Be a better person by discovering the importance of self-awareness and understanding how our values, thoughts, and feelings influence our beliefs and behaviors.
Jill and Mary introduce Girls Mentorship, highlight their energetic style, and reveal social-emotional learning (SEL) as their 'secret sauce,' announcing that they'll focus on self-awareness in this video.
They define self-awareness as knowing your character, feelings, motives, and desires, and explain that it helps you choose how to show up rather than being driven by external forces.
Mary and Jill describe using core values as a North Star and give concrete presence behaviors—like eye contact and putting phones away—that help ensure interactions leave others better off.
They give specific micro-challenges—acknowledging a barista, letting someone ahead in a pickup line, and responding differently to unexpected challenges—to help viewers practice showing up as the person they want to be.
The hosts offer encouragement and remind viewers they already are the person they aspire to be, preview the next video on self-management, and close with well wishes and goodbyes.
Hey contrary fam, we're Jill and Mary, the founders of Girls Mentorship, a personal growth and development company for teen and tween girls. Don't scroll. Don't scroll. If you're not a teen girl, that is A-OK because this message also pertains to you. If you tuned into our previous video, then that one of the absolute best compliments that Jill and I get on a daily basis is about our energy. It's how we show up. We are the literal definition of people, people, and we consider it to be one of our superpowers.
Because of this, we often get asked if we can lend some of that energy out to others. And though our hope is always that our energy helps others rise to the temperature that we're setting, We would much, much rather teach others how to do it themselves so they don't need our help. So, drum roll please. Our secret sauce is social-emotional learning, aka St. smarts. Today, we want to define the first component of SEL, which is self-awareness and how we can use it in our everyday lives. Self-awareness is the capacity to consciously know and understand one's own character, feelings, motives, and desires.
This is important because it helps you choose how you want to show up in the world as opposed to letting the world choose for you, which I'm not going to ask for a show of hands because I know we're all guilty of letting that happen, some of us more frequently than others, which is why this is such an incredible opportunity to check in. How Mary and I aim to show up in this world really stems from our core values, the things that matter the most to us, and using those as our North Star. For example, something that is incredibly important to us is making sure that every single interaction we have with someone leaves that individual better than how we found them.
This means setting the intention to be fully present in that moment. Our bodies are turned and open towards them. We're making eye contact and our phones are not in our hands. This might sound like it's common knowledge, but we all know that we're living in the age of distraction, so common knowledge isn't necessarily common practice. This small yet incredibly impactful act touches on the character traits we're actively working on developing so that we can ensure we're showing up as our best selves within this world.
Your challenge is to think about who you are showing up as now versus who you want to show up as in the future and start practicing showing up as that person now. The next time you go to Starbucks, practice positively acknowledging your barista. The next time you go pick up your child from school, let somebody else get in front of you in the school pickup line. And the next time something challenges you in an unexpected way, practice showing up in a different way. Look at you. Look at you! You're declaring who you want to be.
Newsflash though, you already are that person. Now go be it for the world. We not only need you, but you are worthy of becoming the best, brightest, and most confident version of yourself. Stay tuned because in the next video, we'll be diving into the concept of self-management. Wherever you're tuning in from today, we hope you have the best rest of your day. We'll see you in the next video. Bye everyone.
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