Personal Strengths and Weaknesses

Personal Strengths and weaknesses

Writing about my personal strengths is a challenging task that requires me to focus on the strong points that make up my character. While, however; speaking on my weaknesses, tend not to be such a problematical task. Trying not to speak in such a modest way about oneself, yet present an encouraging outlook on my strengths, require me to examine what skills makeup the positive force that drives my everyday being. However, to attack my weaknesses, is to challenge myself to take control over the areas that require some redefining of certain skills in order to achieve ultimate success in life. My life is not defined by weaknesses, but more so the makeup of my personal strengths. While I may lack strong skills expressing myself, tend to shy away from the limelight, and should learn to focus directly at what is being stated more clearly, I do communicate on a decent level, tend to be a loyal, giving person, and seem to be a clear thinking problem solver.

One of my weaknesses is self expression. I do feel I lack the ability strongly, forcefully express myself. This could partly come from what I consider as having a weak ability in spelling. More times than few, I know just what I am trying to express but I must find an alternative way to write on paper. Being a weak speller does no hinder me within a verbal conversation, but can slow down my thought process when attempting to communicate those same feelings on paper. While my understanding of the language being communicated comes across quite clear, I find that when faced with new verbiage, I store the utterance for future use after I retrieve the correct spelling.

Another weakness is my willingness to stand alone. I know this is a weakness because more times than often, one must depend on other people to help guide them through life as well as business. I must learn to open myself to other though patterns, other expressions, other influences, all which require more development as well as more interaction with other sources to fully achieve a more sound base. "Our impressions of a person are often influenced by our knowledge of the groups to which that person belongs" (Gurwitz & Dodge, 1977, p. 495).You are the company you keep. If you constantly mingle with those associated with known questionable activity, your will also be perceived as such. Consequently, if the company you keep are more resourceful with their time, and more positively significant in your well-being, this is sure to have a greater influence as well as a positive outlook and structure of yourself. Instead of attempting to tackle life's obstacles, and business alone, I must work to interact with a more diverse group while attempting to reframe from any negative influences.

Lastly, in an attempt to overcome my weaknesses, I must learn to focus clearly on the tasks at hand. I realize that when I feel something is repetitive, or non-amusing, I become less interested. My thoughts begin to wonder, and I loose focus. This can be a problem, because I then to lose some information that was attempting to be conveyed to me. My lack of focus can be at minimal if I always concentrate the message on an open-minded level, as a new venture, rather than to feel that it information is of little help to me because I may have, or not, heard the input before hand. I must learn to sincerely give my undivided attention in an effort to fully understand the material that is be conveyed.

Speaking on my personal strengths is to speak on my loyal and giving disposition. I believe loyalty is a trait that defines a person when he or she is in tune with the characteristic of dependability as well