Hi and welcome back to how do you show up practicing emotional intelligence? The topic for today's lesson is how does your self awareness show up? Self Awareness is the ability to understand your feelings and the effects they have on your performance. The first question is how do you feel pay attention to your body is very important to name the emotion using what you know about the mood meter that we covered in an earlier lesson? Can you name how you feel? Practice naming the emotion then investigate?

Why do I feel this way? What is the cause of the emotion? This is something that I can control tune into your body. So you understand what is it trying to tell you and how is it reacting to certain circumstance, think of situations where you have reacted in a way that you could visibly see that you were impacting someone else, either positively or negatively. Understand that All of this impacts how you are perceived by other people. Are you aware of whether or not your message is being received in the way that you intended?

How do you confirm that? Do you ask questions like, would you like me to repeat any of the information that I just shared? How can I help? All of these are ways to help the other person realize that it's okay to ask questions. It's okay to still be curious. And then on the other hand, how do you make sure that you understand others?

Are you comfortable and asking questions if you feel that you maybe miss something or that you need more information? This requires that you know yourself and you have enough confidence to say it's okay to ask a question. It's okay that I don't know everything and it's okay for me to say I need a little bit more information. So let's talk about accurate self assessment and what it involves know your strengths and weakness. This is limitations. ask for feedback.

Be prepared to handle feedback. If it's not totally positive, have a sense of humor and a perspective. have an open mind so that you can reflect upon the feedback that you're getting and learn from your experiences be open to change. These are all ways to have an accurate self assessment of your self awareness as your class project for this lesson, journal about your emotions throughout the day times where you did not show up exactly as you would have liked. How do you think your behavior is perceived by other people? Can you think of a situation that you would handle differently in the future and I'll see you in the next