Personal Narrative: My Top Strengths Of Myself

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There are many strengths that I could describe for myself, but my three top strengths are believing in myself, adopting lifelong learning, and discovering self-motivation. I feel that believing in myself is the most important thing in life. You need the right mindset when it comes to many things that a person does in their lives. I feel if I do not encourage myself nobody else will. I live in a world where a lot people are out here for their selves and could care less how I am feeling. It takes believe in myself to keep pushing to go farther in life. My mom taught me as being a black woman that it will be challenges that I will have to face. The only way I can face them and not fail is to keep believing in myself. One thing I have learned is …show more content…
My top weaknesses are mastering self-management, gaining self-awareness, and developing emotional intelligence. I feel mastering self-management has been one of my biggest weakness. It has cause me to miss out spending time with friends and family because I had overbooked myself. I always put my homework off because it was due later on in the semester. This has caused me to stress out or even burn out because now I have to cram in everything that is due. You can tell when I am stressed out because I start scratching off my eyebrows. I feel like my best work comes when I under pressure but it does not always work. Gaining self-awareness is another one of my problems because I do not always recognize when things are not going right. I feel that even when something is wrong that you should do everything in your ability to fix it. Somethings that has hinder me because I did not know when to let go. I have many goals that I want to achieve, but sometimes I deal with the wrong people which can cause more harm than help. I realized that I like to see the best in everyone even if they did something wrong to me and this has cause problems in my life. I do have a problem with developing my emotional intelligence. When I get angry with someone I do not think before I say something. When it comes doing my homework or going out it depends on when that assignment is due. I will wait to the last minute it does not matter what …show more content…
My procrastination is my biggest problem because I always wait to the last minute to get things done even though I knew weeks in advance. I just feel like my best work come from me being under pressure. This has affected me in many different ways which include being stressed out, lack of free time, and I even get mad at myself. When it comes to my writing, I have trouble with corrections that need to be made to it. I like to write, but I usually do not get it checked over and it hurts my grade. My study skills are horrible. I usually do not study until the last minute based on what type of test it can be. I usually have all different types of distraction that are happening when I

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