progress which is deeply involved in your personal development.
We have learned the importance of self-reflection in personal development. Let us now know how to properly evaluate ourselves through self-reflection. It works best when properly structured.
HOW TO MAKE SELF-REFLECTION A PART OF YOUR PRACTICE?
1) Talk to the three personalities within you: The first thing you need to do is to make the self-reflection a part of your practice; talk to the three personalities present within you, i.e., your dreamer, realist, and critics, and listen to them clearly, then set a specific goal and formulate a strategy. Although mirrors can create the opposite image of you, these three personalities within you will never reverse your reflection. I discussed in the article ‘You will surely be successful if these 3 personalities get agreed‘ how to bring these personalities together.
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2) Work on your self-reflection every day: You must have set goals for your life and they will be written in your diary, then set the milestone that you want to cross every day of each week or every month for your success. In that sense, judge for yourself how much you are progressing and how you are developing.
In doing so, you need to be very honest and constructive so that you never avoid any of your shortcomings or faults. See clearly in front of your mirror what you have set out to do this week or this month and how much you were able to accomplish. Why couldn’t you do all the things that you wanted? What skills do you need to improve? Find them.
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Ask yourself to judge yourself thoroughly, could you have achieved better results? If you can’t get the best results, why not? Where did your challenges come from? How could you overcome those challenges?
This is what happens in the lives of many people who begin to believe in the words of others, in the judgment of the eyes of others, and lead their lives in that way which leads to failure. In these cases justice is never done to him; one’s unique qualities fall away before they are developed. Only through self-reflection, you can properly examine yourself, how much you are improving every day, whether your incomparable qualities are developing properly, and how well you have met your goals. Personal development will happen only when you repeatedly examine yourself through self-reflection.
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