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THE SELF-MASTERY OVERVIEW
Self-Mastery is the deliberate practice of continuous learning and willingness to develop and grow oneself. It is the desire for self-development and can only occur with self-enquiry and self-discovery. Self-development increases Emotional Intelligence and can be evident as follows:
- It describes your ability to observe, perceive, understand, and manage your own motivations, feelings, and concerns.
- It is the ability to observe, perceive, understand, and respond to the motivations, feelings, and concerns of others.
- It is the ability to blend reason with emotion.
It can also be described as inner or intrapersonal intelligence. - The heart of Self Mastery is self-awareness, knowing yourself, and having accurate personal insights through self-observation.
- Self-Mastery explains why despite equal intellectual capacity, training or experience, some people excel at leadership while others of the same caliber, don’t.
Dimensions of Self-Mastery:
- Identification - Identifying my emotions. Identifying emotions of others
- Understanding - Understanding my emotions. Understanding the emotions of others
- Expression - Expressing my emotions. Listening to others express their emotions
- Regulation- Regulating my emotions. Influencing other to regulate their emotions
- Optimisation – Optimising how I use my emotions. Optimising how others use their emotions
Self-Mastery Competencies:
- Self- Awareness – Capacity of self-observation, conscious of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours, looking ‘as’ and ‘at’ yourself and your worldviews
- Self-Regard - Noticing self-perception and accessing positive self-regard. Valuing your worth without recognising skills, competencies, status, and possessions.
- Personal Vision – Setting your purpose and courageously actualising your intentions and goals with self-efficacy.
- Self-Responsibility – Demonstrating self-authority and ownership of actions, words, emotions, and thoughts. Accepting responsibility without judging.
- Self-Motivation – Utilising available resources to inspire action and results. Access the highest intentions to actualise desired outcomes.
- Self-Management – Manage and control thoughts, emotions, and behaviours under all situations, conditions, and environments.
- Personal Influence - Social expertness and social intelligence. Ability to lead, influence, and inspire self and others.
- Relational Maturity - Level of emotional and conversational intelligence. Ability to practice empathy, consider multi-perspectives, and communicate them.
- Responsiveness to Feedback - Perception towards and reaction to feedback and criticism. Willingness to integrate feedback and deliberately develop oneself.
- Personal Integrity – Integrating personal and social morals to purposely live and demonstrate personal values through all actions and behaviours.
- Systemic Integration –Integrating all areas of development and deliberately applying to self and practicing the application into all areas of life.
- Lifelong Learning - Developing a hunger to learn, grow, and change and adopting a continuous commitment to personal development.