To lead and manage
yourself, you’ve got to develop the 7 components of intrapersonal intelligence.
Intrapersonal Intelligence is simply the ability to understand, manage and lead
yourself well. The 7 components of intrapersonal intelligence form the foundation
for personal and career success.
In order to succeed in
your personal and career life, you have to know yourself. Somebody said, “ Know
Thyself”. You can’t lead yourself, without understanding yourself and you can’t
understand yourself if you don’t study yourself and finally you can’t study
yourself without the 7 components of intrapersonal intelligence.
So what the heck are the
7 components of intrapersonal intelligence?
1. Self-Awareness:
this is simply how well you know yourself. It’s you ability to study and know
your strengths and weakness. Highly successful people have a high sense of
awareness. Because they know who they are, what they like, what they don’t like
and where they’re going in life. It guides them to lead themselves well.
2. Self-Reflection:
To know yourself, you have to review your thoughts, intentions, feelings and
abilities. By constantly examining yourself, you’re able to know who you are
and this help in your daily decision making.
3. Self-Control:
This is the ability to make yourself do the right thing, whether you feel like
doing it or not. You control and discipline your feelings and simply do the
right thing.
4. Self-Motivation:
To achieve success in life, you need to be motivated from within to do things.
You need a vision and a purpose to drive you to do things. Purpose oriented
people are highly self motivated people who become leaders and entrepreneurs in
the world.
5. Self-Confidence:
To do what must be done, you need confidence and bravery. When you know who you
are, you’re brave and that gives you the courage to excel in whatever you’re
trying to do.
6. Self-Esteem:
Many people in life look down on themselves with inferiority complex. The think
and feel that they’re not “Good enough!” So they don’t achieve much in life. So
achieve greater levels of success, you must develop your self esteem and have
superiority complex.
7. Self-Responsibility:
If you know yourself, you have self-confidence. These give you the ability wake
up and take full responsibility for your life. You make no excuses, you blame
no one, but what you do is to simply take responsibility and change your life
and circumstances.
By developing the 7
components of intrapersonal intelligence, you will build the foundation for
your personal and career success. This will give you the winning edge in your
life and in everything you do.
Written By Francis Sabutey,
Content Writer & Maketer,
Accra-Ghana.
