Managing your thoughts with a self awareness list

Life is made up of moments where you’ll be faced with trying and learning new things.

In those moments, you can experience a mix of emotions. There’s positive feelings like excitement and determination, and then there’s negative feelings like doubt and fear.

It’s natural to feel negative emotions when trying something new, but it’s important to not let those feelings hold you back from getting started. If you throw in the towel before you give it a go, you’ll never grow.

Instead try to tap into those positive emotions and let them fill you up. When you do that, you’re turning on your growth mindset, and that’s how you move ahead. At the end of the day, no one ever achieved anything by telling themselves they weren’t good enough and calling it quits.

But…we get that sometimes it’s easier said than done to switch your growth mindset on and ignore those negative feelings.

But if you don’t acknowledge the things you struggle with, you’re ignoring opportunities to work on those things and improve.

You might want to write the answers down on a piece of paper and stick it somewhere obvious in your room, or write it down on your phone.

Over time, you can keep looking back at your self awareness list so you can mentally check-in and see where you’re at. You may find that some of the things that once made you scared and stressed no longer do. Maybe you’ll find that you need to update some of your answers.

If you’re feeling like your fears and doubts are holding you back (and you can’t get past them), reach out for help. Speak with someone you can trust like a teacher, your guidance officer, a parent or another trusted adult to get their thoughts and support.