Self-awareness is about knowing who we are and how things affect us.  It involves intentionality – being present and alert.  We need to be alert and present to what is happening around us but this can become over-whelming in present times.  There is so much to hear, so much to see and so much to process.  How do we choose what to focus on?  How do we make sense of so much information coming to us from every angle and sift out relevance? 

Because we are all completely different, we see the same things, hear the same things but process them differently.  What we make of information, what we take in, and how we use them effectively depends on how much we understand ourselves. We optimize our performance by understanding and maximizing our knowledge of “self” or individuality.