Importance Of Understanding My Self

The journey of understanding my self has begun when I started studying oversea for a master degree. Fortunately, I have chosen the managing self and relationships unit in my second semester. The unit is just beyond my expectation. I would have never thought that the material we learn in class could be applied in our life. Students are instructed to choose some topics or instruments that would probably the most effective for their selves. In my view, I prefer to use VIA Strength Inventory which will enable us to identify our strengths. I refer my preference to Buckingham (2001), Harter, Schmidt et al. (2002) explain that a company could get an efficient performance by giving effort in managing employee’s strengths rather than weaknesses. While …show more content…
According to Baumeister and Mick (2002) that both self-regulation and self-control are the ability of someone to resist or react in a situation. One of my biggest temptation that I would like to work on is to reduce my sleep time from eight hours to seven hours a day and allocate it for studying. Even though, it seems to be quite a simple thing to do but in fact it is really difficult in practice. My best record in a week that I can resist to study rather than to sleep early at night or to wake up early in the morning is two to three days a week. My target for this challenge is to allocate one more hour for studying up to 5 days a week while the two other days which are the weekend, I would prefer to allocate them for relax times. So far, I have not specifically set up any activities or action plan regarding this habit. However, in a daily basis, usually I just try to push myself by activating the alarm to wake me up early in the morning. It can be seen from my experience by relying on the alarm clock, the successful percentage during a week is only …show more content…
He says that because willpower could deplete, so it is important to exercise it by completing an easy activity from time to time (Baumeister 2014). For example, I could relate it to the challenge of reducing my sleep time and allocate it for my study time. And about the New Year resolution, he suggests people to work on a particular activity sequentially rather than to work on several resolutions in a time. In this context, I believe that to focus on my single challenge in a period of time would allow me to have a bigger successful percentage rather than I set too many activities to succeed in a time. Then, the next thing for me to do is to set up a clear duration on how long I should work on this particular activity and what result that I may expect in the end of the activity. However, I should consider of some alternative methods of increasing my willpower when my first plan would not work. Additionally, I could use my first experience of working on my sleep time to design another activity regardless my first activity would be successful or fail. Therefore, I think it would be important to keep a journal that I could use for recording my daily experience during the activity. The daily journal would contain about what situation I face on that day and what is the