Personal Narrative: My Top Five Strengths

My top five strengths are: analytical, relator, discipline, individualization, and harmony. I feel like the StrengthsFinder Assessment hit the nail on the head with these as I can see most of them in my life nearly everyday. Firstly, I see the analytical strength come up a lot in my life. I often weigh the information and data to find the best course of action. As a result, I have been able to make decisions confidently and well. Many approach me for advice when they are attempting to make their decisions because I can offer them sound logic and reasoning for a suggested path that they should embark. I also can offer information for various scenarios that may occur based on that decision. This causes many to trust what I have to say and …show more content…
Conflict makes me incredibly uncomfortable and I often don’t know what how best to solve the situation. To clarify, I dislike conflict when it gets incredibly personal and turns into fighting; not conflict of ideas that is constructive to the overall outcome of the situation. I usually try to avoid conflict all together by staging the situation in such a way that conflict will, hopefully, not occur. When I was younger and my parents would fight I would just leave the room and I still do this today. My typical approach to avoiding is to stage the situation in such a way that people can’t butt …show more content…
Thus, I could effectively delete any that also covered those three things. I would like to explain why I didn’t choose family and instead chose friendship. On both my mom’s and dad’s sides of the family I am the youngest grandchild. My older brother, who is three years older, is the second youngest. Our next youngest cousin was at least three years older than him and six years older than me. This caused him and I to not be very close with our cousins. We were too young to relate to them so as a result we didn’t. When it comes to our aunts and uncles it took us a little longer to realize that we are not that close with them. For me it happened this passed summer when we were all up at my aunt’s cabin for my grandmother’s birthday. Everyone was laughing and seemingly having a great time. Tom and I both had to work, so he and I left early. When we got into the car we started to discuss all of the things we noticed that we hadn’t noticed before about my dad’s side of the family. For one thing we noticed that some of my dad’s sisters were kind of mean to my mom and my brother with some of the off-handed comments they would make. We also realized that we differed drastically in our societal views. Due to this we do not talk much to our extended family which makes me not value it. This may not be a very good reason to not value family but, it is good enough for me. However, I value friendship because I think of friends as the family that