Awareness and consciousness first. If you visualize your weakness and contrast this with what you want to be (mental contrasting), then your huge subconscious mind, your lower emotional brain, sees this visualization as well and reacts with emotions and instinctual drives. If mental contrasting is done right, your powerful unconscious emotional and instinctual brain gets fed up with putting up with your own weaknesses, and you can find motivation to drive you to change. The strong unconscious emotional motivation to override a neurosis is more powerful than any conscious rational knowing of what you should do. This is a will to conquer yourself. The will to self-overcome.
