Many people might have the following questions: What is self-awareness and self-esteem? Why are the two so important in our daily live? What can one do to increase his or her self esteem as well as self awareness? However, before we answer those questions, we might want to take a look at the meaning of both self-esteem and self-awareness. According to the website http://www.wikipedia.com/, the definition of self-esteem is a person's overall self-appraisal of their own worth. Which in simple terms means how one presents and carries himself with confidence in the way he communicates and deals with others. Some of the many benefits of having a high self-esteem would enable one to have a more meaningful relationship with his loved ones, able to communicate and relate better with others, recover from setbacks and failures more efficiently than others. Not only that, a person with high self-esteem can influence those around him, resulting in them having an increased self-esteem as well. Examples of such individuals would be managers, CEOs, teachers, lecturers etc. Ways to inprove one's self-esteem would be to engage in more activities with others, have confidence in yourself and always look on the bright side of life. By doing so i am sure that in no time, even a hermit will become a more open, upright out-going person. Next, we have self-awareness. In order to understand what can we do to improve self-awareness, we have to know the exact meaning of it. Again, with reference to http://www.wikipedia.com/, self-awareness is the explicit understanding that one exists, which also means having good knowledge and judgement about oneself as well as the world he/she is in. The importance of having self-awareness would allow one to present himself appropriately and create the important first impression that he wants to leave in people, communicate and interact with others more effectively, most importantly, working towards what u aimed to be and many more. Some ways of enhancing self-awareness would be to engage in daily reflection, open yourself to others, interacting more with other people etc. Now for my reflection. To me, I feel that both self-esteem and self-awareness are inter-linked, and that one cannot exist without the other. Reason being that both deals with the same person, and that inorder to have a high self-esteem, one must have high self-awareness first, by understanding oneself, can he carry himself with pride(self esteem). After learning about the two in my LMS module, I have understood the importance and usefulness of both qualities and will use it in future. Therefore i would like to conclude that in order to acomplish and make it big in future, i feel that self esteem and self awareness can definately help out a great deal, and that we must never underestimate the two. I wish that everyone will be happy always. ^^