Doug Lennick and Chuck Wachendorfer describe a self-awareness exercise: compare where you are now to your ideal self, notice the gap, and accept that you'll fall short sometimes. Most people don't even realize when they're off track.
So we teach an exercise to improve self-awareness, and you can compare, like, as Doug is saying, how am I really, like, right now, and how do I want to be ideally? And sometimes I notice how I really fall short of who I hope to be ideally.
And so you explain to your son, as an example, I might not be my ideal self for a couple hours. Nobody's ideal all the time. But a lot of people don't know when they aren't. See, the difference that you have, it all starts with self-awareness.
