What Are Your Personal Strengths

My personal strengths and weakness varies. I find that my perfectionist attitude is not only my strengths but also one of my weaknesses, actually a very big weakness at time. What I have had to learn to accept is failure. I had a very hard time with that as a teenage, but also as an adult. I tend to be very hard on others and myself when It involves failure or not perfectly done. In my personal life at home if I have set a goal say for instance on Saturday morning everyone gets up at 8:00 a.m., no one can eat until the house is completely clean. My kids don't agree with me of course but to me when you sit down that's it you will never have that energy to continue. Also at work, I have 4 student workers and would love to say that I feel
as though I can depend on them, but I still must review anything that I have ask them to do for me. I guess you can call that "CYA". With my learning team well sad to say I have a lot to learn about them and working with them. One of the improvements I would like to make to my team is that I would like it if we communicated more. I know everyone has a very busy schedule, but to me it is also important to communicate. I use this same them with my family and work. I will say time and time again at home and at meetings please communicate with me and the other members of the family and office so that everyone is on the same line.

One of my other strengths is dependability.
Sometimes so dependable that it too becomes a weakness. For instance any and every person that knows me know that they can call on me at the last minute and I will do to the best of my ability what needs to be done. Well that situation gets me stretched out so much that I forget to check after myself to be sure that everything is done in order. Another weakness for me that having a hard time admitting when I am wrong, I have grown over the past few years to understand that it is ok to admit when you are wrong or when you have made a mistake. This weakness also effects me personally, at work and even the learning team, although we have not been together that long. The action plan that I have been working on is having a better understanding that its ok when something does not go exactly the way you would like for it to go. I know to some that sounds a little childish, but even as a child I have been told that I did not like failure. I have learned to accept some things as they are and realize there are things that you just can't change. With my kids I have had to realize that some things are not as important to them as they are to me. Dealing with work, home and even in the church there are many different types of people with different types of personalities, no one personality is the same and that's a big a big deal when you are with a lot of people on a daily
bases.

Another one of my action plans for improvement is to keep notes on specific subjects that are of importance to myself.
The note keeping will better help me to organize and use time wisely, instead of having to think and restart once I loose track or get off track. I feel that this plan out of any plan will work better for me. Instructions and reading are better tools for me to plan anything dealing with work, home, school, and other projects I may have going on. I would like to commend my learning team, because although we may not communicate on a daily bases we do reach each other and respond. I feel that taking this online will help me deal with my strengths and
weaknesses.

Taking this on line is a challenge for me, what I enjoy most is that our assignments and projects all have due dates so that you know what kind of time you have to work with and what needs to be done before that time. It is also helping me with using my time wisely, I have had to alter my schedule some at home, work and family time but in the long run it will all be worth it.