Self-analysis for success: recognizing strengths and weaknesses with mindfulness

A professional or a personal one Crisis requires one thing above all: honesty with yourself. Think carefully about what part you played in it, because this is the only way you can do something better next time.

Think about the crisis

Because if you only allow yourself peace, do not think about the crisis and do not change anything, there is the risk that everything will be the same again in the next job.

Even if it sounds unpleasant: To find out in the long term from the crisis and not immediately to stumble into the next, it only helps to deal with what happened. To avoid the danger of repetition, you need to recalibrate the crisis.

Answering the following questions can be helpful:

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• What exactly happened?
• How did it happen?
• Which aspects of my behavior contributed to the crisis?
• What could trigger a crisis again?
• Which of my old skills have helped me?
• Which new skills have proven successful?
• How can I deal with crises in the future?

Write the answers to these Ask up for yourself. Or talk about it with your partner or friends. However, there is a risk that they will have too subjective a view of things.

Look for help

It is better to get one Training as a neutral interlocutor. In discussions, you can analyze which part of the crisis may be objectively difficult circumstances and for which part you were responsible yourself.

As for the difficult circumstances, it helps for them Future, if you yourself Honestly ask why you tolerated them in the first place. Or if you didn't defend and protect yourself too little and offered yourself as a "victim".

Write a letter

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In order to clarify these issues, it may also be helpful at this stage toExecutive or write another letter to your ex-boss that you never send. Tell him what he or she thinks about you Opinions after doing wrong, but also share your thoughts on your share of responsibility.

If you realize that you can't do it because the resentment or the pain is still too deep, leave the letter for the time being. Start a new letter later, after a few days or weeks for sure will already sound a little more forgiving. Why here from reconciliation the Rede is? This is the prerequisite for closing the crisis. This is the only way you can prevent your thoughts from becoming more and more preoccupied with your boss.

Humor helps

Even if it may sound a bit strange at first: One portion Humour can help find the necessary Distance for the psychological "processing" of this painful experience.

Try to see the weird side of your setback by exaggerating the characters - both your own and your superiors - the next time you tell this story to friends. It is not only much funnier, but also clearer.

What is your share?

After a crisis, when you reflect on what part you played in it, you will learn a lot about your Personality and thus also about your strengths and weaknesses learn. In psychological jargon, this is called counterfactual thinking or simply as a saying: You only learn from mistakes!

On the one hand, this applies to the technical level - maybe you are not as creative as you thought, but can analyze and to organize. But you also learn on a personal and social level.

What the crisis shows you

Perhaps it is only through the crisis that you realize how in need of harmony or perfectionist you actually are. This knowledge will help you, on the one hand, to deal better with these weaknesses in the future and, on the other hand, to assess in good time where it is Problems could give.

Conclusion: After a crisis, of course, you need relaxation and often a longer vacation. But you also have to constructive think about the crisis and think about what you can do better so that you don't fall into the same trap again after the recovery!

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