What does self-awareness mean? To most people it just means to be conscious of your actions and what is going on around you, yet to a mentor it means much more. To a mentor yes it does mean this, but it also means to know this and with this knowledge, use it to help others. For mentors, self-awareness is a necessary tool because to help others, you must first understand yourself.  In the reading for this week it talked about how understanding yourself can not only improve how you feel about yourself, but can give you a sense of empowerment as we realize that we have the ability to improve or own circumstances. With this there are six types of self-awareness: intellectual, resource, physical, emotional, social, spiritual. While all of these are important, mostly one is more important to a person and is a big driving force. It also talked about the self-system and how self-esteem, self-concept, and self-efficacy are all related and effect each other. With all these tools you may ask well how do I use these to help myself change or improve? The answer to this is that most everything that we do as humans is out of habit. The way to improve or change is that once we are self-aware of our actions and etc, we can use them in everyday situations to help get practice. Over time we will change, its almost training yourself.
        While in class we talked about a lot of these subjects. We all went around and shared some insight about ourselves and where we get our drive in life. A lot of these stories were quite private an I want to thank everyone for opening up and sharing. I don't know for everyone, but for me it was actually quite hard to open up about mine, it was an emotional time for me so telling everyone made me a little emotional about it. In response to the blog question, my role as a mentor and helping them become self-aware is to lead them down the right path. A lot students may come in already knowing themselves yet others will have no idea. I feel like I can help them by talking with them and telling my story and tell them how it changed me. I can ask them simple questions that will get them thinking like, what is it that is most important in your life? What would you do to keep that thing in your life? Questions like this can really make you think about your life and what you want out of it. I want to thank Anthony and Beth for doing a great job. Thanks for reading! Have a good one, out.