Self Improvement Action Plan

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---Self Assessment and Improvement Action Plan

I began to know myself better, a 15-year old girl as a result of registering in this course. I worked through my 7th grade in China and came last year to attend the 9th grade in the States. The change is enormous as well as the challenge. Fortunately I had this opportunity of learning psychology. Below is by self assessment and improvement action plan.

Growing up as the only child in a family full of love and sympathy I feel happy and content generally speaking. However low self-identity makes me not knowing who I am. In others’ eyes I am a calm and quiet girl, smart and mature, sometimes hold-in, making me hard to be approached, let alone becoming friends by consciously or unconsciously distancing
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My defensive style is avoiding and reaction formation. The things that I like most about my personality are: I don’t hate anything, I change a lot over time, I think I am lucky and I am easily influenced. The reason of that is these characters makes me believe I can be much better improved. The things I like least about my personality are: I have low EQ and I am not being positive about myself. The reason of that is I need approval of others but low EQ stands in the way, making me look weird. Other people’s approval encourages me, provides me opportunities to build self-confidence by setting a good model for me. He or she also need to give me deadlines and criticism along the road. I just need to imagine meeting the other me, we will be friends easily at first rather than hating each other. In a school situation on any sort of exam or competition I like to know hwo well I do relate to everyone else. People are bing competitive, nice, hard-working, smart, a good sense of humor and helpful, tolerant. The reason of that is I am easier to be influenced by the environment. For low EQ I should be mindful when I am around people. Build self-confidence. Practice makes the best and read more books about it. In a work situation I believe it is the same as the school situation for me. It is also OK if someone is mean, selfish and jealous. I am really straight-forward and thus hurting people’s feeling but I totally do not mean it. It is my problem that I have low EQ and low self-confidence. Also I am ready to take responsibilities with no

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