Self awareness!

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 Day 5🌴

One of the major things that guides everything pertaining to a brand, business or personal is self awareness.

  Self awareness in basic terms is knowing what works for you and what doesn't. It is what makes you productive or makes you the best version of your self, what you enjoy doing and how well you can do something or to what length you would go to achieve a particular feat.

  

   Self awareness guides a lot of decisions you would make as a brand from your identity, contents to stakeholders.

For example, can you write contents for your brand? Do you want to write for your brand? or would you rather someone else do it? Do you prefer creating video contents or designing?


What's your coping mechanism when stressed? Can you work under pressure? Are you the planning type? Or is impromtu the way? Answering these questions will inform your time management.


Another sets of questions you should have answers to is, who can I work with? Can I make my brand decisions on my own? How do I want to position my self that would suit my personality and my audience? 


Being aware would inform if you would have to manage your finance, administration, consumer service e.t.c by yourself or you would need to recruit workers to work with you.


Being self aware would answer these and a lot more other questions and would help you to avoid falling into pitholes as you build your brand.

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