Chapter 29
Self-Observation & Self-Analysis
CONSTRUCTION STAGE 4.1 Security
SAL MODEL STAGE 4.1 Self-Evaluation
CONSTRUCTION STAGE 4.2 Structural reviews, safety checks, and quality controls
SAL MODEL STAGE 4.2 Self-Analysis
As a self-action leader, YOU need to similarly observe your own thoughts, speech, actions, attitudes, and beliefs—and their consequences—so that you can then analyze them to see if they are moving you closer towards, or farther away from, your vision, mission, values, standards, and goals.
These ongoing observations and analyses are essential to assessing and adjusting your approach to life, work, and relationships.
Self-Observation is defined as: Taking thoughtful notice of your thoughts, speech, actions, attitudes, and beliefs. And Self-Analysis is defined as: The thoughtful examination of your thoughts, speech, actions, attitudes, and beliefs to check for their alignment (or misalignment) with your vision, mission, values, standards, and goals.
SELF-OBSERVATION
Taking thoughtful notice of your thoughts, speech, actions, attitudes, and beliefs.
SELF-ANALYSIS
The thoughtful examination of your thoughts, speech, actions, attitudes, and beliefs to check for their alignment (or misalignment) with your vision, mission, values, standards, and goals.
Self-Analysis further involves taking stock of your results in various life arenas and then adapting your ACTION PLANS as needed in a never-ending, upward cycle of personal progress and Existential Growth. It is similar to having a quality control expert or facility manager inventory and inspect a skyscraper and its property before submitting a report with recommendations for changes, improvements, renovations, replacements, and upgrades.
Similar processes take place with all other aspects of a skyscraper's functions and operations, which will usually involve a variety of different teams, departments, and organizations and/or companies.
For one full day (or week), carefully observe everything you think about, say, and do. Record these thoughts, speech, and actions in your journal. Then, conduct an analytic review in your own mind to see if the things you thought, said, and did are the kind and degree of things you would like to have thought, said, and done for that day (or week). If they were not, record what changes you would like to make the following day (or week) to bring you closer to achieving your goals.
Conduct a comprehensive Self-Analysis by mentally traveling through the Eight (8) Life Arenas of SAL (Constitutional, Spiritual, Physical, Mental, Emotional, Social, Moral, and Financial) in preparation to answer the following questions.
How are you currently doing in each life arena?
Which areas are currently your greatest strengths?
Which areas are currently your greatest weaknesses?
How would you prioritize these Eight Life Arenas in terms of which areas need the most work right now?
—Dr. JJ
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