1: What do you hold close to your heart?
Growing up Catholic, I always believed in God, and I considered myself a “good person.” I worked hard every day, and I was considered a success by those who knew me. When I thought about God, which I admit was not that often, I believed that if I did the right things I would go to heaven. Every time I achieved a goal, I expected that achievement to be followed by satisfaction and “happiness.” However, I could feel the emptiness, inside of my heart that belongings and achievements could not seem to fill. Nevertheless, while in high school I tore my ACL, MCL, and Mencius. As an athlete, I was completely devastated since I had to end my athletic career. All the success that I thought I had obtained was …show more content…
This is where personal strengths and weaknesses are derived, and ever individual needs to recognize not only their strengths, but more importantly, their weaknesses. Weaknesses would be the area that we, as a society, need to ask for assistance since we cannot grow and prosper as individuals if we keep making the same mistakes. My weakness for my clinical practice, as an athletic training student, is my lack of practice with a full rehabilitation protocol. This weakness is an evolving process that I will develop into a strength as I perform more rehabilitation protocols. Another weakness that is derived from my personality is my ability to be a ‘yes women’. This trait can be both valuable and damaging to any professional because there is a balance between over and under committing. This personality trait has been my main focus over the last four years. I am activity involved in my university as the president of our athletic training organization, and I have delegated tasks to individuals throughout the year to make sure that I do not get over whelmed. Therefore, finding the perfect balance of commitment is an important trait to possess in order to combat the reality of
Growing up Catholic, I always believed in God, and I considered myself a “good person.” I worked hard every day, and I was considered a success by those who knew me. When I thought about God, which I admit was not that often, I believed that if I did the right things I would go to heaven. Every time I achieved a goal, I expected that achievement to be followed by satisfaction and “happiness.” However, I could feel the emptiness, inside of my heart that belongings and achievements could not seem to fill. Nevertheless, while in high school I tore my ACL, MCL, and Mencius. As an athlete, I was completely devastated since I had to end my athletic career. All the success that I thought I had obtained was …show more content…
This is where personal strengths and weaknesses are derived, and ever individual needs to recognize not only their strengths, but more importantly, their weaknesses. Weaknesses would be the area that we, as a society, need to ask for assistance since we cannot grow and prosper as individuals if we keep making the same mistakes. My weakness for my clinical practice, as an athletic training student, is my lack of practice with a full rehabilitation protocol. This weakness is an evolving process that I will develop into a strength as I perform more rehabilitation protocols. Another weakness that is derived from my personality is my ability to be a ‘yes women’. This trait can be both valuable and damaging to any professional because there is a balance between over and under committing. This personality trait has been my main focus over the last four years. I am activity involved in my university as the president of our athletic training organization, and I have delegated tasks to individuals throughout the year to make sure that I do not get over whelmed. Therefore, finding the perfect balance of commitment is an important trait to possess in order to combat the reality of