Awareness makes a difference

Awareness makes a difference -
Recently I have been through a shibir whose sole purpose was "awareness".
Awareness is the first step to success in anything be it personal peace, work etc.
What changes when you are aware?
Its not that you will stop making mistakes once you are aware. But you will learn from incidences, small incidences big lessons. For e.g. you get angry due to some incidence, if you are unaware, you will mostly miss the reason you became angry(I am not saying this will stop your anger next time as well). But if you are aware, it will be clear to you that the anger was a waste of time, emotion and happened for a reason which is not within your control. Then you suddenly realize that then its not worth getting angry. And we already know the effect of realization at all levels. But this realization will have an immediate impact.