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u Multitasking Ability: Multitasking ability is definitely a must have skill you will be thankful for a successful
career. Often you need to do several things at once. You cannot just work on one project and start looking
for your next project after finishing the first one.

u Discipline: It is the most important skill to keep you on track for successful completion of work at hand. You
should be able to tell yourself when it is time to work, to actually sit behind your desk and to really start
working.

u Communication Skills: Good communication skills help you to convey your opinions to others with clarity.
Many people choose to work independently because they know that they can communicate tactically.

u Negotiating Skills: Those with negotiating skills have the foresightedness and willingness to accommodate
other people and their ideas for the benefit of their businesses.

u Flexibility: There is no project that starts and ends exactly on time. Some clients cancel projects or they
change their priorities and demands.
u Adaptability: It is the quality to adapt your working style to suit the working style of other people who are
working with you. This should be done without compromising with the quality of work.

u Open-mindedness: It is the ability to deal with rejection and not to take it personally. This skill requires a
fearless and never-say-die attitude and open mindedness to face failures yet not get disheartened and start
afresh.
SELF-AWARENESS

Our lives revolve around us and there is always something happening in life. We are what we believe we are.
Self-awareness helps in knowing ourselves better. Self-awareness is to have a clear perception of our personality.
It is to be conscious of our strengths, weaknesses, thoughts, beliefs, motivation, and emotions. Self-awareness
allows us to understand other people, how they perceive us, our attitude and our responses towards them.

Relative Scale
We might quickly assume that we are self-aware, but it is helpful to have a relative scale for awareness. If we
have ever been in a tricky situation, we may have experienced everything happening in slow motion and noticing
details of our thought process and the event. This is a state of heightened awareness. With practice we can
learn to engage these types of heightened states and see new opportunities for interpretations in our thoughts,
emotions, and conversations.

Developing Self-awareness

Self-awareness is developed through practice in focusing our attention on the details of our personality and
behaviour. It cannot be learned from reading a book. When we read a book we are focusing our attention on the
conceptual ideas in the book. With our attention in a book we are practicing not paying attention to our own
behaviour, emotions and personality.
Think of self-awareness as learning to dance in a group. For this we have to synchronize the movements of our
feet, hands and body. We also have to pay attention to what our partner is doing besides focusing on music,
beat, floor space, and other dancers. Just like when we acquaint with dance steps, we become more graceful
similarly when we become more self-aware we instinctively begin to see aspects of our personality and behavior
that we didn’t notice before.
If we have an emotional reaction of anger or frustration, we notice many of the thoughts and small triggers that
build up towards those emotions. We also notice moments when we can change the interpretations in our mind,
or not believe what we are thinking. In this heightened awareness we instinctively make better choices in our
thought process long before an emotional reaction or destructive behaviour.

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