In the first dimension of Centered Leadership, awareness, you need to learn what is happening around you and what is happening to you. Your awareness can be developed in several ways including meditation, friends, feedback, journaling, emotional triggers, or just letting it emerge as you experience different situations in your life. There’s another way that’s more effective, insightful, and sustainable and that’s by becoming aware of what is meaningful to you, and why it’s meaningful to you. Have you ever realized that certain things interest you and other things do not? Have you ever wondered why certain things interest you? Everything about you is based on your personality functioning, and this is what drives your interests. Personality includes four delving levels that lead to your centeredness. You need to understand and utilize the strengths and weaknesses of your temperament—this is not the same as strengths or weaknesses based on your KAASE (i.e., knowledge, abilities, attitudes, skills ,and experiences). The utilization of temperament strengths and weaknesses provides an opportunity for building strength on strength development of your character (learned behavior) shaping habits that are aligned with your temperament strengths, and practicing having an accurate attitude with how you think about yourself, people, and the circumstances you encounter in your life.
